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Film screening proposed by Camila Téllez, followed by discussion. Rock My Religion (Dan Graham, 1982-1984, 55 min) At first, I was looking for a film which would give us a way to think about images and the contradiction in them, and also the close relationship between eye and eyelid – a membrane which hydrates…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Mikel Eskauriaza, followed by discussion. Agur Everest – Namasté, Chamo Longmu (Fernando Larruquert / Juan Ignacio Lorente, 1981, 84 min / 126 min) “In 1974, a Basque expedition to Mount Everest was forced by a monsoon to return just three hundred metres from the summit. A separate expedition reached the “Roof…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Loida A. Gómez Rubio followed by discussion. 2005, School of “Traumatic” Arts, Murcia. Three colleagues are running the contemporary theatre workshop. This time, at a designated hour: 12 midnight. It’s time for Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty tonight. We’re welcomed with a silver tray full of very green…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, followed by a debate. Sur (South, Fernando “Pino” Solanas, 1988, 118 min) 1983, Argentina. Sur tells a love story. A story of resistance, imprisonment, friendship, ghosts and lovers. Sur is also a territory for desires. A nightwalk through the fragments of history and memory. Sur is afterwards; what…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Nikole Hurtado Vergara, followed by a debate. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008, 100 min) Nikole Hurtado Vergara (Bilbao, 2009) is a pupil in her first year at the Maestro García Rivero State School in Atxuri, Bilbao. During the week she does extracurricular activities like judo, txikirritmo and Basque dance. She wants…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Ibai Baldes, followed by a debate. Fred Can Never Be Called Bald (Harry Dodge, 2011, 39:56) “What if we aren’t in a ‘location’? Or if our locations are in constant flux? How does the force of location form substance in this case, in location-during, otherwise known as movement…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Marion Cruza Le Bihan and Leire San Martin, followed by a debate. We Can’t Go Home Again (Nicholas Ray & Co., 1973, 93 min.) We Can’t Go Home Again is a visual experiment by a peculiar film collective, as well as a radical portrait of Nicholas Ray, the acclaimed director…(Read More)
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Screening of a series of short films proposed by Usue Arrieta and Vicente Vázquez, followed by a debate. BB (Cameron Jamie, 1998-2000, 18 min.) Kranky Klaus (Cameron Jamie, 2002-2003, 26 min.) Spook House (Cameron Jamie, 2003, 21 min.) Massage the History (Cameron Jamie, 2010, 10 min.) Everything that goes on in the…(Read More)
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Film screening proposed by Jeleton, followed by a debate. Born In Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983) We’re on a rush, we sign whatever as outlaws forever. We just talk talk, what’s goin’ on, what’s goin’ against. We don’t agree, we ain’t free. We have our books, we ain’t no fools…(Read More)