cineclub

La Escocesa's Cineclub is back with a new season of non-fiction films!

Throughout 2025, we will be presenting a carefully curated selection of films on a monthly basis. Each session will include the screening and a vegetarian dinner prepared by a guest artist, inspired by the work screened.

In this first session we will see a selection of works by Laura Huertas Millán.

program

Wednesday, March 12

19:30h

The Labyrinth by Laura Huertas Millán
21 mins | 2018 | 16mm, found footage, HD 

A journey into the labyrinthine memories of Cristobal Gomez Abel, who worked for drug lords in the Colombian Amazon during the 1980s. The film follows his journey through the forest and ruins of a narco's mansion, inspired by the Carrington mansion from the telenovela Dynasty, as he unravels the hallucinatory narrative of a near-death experience.
 

jeny303 by Laura Huertas Millán
6 mins | 2018 | 16 mm 

Born from an “objective risk”, in which a 16mm roll of film mistakenly combined two different subjects, jeny303 is a composite piece that interweaves two portraits. On one side, we have Jeny, in the process of recovery from heroin addiction. On the other side, we have building 303, an iconic modernist structure inside a public university in Bogotá, Colombia. The fortuitous and alchemical encounter of these two elements forms a brief narrative of altered states, offering an open-ended micro-story of transformation and mourning.
 

La Libertad by Laura Huertas Millán
29 mins | 2017 | HD 

Produced at Harvard's Ethnography Sensory Lab, Laura Huertas Millán's masterful La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico, whose backstrap loom-a pre-Hispanic technique preserved for centuries by indigenous women in Mesoamerica-provides the formal structure for the film's exploration of craft and its links to freedom. With echoes of Chick Strand's influential ethnographic work, La Libertad combines astute observation, testimony, subtle transfers of scale, space and texture, while weaving its own singular study of labor, creativity and the mysterious traces that circulate between them.
 

Aequador by Laura Huertas Millán
19 mins  | 2012 | HD 

A journey upstream on the Amazon River, where modernist constructions have been abandoned as if they were the memory of a future civilization swallowed up. Aequador is a science fiction documentary that evokes the colonization of nature, the ancient utopias in the Latin American forests and their coexistence with the present.

21:30h

Winter dinner by Yazel Parra Nahmens.

bio

Laura Huertas Millán is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist whose practice is positioned at the crossroads between film, contemporary art and research. Blending experimental ethnography, ecological and colonial thought, long-term historical research and fiction, her film work engages with strategies of resistance and survival. Sensual and immersive, her films propose embodied, emotional and reflective experiences, spaces that are imagined as altered states of healing.

Yazel Parra Nahmens (Caracas, 1986), Performer, researcher and poet. In truth, she is a de-constructed actress, she did many things in life as all actresses do: waitress, cook, babysitter, teacher, instructor. Among them, she did research on contemporary theater made in marginal communities (master and doctorate studies at the UAB), now she is interested in investigating the poetics of oral, musical and gastronomic tradition that continue to travel back and forth along the Afro-Andalusian Caribbean route crossing our popular imaginary. She insists on revising the hegemonic discourse of the History she was told, in order to transform it by creating inventive stories staged from her migrant, Afro-descendant and transfeminist perspective. Currently, she is a Research Resident in cultural mediation for the gastronomy guild at the Santa Monica Arts Center (2023/25).

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

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