Entrevista con la tierra + ¿Dónde están sus historias?

26 October, 2016 - 19:00
CINEMATEK, Brussels
screening

A collaboration by Cinematek, Courtisane, Embassy of Mexico in Belgium, VDFC, Universiteit Antwerpen and Nederlandse Filmacademie Amsterdam School of the arts supported by Instituto Cervantes Brussels.

Entrevista con la tierra (Interview with the Earth)

Nicolás Pereda
,
MX
,
2009
,
HD
,
colour
,
18'

Through a series of interviews and enactments we learn the story of Nico and Amalio, two children who lost a friend while climbing a mountain. Documentary and fiction seamlessly merge creating a hybrid poetic film.

"In Entrevista con la tierra I aimed to create a poetic film that merged fiction and documentary. My intention was to make a film where the person on the screen could be at once the actor and the character. It is never clear what occurs in the world of fiction and what in the world of documentary. Perhaps, a better explanation could be that at every moment, in every frame, there are elements of fiction and of documentary. I believe this to be a very interesting approach because it creates a sort of awareness that neither forms of filmmaking are closer to reality, they simply are a point of view on reality, and at the same time, a particular reality of their own." N.P.

¿Dónde están sus historias? (Where are their Stories?)

Nicolás Pereda
,
CA, MX
,
2007
,
35mm
,
colour
,
73'

Pereda’s debut feature showcases his carefully restrained narrative and visual style with its meticulously understated story of a young man trying to prevent his uncles from selling his elderly grandmother’s farm. With his regular actors Teresa Sanchez and Gabino Rodríguez making their first appearance in the mother and son roles they have played in four films to date, Where Are Their Stories? also introduces the theme of family which unites the films, here by revealing subtle, ironic parallels between the boy’s rural home and the relatively luxurious Mexico City home where his mother works as a live-in maid.