This compilation is the result of our effort to map out the artistic field of experimental short film and its intense dynamic during the last year in Latin America. A  selection of shorts that combine different sights, sounds, and stories from the south. 

The works in this program define trends in the technical, narrative, material, and sensorial/affective dimensions including a visually bewitching and disturbing film poem, which remains reserved and vague, constituting its fascination and magic; A collage of current and archive images (Super 8 and digital) narrated by the significant speech of the poet Fausto Fawcett, and sonorized by the musician Arnaldo Brandão; Rituals of a group of Mexican ‘bird men” dying to create life at the basis of their mysterious practices in a mountainous landscape of meteorite craters, tropical rain and red earth;Three siblings with different gender identities and sexual orientations bring us into their world during São Paulo's LGBT Pride Month.

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Esta compilación es el resultado de nuestro esfuerzo de destacar el género de cortometrajes experimentales y su dinámica creadora que se ha llevado a cabo durante el último año en Latinoamérica. Una selección de cortometrajes que combinan diferentes miradas, sonidos e historias del sur. 

Los trabajos en este programa definen tendencias en la  técnica, narrativa, dimensiones sensoriales, incluyendo un perturbador poema con visuales encantadores, lleno de fascinación y magia, un collage de imágenes de archivo y de super 8 y digital narrados por el significativo discurso del poeta Fausto Fawcett y con música del músico Arnaldo Brandao. Rituales de un grupo mexicano  de hombres pájaro que mueren para crear vida en base a sus misteriosas prácticas en las montañas llenas de lluvia tropical, cráteres y tierra roja;Tres hermanos con diferentes identidades de género y orientaciones sexuales nos llevan a su mundo durante el mes LGBTQ en São Paulo.

Prepárate para ser sumergido en el mundo de dimensiones sensoriales

Hector 

Victoria Giesen Carvajal

2019 - Chile 19 ́ Experimental

Awards: 

• Berlin Int'l Film Festival

• Festival Internacional De Cine Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

• Melbourne Int'l Film Festival

In  a small  fishing cove,  surrounded by locals  who murmur stories about  the devil, Gabriel will try  to decipher the strong attraction  he feels towards a mysterious masculine  young woman whose name is Héctor.

TERTIARY | Terciario

Rodrigo Andres Valenzuela

2018 - Chile, U.S.A , 15’ - Fiction

Awards:
Best Short Film, Foto Film Tijuana

Tertiary is a meditation on the presence of minorities in cinema and the implicit biases of technology (face detection, autofocus and artificial intelligence) in its relationship with brown and black bodies. 

Throughout the narration, dialogs and particular camera move Tertiary offers linkage between semantic and visual self-consciousness of the video piece. The camera travels around a group people having internal monologues on power, agency and privilege while the camera on autofocus has its own agency privileging lighter skin color and keeping people of color as background characters within their own discourse.

La Fuerza De Las Burbujas | The Garden Of Bubbles

Camilo Constain
2019, Colombia, Chile/Cuba, 13´ Documentary

This is a portrait made of questions. A conversation between two friends who wanted to meet. Verónica discovers some photos of her childhood that only arouse concerns and memories: what bothers you most? What has been your biggest wound? What are your dreams? In The Garden of Bubbles, life, art, gender, forgiveness and memory materialize into an honest moment

Kopacabana 

Khalil Charif & Marcos Bonisson

2019 - Brazil , 13’ - Experimental 

Awards: New Renaissance Film Festival

Film set in the neighborhood of Copacabana, elaborated through a collage of current and archive images (Super 8 and digital). An experimental work narrated by the significant speech of the poet Fausto Fawcett, and sonorized by the musician Arnaldo Brandão

3 Siblings 

Sheena Rossiter & Sandro Silva & Nadia Sussman

2018-Canada & Brazil  22´, Documentary

Awards:

• Int'l Festival Segni Della Notte                                         

• International Female Film Festival Malmö 

• Favafest 

• Inside Out Toronto Lgbt Film Festival 

• Oregon Documentary Film Festival 

Three siblings with different gender identities and sexual orientations bring us into

their world during São Paulo’s LGBT Pride Month. We learn about their relationships with each other, and how they work to overcome rampant homophobia and transphobia that exists in Brazil.

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