At a time when the world seems closer to its end than to its beginning, we choose to once again ask ourselves about the body. What active bodies do we need on today’s screens? We propose an active pause to contemplate stories.
A woman collecting bottles on the street to survive in the first world. A young Black girl who dreams of becoming a Ballet’s dancer. Three friends hitchhiking to visit a famous singer’s sanctuary. Two 70-year-old friends who want to become mermaids. A little girl who wants to study, but whose fate is already decided. A teenager sharing her experiences accompanying friends to get abortions. A dystopian world where a trans woman avenges colonization.
The Activisms category invites us to observe, from an intimate perspective and through a mix of documentary and fiction, which bodies are discarded by capitalism.
Alejandra Pizarnik tells us in her poem:
“Fierce joy when I find an image that speaks of me (…) when there is language where there should be silence.”
Trans women, children, teenagers, and old women take over the screen to become mirrors. How far away do we feel from them? This plurality of voices seeks to bring complexity to the visibility of our existences.
Fierce joy when I see an image that speaks of me.
INMENSIDADES – CURATOR
15TH MARCH – 8PM
SELECTED SHORT FILMS
GISELA
by Annika Lewandowski – Germany
Gisela, 73 years old, retired and single, cannot cover the costs of living on her pension alone. She is collecting deposit bottles, but does not want anyone to notice. However in the big city of Berlin it is almost impossible to keep up this pretence. Gisela has to decide which role she wants to continue playing.
WHILE IT ALL HAPPENED
by Sandra Rodríguez & Arón Nunez-Curto – Peru
A girl lands by paragliding in Lima city center. As she moves through the city and the beach, she remembers what it was like to accompany two close friends in their clandestine abortion processes. This leads her to question what her presence and actions meant to them, on what her role as someone ‘who accompanies’ consisted of?
MOLALESS
by Dash Jo – USA
A young ballerina turns to skin-bleaching in an attempt to beat the odds of success.
THE THIRD WORLD AFTER THE SUN
by Tiagx Vélez & Analú Laferal – Colombia
A transvestite ritual, opens a portal and generates an encounter with a European missionary from the fifteenth century who has delved deep into the jungle in order to fight the belief of animals as divine.
A WHITE LEMON CANDY
by Florencia Mamani – Argentina
One of Morena’s dreams is to go to Gilda’s sanctuary. Two of her friends take her there as a surprise. All three are members of Identidad Marrón, an Argentine anti-racist group. A trip is an excuse to see each one’s personal dreams and destigmatize stereotypes of three Argentine women with brown skin. A white lemon candy / this uses the term marrón that I no longer use.
IGOL
by Nafiseh Zohari – Iran
Igol is a beautiful girl who is deprived of education due to living in a deprived area.
UNLIKELY MERMAID
by Lorraine Portman – USA
Two Mermaid wannabes audition to be performers at Weeki Wachee, the Florida roadside tourist attraction that is older than Disney World. Lorraine, obsessed with mermaids, invites Peggy, 79, to travel with her to audition after they practice underwater ballet. We deep dive into vintage footage, learning what it takes to audition to be a world famous mermaid while getting to know Peggy and Lorraine. It’s never too late to dream or drown trying.
