Cycle of film screenings: Ibértigo Experimental
Retrospectiva de piezas de la Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid
From the 25th September to the 11th October 2009, from 10.00 to 21.00.
CAAM - Los Balcones, 9
ORGANISED BY:
7th Latin American-Ibértigo Film Festival, 2009, and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno-CAAM
The Latin American Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Ibértigo) has also tried to take risks with the programmes of each of its six previous editions, and this approach is reaffirmed with IBÉRTIGO EXPERIMENTAL, an activity organised together with the CAAM which presents a retrospective view of some of the most exceptional works of the Latin American scene shown at the Madrid Experimental Cinema Week.
To kick off the cycle, Luis Miguel Rodríguez Lozano, head of the management team of the Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, will be giving the lecture "Eighteen Years of the Madrid Experimental Cinema Week", in which he will discuss the event's management model, how both the public and professionals interact with the week, and the evolution of experimental Latin American cinema over the last two decades.
Luis Miguel Rodríguez Lozanohas been consultant for the Madrid Experimental Cinema Week since 2006, and also works on both the content and the organisation of the festival. He is the coordinator of the African Cinema Festival in Madrid and co-director of the Madrid Digital Video Marathon. He also coordinated the "Europe, a space for working better" film festival in 2007, organised to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the European Community. Since 2008 he has been co-director of the Film Production Workshop and the Actor Directing Workshop, organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Community of Madrid. In 2007 he coordinated the "Clásicos e Inéditos" (Classics and Unseen) cycle of screenings and talks, and the 1st Seminar of New Film Directors in Madrid, both events also being organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Community of Madrid.
He is the author of the book Lisandro Alonso and New Argentine Cinema, due to be published in November 2009.
IBÉRTIGO EXPERIMENTAL
The organisers of Ibértigo have designed a programme of thirteen pieces of between two and sixteen minutes in length that reflect, departing from very different stylistic approaches, the transgressive nature of the Madrid Experimental Cinema Week. The works are from countries such as Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Argentina, Chile and Spain, and together form a bill which is brimming over with suggestiveness and daring; challenging fare for the most demanding of palates..
The screenings will take place at the CAAM - Los Balcones, 9 in two simultaneous sessions, as detailed in the attached programme.
SESSION 1
(duration approx. 52 min)
CAGED
Portugal, 2006, colour, 10 min, interlingua.
We all live imprisoned in our own private cage.
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week
Director: Pedro Azevedo. He made his video debut in 2001 with "BodyShapes, TextureScapes". "Caged" is his most recent work
CANCIÓN DE AGUA FRÍA (COLD WATER SONG)
Spain, 2007, colour, 16 min, Spanish.
Elena, disturbed in the aftermath of her separation, decides to end it all. But the bursting of a stranger into her apartment makes her see things differently.
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week
Alcalá de Henares Film Festival
Cáceres Spanish Cinema Solidarity Festival
12th Independent and Fantasy Film Festival of Toledo
3rd International Audiovisual Festival of Madrid
Director: Andrés Joaquín Sendino studied film at the European Film College in Denmark and Documentary Making at the ESCAC in Barcelona. He currently collaborates with the ALLFILM production company (Estonia) to make documentaries.
CONEXIONES (CONNECTIONS)
Venezuela, 2007, colour, 13 min
Not content with the way her life is going, Ella sets out to find some answers. She follows a road that leads her to find herself. The journey becomes her transformation.
SCEM - ACE prize for best photography 2008
Best Dance Video - Independent Film and Video Makers, Patras, Greece
Distinction Award - 13th Dancing for the Camera. 2008. USA
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival. 2008. EEUU.
Director: Lídice Abreu, Caracas, Venezuela, 1965. Dancer, choreographer and dance video producer. Trained at the Gustavo Franklin School of Ballet, she participated in film-making workshops by César Boliva, Jean de Boysson and Douglas Rosenberg. She was a member of the Venezuelan contemporary dance company DanzaHoy from 1983 to 1989.
FLASHBACK AL REVÉS (REVERSE FLASHBACK)
Spain, 2007, colour, 2 min, Spanish.
A home video camera was used to film the group Klaus & Kinski performing their work "Flashback al revés". Each frame was printed onto a sheet and then each of them was photographed. 1,800 photos, 7 print cartridges and lots of patience. In the end, these photos replaced the original frames.
SCEM - Fujifilm Prize for best Spanish director 2008
Ofensiva Film Festival (Wrocław, Poland) - Best video
Barcelona Visual Sound 2008 - Jury Prize
London Short Film Festival
Director: Chema García Ibarra. Born in Elche (Alicante) in 1982. He is a short-filmmaker, member of the musical group Hikikomori and collector of musical "gadgets". His short films include "El camino de carne" (2004), "Miaau" (2007), "Aneurisma" (2000) and his most recent work, "El Ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5" (2008), presented at Cannes and awarded a prize at Sundance.
LUGARES COMUNES (CLICHÉS)
Colombia, 2007, 4 min, colour, without dialogue.
This is an ironic love story, told by a writer for whom dreams, reality, music and poetry have become clichés.
SCEM - Special Jury Prize 2008
First Prize for Animation at the Festival of Cartagena, 2007
Director: Maria Angélica Chalela Puccinni is a visual arts student at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. "Lugares comunes" (2007) is her first animated work.
TULIPÁN DIGITAL EXPERIMENTAL (EXPERIMENTAL DIGITAL TULIP)
Spain, 2008, colour, 6 min 45 sec.
An experiment in audiovisual poetry that uses a single montage technique but which does so separately for the image and the audio. The visual part is made up of over a thousand photographs of tulips that the director took over the course of two weeks. The sound consists of the title of the work repeated again and again by his daughter Lara and his mother, Claudia, over the top of a musical background which is the vocal warm-up of the Coro Columbae choir preparing for a performance.
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week
Director: Carlos Hurtado Pastor. Madrid. Information Sciences graduate and Sound Technician, he works as a teacher in the sound department of CEV (Escuela Superior de Comunicación Imagen y Sonido) and is the coordinator of the E-CEV radio station. He won first prize in the last Mexico Radio Biennial with his radio artwork "Azul".
SESSION 2
(duration approx. 50 min.)
5 (CINCO)
Argentina, 2008, 10 min, colour, Spanish.
This is an attempt to follow the creative process (with its inevitable difficulties and silences) of five female dancer-choreographers in their experience of creating a theatrical dance performance. It is a physical investigation that debunks the idea of a single, finished truth.
Fondo Metropolitano de Artes y Ciencias, Buenos Aires – 35-mm Prize.
10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI). Madrid Experimental Cinema Week
International Film Festival of Ourense
Director: Jonathan Perel. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 28th October 1976. Currently studying the last year of his arts degree at the University of Buenos Aires. He has had numerous jobs in the film industry since 1996, in particular those of Executive Producer, Production Head, Photographer, Production Assistant and Post-production Assistant.
FOR(R)EST IN THE DES(S)ERT
Spain, 2006, colour, 12 min, Spanish.
Forrest doesn't live here any more
SCEM -Fujifilm Prize for best Spanish director 2007
Sitges Festival – Best short film
Alcalá Short-Film Festival – Ciudad de Alcalá Prize
Director: Luiso Berdejo. Amara, San Sebastián, 1975. He spent his childhood skating in the neighbourhood of Amara, trying to overcome the nerves that would overcome him every time he saw a making of programme on the TV. He himself describes his career as "a kilometre and a bit of celluloid spread over several short films; hundreds of pages of feature-length scripts written, some waiting to be made, some already made by other directors; tonnes of patience during the amazing journey towards his own film... Happily married". His most important short films: "... ya no puede caminar" (2001), "Faraón" (2002) and "La guerra" (2005).
L'ULL MAREJAT
El ojo mareado (The Dizzy Eye)
Chile, 2006, b&w, 4 min 22 sec
This film does not tell a story but rather a succession of states, each one the consequence of the previous, just as a thought carries on from the one that came before, without this succession following any rational process.
Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Astratto. Rome, Italy 2007
17th Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, Spain 2007
THE SPOOKY HEALING (La sanación inquietante)
Spain, 2006, colour, 6 min 20 sec
An intimate world wrapped up in bass clarinet music. A mysterious woman gulps like a fish, punctuated by the sound of drops of water. A menacing curtain flutters: something is not right. On the other side of a door, a rag doll sits inside a man's shoe. The woman takes him to bed; darkness, nightmares in which she sends herself Morse code messages. The following morning, after watering her onion, a strange relationship begins...
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week
Urban Forest Pictures, United Kingdom
Director: Marcel Garbi has spent his whole life working with image and sound from multiple points of view. He is a composer, sound designer, illustrator, multimedia artist, graphic designer, etc. "The Spooky Healing" is his directing debut.
SILENCIO PARA ESCUCHAR (SILENCE TO LISTEN)
Spain, 2008, b&w, 6 min 42 sec, Spanish.
Contextualizing sounds through images in order to give them meaning.
SCEM - Audience Prize 2008
Directors: Mariana Dueñas and Rocío Gómez. Their filmography includes "Mus muerto" and "Indiferencia", as well as a Coca-Cola advert for the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
THE DANCER’S CUT
Span, 2007, colour, 7 min
A singular example of found footage recreating a grand visual choreography in which characters from classic cinema coexist with others from the traditional folklore of Spain. The music is a contrast of electronic tracks with samples taken from jazz and the cinema. As such, tracks by John Lurie, Codec & Flexor, Vitalic, Ennio Morricone, Nightmare on Wax all appear, along with the voice of John Furlong in the Russ Meyer film "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"..
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week
Dance Umbrella Festival, Johannesburg (South Africa)
2nd "Y un Jamón" contest, organised by Animalario TV.
1st Ca Revolta video competition, Valencia
Director: Enrique Piñuel. Highlights of his filmography include "Duermevela" (2003), "Ausencia" (2004), "Colorín colorado" (2005) and "A 100 metros" (2007).
THE QUIET (Tranquilo)
Spain, 2007, b&w and colour, 3 min, English with subtitles in Spanish.
Normally, I'm very quiet...
Málaga Spanish Festival, April 2008, RTVA Prize
Aguilar del Campoo (Palencia) December 2007, Script Prize
Cáceres ENVIDEO Festival 3.0, March 2008, 1st prize
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, Spain 2007
Director: Kike Mesa. After studying law and criminology, he soon realized that what he was really interested in were movies about lawyers and detectives. In 1997 he moved to Cuba to take the director's course at the International School of Film and Television and upon returning to Spain complemented his studies with the television production course at the Andalusian School of Radio and Television. From there began his career as producer and coordinator of audiovisual events. He has produced and directed advertising, television and documentaries. He started up the Cine en la Playa film season, he has been the coordinator for the International Fantasy Film Week of the University of Málaga for years and ran the 1st Cinematographic Campus Party at the same university.