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Onda corta, underground press and solidarity. Two old revolutionaries cross their lives in a sonic journey thanks to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow and its program Escucha Chile, violating Pinochet's iron censorship and revealing to the world through short wave the deep economic and social transformation that was hidden behind the violent repression.
A young woman tries to simply catch up with her grandmother during quarantine, but their video call proves to be anything but simple.
A piece inspired by Soviet cinematic experiments that deconstructs the spectator's point of view, shortening the duration of each shot to create the illusion of superimposition.
An anthology of three shorts. In Pájaro negro, Stella has her first date on Halloween night in an isolated area filled with superstitions. In La matanza fallida de los chitrulos subnormales, the Luna brothers, three women killers, make an appointment with their new prospective victim, but nothing will go as usual. Finally, in Suburbios del terror, some youngsters roam through the streets of Valparaíso closely followed by a journalist who is on the trail of a cruel killer who slaughters young people to preserve his own youth.
Julián tells his therapist about his empty life. His mother and sister beg to differ: whenever Julián works, crazy things happen.
A young woman listens to music on an old walkman that she finds, but is harassed by an poltergeist.
A young woman seeks out someone who has entered her house when she is between sleep and vigil. Based on Henry Fuseli's painting 'The Nightmare', 'Mare' depicts a sleep paralysis as told by the incubus myth.
A reflection over life, death and time. The director shows the last footage of her grandfather in a touching tale of a life well lived.
An autobiographical collection of instances that describe the action of living in a post-industrial landscape, the end of a love story and the politics of what is private and what is public. The camera, as a device for recording and recollection, goes beyond evoking the past to become a tool for the appearance and exorcism of spectres.
Hoping for a new job, a family of wandering peasants settles in El Remanso, a country house in ruins where the tracks of an atrocious past are visible. In their first night at the house, the family expects with anxiety the upcoming peace of the dawn.
Alberto, a young kinki, tries to regain the love of his princess Laura, in that feat, he will face the greatest difficulties that a medieval knight could endure, he will have mentors to help him and witches who will try to finish him off. Will the prince make it to the princess? Or will he end up crying next to his bike losing the battle?
Arístides died of a gunshot when he was 19 years old, while he was doing his Military Service in the Cuban Navy. He was shot in the chest at close range by the soldier who was supposed to relieve him in duty, with a Makarov PM handgun made in USSR. There are no images of him; just a letter he wrote to his sister a few hours before dying, whose reply never came to be.
Isabel takes a carry-on suitcase and begins to fill it with clothes under Patricia's watchful eye. Each item of clothing that she puts in it will be one more step to overcome her fears and rebuild her broken dreams.
It's César's birthday and his parents expect César to wear clothes that make him feel uncomfortable. Under that pressure César has to make a decision. Continue to please his family's expectations or be true to his identity as a trans man.
What type of identity are we preserving when we move through the spaces and bodies around us? How do we affect and how are we affected by those bodies? This film proposes to the audience a reflection on the importance of the contact of our body with the space for a better understanding of our meaning as a species.
Wandering around the cold city, a couple will start feeling danger all around. Fantasies, comfort and unsettling thoughts will walk with them through bleak urban scenarios.
Valentin and Olvido are the owners of the Lollipop Cabaret, a trendy Drag Queens venue where Red, their son, is about to be the new star. Everything is ready for the big party. A night that will be especially remembered.
Ayutla's Community (Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico) has spent almost 3 years without access to drinking water. Despite constant protests their complaints have not yet been addressed.
A father and son cross the Strait in search of saving Taha's fragile life. Between memories and uncertainty, they learn to survive in a hospital room.
During the peace negotiations in Colombia, a troop of women and men found themselves in the midst of uncertainty to dream of life without weapons. They wander between their loves, their fears, between doubts because Peace also produces fear. This guerrilla command reveals the intimacy of human beings who shudder at the possibility of other winds, some will also be overwhelming and uncontrollable.
In an attempt to resignify her existence, Tatiana, a young lesbian peasant girl, strips naked and walks through the spaces where she experienced the trial of the population and the submission of the armed forces.
Maule Sur is in struggle, the company Coexca S.A. dedicated to the breeding, slaughter and export of pig meat, decided to install in the rural area of the commune of San Javier a mega pig breeding plant, which would reach a total of 144 thousand animals, fear and mistrust, a series of irregularities that also adds to the current pollution that this plant is generating in the daily lives of the residents of San Javier and Cauquenes.
A teenager and a man live together in a dilapidated apartment in which time seems to be suspended. Irrevocably, a tension grows between them that becomes a destructive impulse and that leads them to rise.
Manipulation: Control of the body through disciplinary methods ensures productivity and alienation. The power of the body is diminished politically under disciplinary systems, whose mechanisms are as Foucault “calculated manipulation of its elements, gestures, and their behavior.” Discipline being a tool of shaping bodies under obedience and docillity. From April 25 to June 3 I proposed to myself to take on a performance focusing on docility as recalled daily through my hand where I wrote ‘I lack discipline’. Over the days that followed I reaffirmed my satisfaction with being undisciplined so I decided to complete the performnace. Manipulation is the act of negation of that phrase and docility is action, using this concept one of my hands imposes an almost masturbatory force on the other hand.
MY NAIL POLISH The need to disappear into the aesthetics of beauty and the aesthetics of nature. Being locked up can generate internal conflicts. The value we place on superfluities simply turn against us but in favor of pure nature. Camouflaging ourselves in it is imperative.
Erick writes unanswered text messages to Sandra while Satan watches him. That night Satan leaves a ring on Erick's door. The next morning Erick checks Sandra's cell phone, where he finds a conversation that makes him suspect a meeting that will take place that same day.
The hitman in this parody of a music video, inspired by the figure of the bad men-rapper of music videos, he tells a fiction in which the act of killing is banalized, as in action movies, one after another, the bodies of the actors, they are riddled under the bullets, the killing activity is acted upon and recorded indifferently.
The arrival of a virus came to show how vulnerable we are, when we meet with the absence. An imposed loneliness, which causes desolation in the hearts that they are waiting for a yesterday to return, and facing the uncertainty of tomorrow. "Alone" is the transpolation of a feeling in which to say "any time the past could have been better ”. Missing has become a habit with the one that we are going to have to learn to live together.
A homosexual couple arrives in Mexico City, after fleeing Jamaica where they were imprisoned for their sexual orientation. At the same time, a trans refugee from Honduras embarks on an odyssey to the United States where they will be abducted by a drug cartel and will have problems with Central American gangs due to their gender identity. The two stories intersect in a house in Mexico City that becomes an oasis in a hostile world.
The aisles of a street market in Asunción, a lonely slot machine parlor and a space that opens up to the uncertain. Now is when?
Fifteen locations are the stage where fifteen performers, among artists, poets, students etc., one per location, perform a fragment of “Wild Cathedral”, a poem by the mythical Ecuadorian poet César Dávila Andrade. A sum of portraits where the poem becomes a bridge to access the character and his respective surroundings. The poem as a regulating and critical voice between the character and the different territorialities.
Three twelve year old girls protagonize a coming of age that takes place in a summer camp. After a kiss, that seems like a playful act, Ana begins to discover an undeniable feeling of attraction for Carlota, her best friend. Julia, motivated by teenage envy, annoys and pressures Ana to confess her feelings for Carlota.
After failing to commit suicide, by being rescued by Palermo, Jorge decided to live with him in an abandoned building. The place will witness how two completely opposite people that fight their way to live in a wild place, and in a society that chooses to segregate them.
“Cake and Candle” is part of the “Quarantine” series we decided to carry out during this period as a way to keep creative, active and have fun. All parts are developed on the same wall of Isabel’s studio. This action is No. 23 of this series of video performances mivi performed daily. Today we celebrate Llorch’s birthday, referring to some of the safety measures recommended in this pandemic: distancing and masks … This makes the act supposedly cheerful since blowing birthday candles becomes almost impossible, absurd and, above all, sad. This series follows the line of work that Isabel has been developing since 2016, making simple, minimal, everyday and absurd actions around one minute in duration, and making use of everyday materials. The main difference lies in that in this case the frequency is daily, rather than weekly, as well as being carried out collaboratively with fellow collaboartors Llorch Talavera.
Eva and María are nuns and teachers in a strict catholic school. An unfortunate comment will bring negative consequences for Eva. María, the newcomer, is trying to get adapted to her new life.
Lionel descends down the abyss of his deepest fears.
This poetic look at political protest in Puerto Rico offers an intimate and empowering perspective on the struggle for recognition and self-determination.
One summer day the animals of the forest are invited to a party. They eat a ton of cake and dance all night long. When the party is over they find that all of the trees they use for shelter and food are gone. Strange creatures have stolen their homes, so they decide to go search for them.