Looking through the rearview mirror. Film cycle

In relation to the exhibition Goshka Macuga. In Flux the artist and the curator, Neus Miró, select three films around a collective conflict, often warlike, although not always. The past is constantly projected in the present, is a character more with which it is necessary to relate, both from the documentary option and from fiction, or as from a possible hybrid, and the ways to do so can pass from rematch to oblivion .

Calendar:

Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at 7:00 pm:

Dios e o Diabo en Terra do Sol 

Glauber Rocha | Brasil, 1964 | 125 min.

Glauber Rocha is one of the most representative figures of Latin American cinema, the founder and main driver of the so-called Novo Cinema. The work of it maintains a critical nature while incorporating a language that moves away from the conventional narrative; Full of mysticism, contradiction and legend.

The film takes place in the 1940s and tells Manuel’s story, a cowboy that, tired of the mistreatment he receives from his employer, kills him and flees with his pink wife. The couple runs through the territories of northern Brazil fighting the physical and spiritual terror that seems to have possessed the country.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022, at 7:00 pm:

Winter Soldier

Winterfilm Collective | EE.UU., 1972 | 95 min.

The documentary recounts the so-called investigation of the winter soldier, organized by veterans of the Vietnam War, at the beginning of 1971, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The film presents the testimony of one hundred and twenty-five US soldiers that describe the atrocities that witnessed or committed during the warlike conflict. The event had a scant echo among the American public. Even so, it became a turning point for the movement against war.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 7:00 pm:

D’Est

Chantal Akerman | Belgium-France, 1993 | 110 min.

After the demolition of the Berlin Wall, Chantal Akerman captures the reality and mutation of the ancient Soviet territories, filmed from summer to winter in a series of itinerant planes or with a static camera.

From Eastern Germany to Moscow, passing through Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, record the bodies and faces of the anonymous masses, with their illegible expressions, whether they are simply waiting for who knows what. Films buildings, landscapes, snow or fall of the night, and offers a large number of visual and auditory impressions that constitute an impressionist and fascinating poem.

Presentation by Neus Miró, curator of the exhibition Goshka Macuga. In Flux.