cineclub

On May, 31st, begins the new season of cineforum at La Escocesa. One Wednesday per month from May to September, we will screen films in original version with Spanish subtitles, curated by different members and resident artists of La Escocesa.

After the screenings, La Escocesa organises a springtime "pica pica" where we can talk and discuss what we have seen.

program

Wednesday May 31st

20:00h

"Night Vision"

A documentary by Carolina Moscoso

Eight years after being raped on a beach near Santiago de Chile, a young filmmaker assembles with dozens of video diaries a kaleidoscope in which the wounds of abuse, the re-victimizing judicial processes and the friendship that accompanies her appear. In revisiting these images, a dialogue between light and darkness emerges, while the strangeness of the world remains. In this journey, the question arises: what is rape in reality and when does it end?

2019, 78 min, Chile

21:30h

springtime "pica pica"

Wednesday, June 21

21:00h

Cineclub dedicated to La Vulcanizadora collective

• "Open mountain"
  A medium-length film directed by Maria Rojas Arias
  
  On July 19, 1929, in a town in Colombia, a group of shoemakers fought to improve living and working conditions in the country. They called themselves The Bolsheviks of Líbano Tolima. Their revolution lasted only one day, and its traces were almost completely lost. The women of this village share with Aura, an anarchist grandmother, a feeling that their rebellion is still going on.
  
  16mm. Transfer 4K
  2021, 25 min
   
• "Yarokamena"
  A medium-length film directed by Andrés Jurado
  
  This is the story of a Uitoto indigenous person who organized armed resistance to rubber exploitation at the beginning of the 20th century in Casa Arana. Yarokamena, invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container that ends up creating a spiral of betrayal and death. This remarkable tale was banned by traditional authorities for its potential to attract young people to revolt and function as a stimulus to resort to witchcraft.
  
  This story is told by Gerardo Sueche, councilor of the Uitoto peoples, going through filmic portraits of a delirious Amazon, invaded by technological ruins, dysfunctional antennas, ghost ships, and colonial ghosts housed in the oral memory of the survivors of this episode of exploitation and extractivism; using cinema as a new container for this destructive force.
  
  16mm transfer 4k
  2022, 21 min

22:00h

springtime "pica pica"

Wednesday, July 05th

21:00h

Autumn snack

22.00h

To books and women I sing

A documentary by María Elorza

One woman was almost called Avioneta. Another had a library in the back seat of her car.  Another breaks her finger on the unruly shelves of her bookshelf. Cigarette-makers listen to readings while they work. Ironers remember poems. To all of them, I sing. Against fire, water, moth, dust, ignorance and fanaticism, an anonymous army of women guards the books. It is an intimate resistance, without epic, without revolution, without weapons.

2022, 72 min

Wednesday 27th September

20:00h

Summer snack

20:30h

Session dedicated to the series Folklore, by Patricia Esquivias.

Patricia Esquivias (Caracas, 1979) grew up and lives in Madrid. In her pieces, videos and installations, she deconstructs hegemonic narratives and offers alternative ways of reconstructing them and rediscovering lost histories. Taking as a starting point events, characters, cultural objects or phenomena of popular culture, Esquivias articulates his narratives to question the past, to retrace that path in which some interpretations displace others.

• Folklore I
  Year 2006
  15'
  From a highly complex mental scheme transferred to paper, Patricia Esquivias synthesises the history of Spain over the last seventy years, focusing on three figures: the dictator Francisco Franco, the businessman Jesús Gil and the Valencian raves.


• Folklore II
  Year 2008
  15'
  A talk on comparative history by Patricia Esquivias. The subject, similarities between the ideas and data of Philip II (King of Spain in the 16th century) and Julio Iglesias (Spanish singer of the 20th century). Despite the temporal distance between the two biographies, Patricia manages to establish multiple parallels, so that there are less than "six degrees of distance" between the two.
   
• Folklore III
  Year 2015 (revised version)
  17' 42"
  Folklore III is a narrative about the idea of progress centred on the unlikely relationship between Galicia, Spain, and Nueva Galicia, Mexico. The former is a region in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula with a town on the coast called Finisterre [end of the earth], and the latter is a colonial territory in Mexico that was renamed so in the 16th century by the decision of Queen Juana I of Castile.
   
• Folklore IV
  Year 2009
  20' 18"
  In Folklore IV the artist starts from a personal anecdote: after asking her father if he has ever been to the Reina Sofía and discovering that the affirmative answer was probably not true, the artist unleashes a whole process of investigation through which she tries to resolve what she believes to have been an incorrect question.

Activity coordinated by Catarina Botelho, Carlos Vásquez, Marla Jacarilla and Valentina Alvarado Matos.

*Cineclub is part of REBOST, a program line managed autonomously and collectively by the members of La Escocesa, who decide the activities they want to organize according to the interests and needs of the group.