Anti-Docs from Spain: Films & Talks, New YorkJul 16

Uniondocs and Pragda bring to you an evening with experimental documentaries and talks with Spanish visiting experts. This is the coming out of the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival -the most important Spanish festival of this genre- in NYC.

Punto de Vistal is an annual festival dedicated to forms of cinema generically grouped under the heading of ‘documentary.’ Films come from around the world, with an emphasis on finding rarities in form and subject. The festival seeks to reward risk-taking and non-narrative approaches, and to uncover glints in Spanish and World Cinema.

This showcase includes the screening of two of this year’s Festival winners:

AMANAR TAMASHEQ by Lluis Escartin
Escartín’s short film communicates a highly political message by respectful and reflexive means, delivered in an intelligent and poetic combination of sound and image. Escartin lived with Tuareg rebels in the desert of Mali, and turned his camera on them in order to bring back their messages — to the degree that the mistranslations of language and history allow.

LOS MATERIALES by Los Hijos Collective
This unusual documentary explores an empty landscape around the reservoir of Riaño, in the province of León, in which the former town and nine other villages lie submerged as a consequence of a flood in 1987. The three members of Los Hijos, a young experimental filmmaking collective from Madrid, spent a year walking the area, and the resulting work is a spare, diffuse document of a village just below the surface of history.

“Los materiales defies our expectations on audiovisual language (specially the sound edition and mixing), on certain landscape aesthetic, even on the motivation or the ethic of filmmaking.”–Blogs and Docs

“Interesting and fearless, lively and stimulating…”–Cahiers du cinema Spain

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Discussion to follow with Josetxo Cerdán (Punto de Vista’s Artistic Director), Manu Yáñez (Spanish film critic) and María Adell (PRAGDA).