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Series by Jan Banning, Dutch photographer
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Posted in May 2011 …
MIÉRCOLES! ÓSCAR RUIZ NAVIA Y TÓXICO LAB EN LA CINETECA NACIONAL
Multipremiada, exhibida en más de 60 festivales en el mundo, esta ópera prima de Óscar Ruiz Navia ocupa ya un lugar dentro de la historia del cine colombiano.
La historia se desarrolla en La Barra, un alejado pueblo del pacÃfico colombiano, allà Cerebro, lÃder de los nativos Afrodescendientes, enfrenta fuertes contradicciones con el Paisa, poderoso terrateniente que planea la construcción de un hotel en la playa. Daniel, un citadino extraño y silencioso, llega una tarde cualquiera y permanece varios dÃas en el sitio a la espera de una lancha clandestina que pueda sacarlo del paÃs. Una niña (Lucia) y dos adolescentes (Miguel e Israel), necesitados de dinero, son los únicos que intentan ayudarlo, pero conseguir una embarcación tomará más tiempo de lo planeado. La paciencia de Cerebro poco a poco se agota cuando una mañana El Paisa instala dos gigantescos bafles en la playa y comienza la construcción de una barrera que dividirá el territorio. Daniel, intentando partir, quedará atrapado en la crisis del pueblo, cuya población se resistirá a desaparecer con la inminente llegada del progreso.
Miércoles 1ro de Junio
Cineteca Nacional :: Sala 1 :: 18 hrs. :: 35 mm ::
con presencia del director *
Más info aquÃ.
LA VIDA QUE SE CONFUNDE CON EL CINE: FIRST DAY OF TÓXICO LAB CINEMA WORKSHOP
“To work in the abyss between fiction and reality, to work between what you know and all that is mysterious: I love that tension. I think its important to find the cinematic in everyday life, a hungry point of view, daily. When you dig into people’s individual worlds and develop a keen sense of smell, to question, investigate, invent, to find fiction. The real is different to the realistic.”
-Óscar Ruiz Navia at Tóxico Lab-
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It’s not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can’t even remember your name.”
— Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
(“The last great surrealist” died today in Mexico at age 94)
AHà VIENE YA OTRO GRAN TALLER DE CINE PARA TÓXICO LAB
Oscar Ruiz Navia, talentosÃsimo y multipremiado director de cine estará impartiendo un taller teórico/práctico de 6 dÃas en donde exloraremos métodos de selección/observación de personas que existen en la vida cotidiana y que puedan convertirse en personajes cinematográficos, construyendo un universo que confunda la vida, el sueño y la ficción.
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Más informes en www.toxicocultura.com/ruiznavia.
(Los talleres de Tóxico se llenan de volada, asi que si les interesa escriban muy pronto)
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Tóxico Lab es una nueva serie de talleres diseñados especialmente para (y por) una nueva generación de talentosos artistas emergentes.
Agradecemos profundamente la colaboración de la Cineteca Nacional de México, asi como el apoyo de The Lift, el British Council, y el programa de TED Fellows.
NON-LINEAR STATE No. 044: NARROW FRAMES
“My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more obstacles one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the claims that shackle the spirit.”
-Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons-
(via Federico Urdaneta’s desk in London)
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
These pics are from houses becoming islands unto themselves, building up their barriers, running, river around them, after the recent Mississippi floods.
“The river is trying to escape the path that humans have determined for it”, says Popsci.
And then humans in turn…
(Images by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
(v @bldngblg)
TRAVELING CINEMA
Family Business, series by Amit Madheshiya
Says The Independent:
Some of those enamoured by the first grainy images of cinema had brought a projector in 1940s Bombay. As the first images whirred to life on a taut white cloth raised in clearings in villages, a novel cultural experience presented itself before audiences who sat agape, witnessing the magic. Gradually, old projectors found themselves carted off into dusty villages by maverick lawyers, doctors and producers who formed the first touring cinema companies. Till today, the same projectors- though modified and much Indianized – have been handed down like heirlooms across generations spanning more than six decades.
More here, at World Press Photo
(Gracias Anita Doron)
PAST TÓXICO GUESTS: SEÑOR CHRISTOPHER DOYLE
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGgSaqInamM[/youtube]
Happy to see that TIFF just put up a fragment of a talk with our dear Doyle, talking about cinematography in tight spaces and other things.
Says TIFF:
Award-winning cinematographer Christopher Doyle joined us as we launched our exclusive run of Chungking Express to discuss his work on this milestone of modern cinema and his extraordinary career as one of the world’s pre-eminent cinematographers.
Hosted by Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF Bell Lightbox.
(We love him we do. And we had a blast with him, dancing in Mexico City)