15: Wieland / Bayer-Broc

2 April, 2017 - 14:00
Sphinx cinema

 

 

SELECTION 2017

A dialogue between new audiovisual works, older or rediscovered films and videos by artists and filmmakers who work in the expanded field of moving image practice.

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Two filmic accounts of struggle and solidarity: a 1970s 16mm film by Joyce Wieland, Canada’s foremost woman artist, and a contemporary work revisiting an early 20th century massacre of the proletariat by a young French filmmaker. Charlotte Bayer-Broc shares with Wieland a language that is as poetic as political, sensitive and critical at the same time.

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In the presence of Charlotte Bayer-Broc.

Solidarity

Joyce Wieland
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CA
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1973
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16mm
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11'

A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing with the word ‘solidarity’ superimposed on the screen. The soundtrack is an organizer’s speech on the labour situation. Like her films Rat Life and Diet in North America, Pierre Vallieres and Reason Over Passion, Solidarity combines a political awareness, an aesthetic viewpoint and a sense of humour unique in Wieland’s work.

Los Diablos Azules

Charlotte Bayer-Broc
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FR
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2016
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HD
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48'

“In 1907, in northern Chile, 3600 workers from the saltpetre mines of La Pampa were shot down by the national army in the harbour at Iquique, where they had come to demonstrate. The heroism of these early revolutionaries was related in La Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique, a long complaint written by Luis Advis in 1969, a year before the election of Salvador Allende. In the Marxist didactic tradition, this cantata alternates spoken descriptions, songs of the partisans and lamentos inspired by traditional Andean music. In Los Diablos Azules, Charlotte Bayer-Broc has made her own adaptation.” (Olivier Cheval)