cineclub

Back to school! Back to cineclub! In September and October we will screen short and independent films curated by some of the members of our beloved community. After the screenings, La Escocesa invites you to a autumn dinner to talk about the screenings.

programa

Wednesday, September 25th

20:30h

Autumn dinner

21:30h

کیف ایرانی Irani Bag (2020, 8min).
A film by Maryam Tafakory

Using excerpts from films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay that questions the innocence of bags in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.

Irani Bag is part of Monographs, a series of essays on Asian cinema commissioned by the Asian Film Archive (AFA).

نظربازی Nazarbazi (2022, 19min).
A film by Maryam Tafakory

Nazarbazi is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema, where depictions of intimacy and contact between women and men are forbidden.

The film focuses primarily on images of women whose bodies have been erased and victimized in post-revolutionary cinema, and alludes to discreet forms of communication that operate within censorship, but also circumvent it. It attempts to touch the spaces we cannot touch; inner feelings and sensations, but also intangibility beyond physical contact: unspoken prohibitions/regulators that can only reveal themselves as embodied experiences. The film uses poetry and silence as the only languages with which we can try to touch these spaces of socio-political ambiguities.

مست دل Mast-Del (2023, 17min).
A film by Maryam Tafakory

Two women lie together in bed. As the wind hits the window, one of them remembers a past date at the cinema. The narrated scene cannot be conveyed through images. Layers of found and original footage are superimposed to fill in some of the cracks, the deletions, the limits of representation. Mast-del, a love song that would never pass through censorship, is about forbidden bodies and desires in and out of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.

Wednesday, October 2nd

20h

Autumn dinner

21h

La visita de un pájaro (2023, 20min)
A film by Lucía del Valle Ramírez

The ritual of mourning for a loss is traversed, in addition to the customary rites, by an alteration of the gaze and a resignification of the experience, which for me is given through ornithology. In La visita de un pájaro I propose a kind of poetic manual about an initiation to the world of birds, from the observation of the bird to its banding, going through the empty spaces, the gestures and the landscape of all this environment.

Entre el volcán y la vertiente (2022, 42min)
A film by Natalia Castañeda Arbeláez

Entre el volcán y la vertiente, is an experimental video-essay where a conversation with the mountain takes place. It is an immersion in the high mountain territory, which through two screens and the camera in hand, envelops the viewer with the wet and abrasive texture of the moors and glaciers. The work offers a look that inverts the perspective to experience the vertigo of the summit, roll down the slope and escape in details of a territory sensitive to climate change: the snow-capped volcanoes of Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima, in central Colombia.

bio

Maryam Tafakory [n. Shiraz/Iran] works with film and performance, interweaving textual and filmic collages that he combines with poetry, document and archival material.

Exploring different registers through which images speak to us or refuse to speak to us, his films attempt to dissect acts of veiling and erasure: of bodies, intimacies and histories. He has an ongoing body of video essays in dialogue with post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.

Based between Shiraz and London, his screenings and solo exhibitions include: MoMA, New York; BOZAR, Brussels; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Academy Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; BEURSSCHOUWBURG, Brussels; e-flux, New York; Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona; LUX, London; among others.

Selected group events include: Tate Modern, London; Cannes Directors Fortnight, Cannes; New York Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; Villa Medici, Rome; HKW Berlin, Berlin; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and Anthology Film Archives, New York.

She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival; the Tiger Short Award at the 51st Rotterdam IFF; the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival; and the Best Experimental Film Award at the 70th and 71st Melbourne International Film Festival.

Her film, Mast-del, premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight and was selected among the Best Short Films of 2023 by Film Comment and among the Best Films of 2023 by Sight&Sound. Her first UK solo exhibition was one of Artforum's Critics' Picks 2023. Her recent video essay, Chaste/Unchaste, received the most nominations in Sight&Sound's Best Video Essays of 2023, and was featured in Hyperallergic.

She was the Flaherty/Colgate Distinguished Global Filmmaker in Residence in 2019, a MacDowell Fellow in 2023. In 2024 she was nominated for the Jarman Award and received two Locarno Film Festival awards for her latest work Razeh-del (راز دل).

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

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.

If you have any needs or questions regarding the accessibility of this activity, please visit our page on "access to La Escocesa" by clicking here.