CINE INFINITO / CINEMA INFINIT / INFINITE CINEMA - Cultural Work

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PROGRAMME CALENDAR
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Session 1
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Wendsday, November 14th
Screening of video Programme 1
Session 2
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Wendsday, November 21st
Screening of video Programme 2
Saturday, November 24th
Morning: Work session with Virginia Villaplana.
Evening: workshop-conference
> Miriam Lozano: ‘Yesi’s Mirror’
My participation in this workshop will be based
on the analysis and the work I have done on my
project ‘Yesi’s Mirror’. The desired objective
of the project is to investigate the individual
and family-based nature of the youth in the
very city we live in, a youth considered to
be in a “conflictive” age, one which will be
of great significance to their lives. Starting
off with the response elicited from a street
ad, a relationship is forged between models
and artists, a relationship which is short but
intense, capable of setting forward documentary
declarations through images and short confidential
statements which inform and envelop the project.
Yesi’s Mirror reflects a certain age, and
visualises a personal, cultural, and affective
condition of a certain part of society.
‘Yesi’s Mirror’ speaks of secrets, of
dreams, of love, of different attitudes towards
life, the future, and many more things...
Finally, this project traces out a space and
a time that are no longer, and a generational
and social context with is psychological and
sociological implications. The result was
exhibited in June of 2006 in Rosa Santos’
Gallery, and it consisted of a series of black
and white portraits of twenty teenagers posing in
a corner of their rooms and, most of them, also
posing with family members or roommates in the
living room or common areas. Their portraits were
accompanied in the exhibition room with a looped
audio piece which compiled declarations extracted
from the previously recorded conversations.
> Pedro Ortuño: ‘After memory. Video testimonials
and narratives’
Basing myself on my personal experience as a
director of Abanico Rojo (documentary, 60’,1997),
and Blanca sobre Negra (video insta-llation,
13’, 2004), here I propose an narrative approach
to these pieces, using a variety of creative
and constructive strategies in order to produce
a narration in which the conceptual component,
together with the recuperation of memories,
becomes the main axis. Finally, I do not pretend
to criticise subjects such like the history of
our society, but to provoke a reflection in the
spectator about these topics.
Session 3
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Wendsday, November 28th
Screening of video Programme 3
Saturday December 1st
Morning: Work session with Virginia Villaplana.
Evening: workshop-conference
> David Domingo: ‘Histor(ylies) of Underground
Cinema’
«The police come to see me and to tell me that
a student has killed his wife and has recorded
the act. That video is better that the one he
presented for the video workshop.»
I teach a small video workshop as part of
the Socio-cultural Activities Division at the
University of Castellón. The students are asked
to produce what is commonly known as a short cut
film. When you open a tap for the first time, the
water comes out all muddled... So I don’t have
to do a lot, just let all the dirt come out.
My students are incapable of articulating any
kind of discourse they can call their own. Me,
myself, I’m incapable of articulating any kind of
discourse, either. And one day, I start dreaming
that one of my student kills his wife and... This
year, a student shot a scene with a character
hammering the head of another character that was
sleeping placidly. I almost broke out crying.
Session 4
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Wendsday, December 5th
Screening of video Programme 4