Selection 11 - THERE IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE, MY HOUSE IS EMPTY

30 March, 2024 - 22:15
PADDENHOEK

 

NO HAY NADA QUE CELEBRAR, MI CASA ESTÁ VACÍA *
THERE IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE, MY HOUSE IS EMPTY

As Jean-Marie Straub once wisely proclaimed: “A system like this cannot be endured alone.” In this program, we embark on a cinematic journey that goes beyond time and space, delving into the rich history of Mexico and Peru. Through the immersive medium of collective cinema and the magnetism of celluloid, we find ourselves not as spectators but as active participants in the unfolding stories of these nations. Together, we join the chorus of protest, we sense the pulse of their streets echoing with history. Guided by the revolutionary spirit of their people, we walk their cobblestone pathways, becoming close witnesses to their enduring reality.

 

In the presence of Fernando Vilchez & Vero Ferrari

Curated by Sara Domínguez López

In collaboration with EQZE - Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

 

* The title of this program is taken from a fanzine of the same name published by Gato Negro Ediciones with contributions from Mexico and Colombia of Rommel Jaimes Mendoza, Abril Martínez, Aldebarán Solares, Antonio Falcón Villalobos, Bruno Bresani, Cynthia Grandini, Diana Cortés, Estefanía Pecero, Jazmín Calvillo Palomino, Julián Barón, Juliana Andrea Henao Alcaraz, Kendy Rivera, Laura Castellanos, Luis Andrade, Luis Daniel Saldaña Alvizo, Natalia Lopera, Omar Zambrano Guevara, Rodrigo Ramos, Tom Griggs, Viridiana Florentti, Mariela Sancani.

Faces in the Crowd 3: Parallax

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
,
MX
,
2019
,
16mm to digital
,
5'

A political composition on natural resistance. These images are an expiring breath in danger of extinction. These images become extinguished, consumed: a drop, a pure intensity which only appears when falling. In the presence of the image these audiovisual crowds become an affected body, assaulted by entropy. A face exhausted and reanimated by the continuous sound trance that traverses the battlefield. Faces for an eye that would not need to see.

After The Dust

Colectivo Silencio
,
PE
,
2022
,
8mm to digital
,
25'

A set of memories, a series of readings. After two hundred years as a nation, Peru has revealed many forgotten struggles in different territories, at different times. In our bicentennial, this super 8mm film presents a compilation of speeches from the most intimate and forgotten side of history.

The Sun Quartet Part 2: San Juan River

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
,
MX
,
2017
,
16mm to digital
,
13'

The Sun Quartet is a solar composition in four movements, a political composition in four natural elements, an audiovisual composition in four bodily mutations: a sun stone where youth blooms in protest, a river overflowing the streets, the burning plain rising in the city. And, finally, the clamor of the people that shook Mexico after the night of September 26, 2014. The disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa opened a breach in the Mexican political body.