cineclub

The film club is a monthly gathering where we will present a carefully curated selection of films. Each session will include a screening and vegetarian snacks prepared by a guest artist, inspired by the film being shown. 

In this session, we will watch the film La memoria de las mariposas by Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski.

Wednesday, July 8

20h

La memoria de las mariposas by Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski | 77 min | 2025

Emerging from the rubber era, the lost stories of Omarino and Aredomi are revealed through a sensory journey that intertwines the filmmaker’s own history with archives from the Amazon of the early 20th century. The film is both a ritual and an invocation to dialogue between the living and the dead, reflecting on the limits of research, speculation, power, memory, and reparations.

21:30h

Vegetarian snacks by Valentina Alvarado Matos.

bios

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski. A Peruvian filmmaker whose work bridges the gap between experimental cinema and documentary, exploring themes such as memory, colonial histories, and collective healing. She studied Performing Arts in Peru and Film and New Media at Le Fresnoy—Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. Her previous films have been screened at prestigious festivals such as Doclisboa, Oberhausen, and Art of the Real, among others. La Memoria de las Mariposas is her debut feature and her most recent exploration of working with archives and indigenous narratives, reflecting her commitment to addressing historical wounds through a poetic cinematic lens.

Valentina Alvarado Matos. Visual artist and filmmaker. Her work addresses issues related to memory and territory through a dialogue with the materiality of film, paper, voice, and ceramics. Her practice, akin to collage, weaves together reflections on diasporic identity, memory, and landscape. Her work has been exhibited at La Virreina Centro de la Imagen, California Museum of Photography, The British Ceramics Biennial, Queer Circle London, Artium, LIAF Biennial, Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, XCentric, SFCinematheque, Loop Festival, Cinemateca de Madrid, Filmoteca de Cataluña, Microscope Gallery, Los Angeles Forum, Salzburger Kunstverein, La Capella, FUGA gallery, and Focal Point Gallery, among others.

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

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