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Rue de la Lune

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Juana Robles

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Ireland | 2022

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Runtime/Duración: 1:29:13

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To be born in a family is to be possessed. The Healer, the Widow, the Lover, the Jester and the Artist represent in Rue de la Lune a female household out of space and time going through dreamlike healing processes in desperate attempts to liberate themselves from subconscious dynamics that span multiple generations.
The performance and music in Rue de la Lune was captured in improvisational performances by six artists, integrating their current or relevant art practice, localities and daily lives.

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Pele | Skin

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Marcos Pimentel

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Brazil | 2021

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Runtime/Duración: 1:15:00

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Documentary about the interaction between the Brazilian city’s inhabitants and what is expressed in its walls. Graffiti, indecipherable symbols, slogans, political thoughts, hieroglyphs, declarations of love… Fragments of memory and silent screams that reveal the desires, fears, fantasies and daydreams of those who inhabit urban centers. The letters and drawings interacting with the different bodies that move through the public space. The urgent narratives of the streets that express the subjectivities of the most varied visual discourses that “dress” the Brazilian cities.

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Even Hell has its Heroes

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Clyde Petersen

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United States | 2022

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Runtime/Duración: 1:49:00

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Since 1989, the slowest metal band on the planet has conjured some of music’s most striking tectonic changes. Not only did the band Earth create a glacially paced subgenre of metal and play a pivotal role in the popularization of grunge, but visionary leader Dylan Carlson also did it while battling small-town boredom, heroin addiction, and the tragic death of his roommate and best friend, Kurt Cobain.
Despite the high volume of its beloved and beautiful drone metal, Earth has rarely had much to say for itself. For the first time, in a moving saga that respects the music as much as the ragtag cast of eccentrics and surreal Pacific Northwest majesty that shaped it, Clyde Petersen gets to the core of the could-have-been-tragic triumph of Earth, the slow band that changed everything it touched.

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W E B S I T E

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Laying Down a Line

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Pieter Geenen

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Belgium | 2022

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Runtime/Duración 0:51:00

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Inspired by Tim Ingold’s ’The Life of Lines’ Laying Down a Line is a meditation on the concept of the line as a means to mirror, invert and erase geographies and histories. Looking at the ecology of Mexico City it visually explores the canals and chinampas of the district of Xochimilco using the principle of Camera Obscura. A pinhole transfers the light directly to the digital sensor while navigating through these so called ‘floating gardens’. Created by the Aztecs, this network of agricultural lands and waterways is the city’s sole authentic pre-Hispanic part. It forms an ingenious but precarious ecosystem currently threatened by pollution, urbanisation, tourism, abandonment and invasive sorts. The islands were built by piling mud and decaying plants on a freshwater lake, all held together by willow trees and cypresses. Today they still form an important food supplier for the city and a home to the Axolotl, an endangered amphibian native to this area only.
Juxtaposed to field recordings voicing Mexico City’s street life collected by walking the streets of the metropolitan labyrinth, image and sound blend into one microcosm. While meandering between a pre- and post-human world we come to realise that all we’re observing is merely artificial, which puts the dimensions between man and nature, land and water, past, present and future into question.

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Diarios del encierro | Lockdown Diaries

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Jeff Zorrilla

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Argentina | 2022

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Runtime/Duración: 1:20:00

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Over the course of a year and a half, Jeff Zorrilla, obsessively shot scenes from his everyday life during the pandemic. Even though it quickly takes the form of a diary, the film also mutates into other forms, such as the epistolary, but always through collage, through the superimposition and juxtaposition of figures, colors and lights. Narrated from that melancholy, familiar sense given by the texture of 16mm stock, Lockdown Diaries explores fears, illusion, disillusion and, especially, the great changes in the life of Jeff and his family. From the uncertainty of that March, 2020, including a series of existential crisis and finally reaching a radical change in his life project, the film takes us, through a frenzied, consciously chaotic and, at the same time, intimate montage on one of the many lives affected by these strange times we’re still trying to figure out.

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