Very different constellations of persons share spaces in different moments, for different periods of time and for very different reasons. This commonality is always a negotiation between power and equality, between shared rules and protocols. How do bodies perform in those places and how do those spaces resonate with each individual and the community when this collective gathering takes place? What unites those individual destinies, what separates them from each other? In this program, intimate spaces can open a path for memory, ephemeral encounters of strangers are possible in public spaces, corporate private spaces lead to labor solidarity and abandoned spaces raise questions on political and social asymmetries. (Maria Morata)
In the suburbs of Tokyo, away from the chaos and noise of the city is the Café de Kinema. As if they were in a movie theater out of time and space, people take refuge in their own silence while the melodies of Nino Rota get lost in the smoke of their cigarettes.… >>>
A retrieved picture of a window elicits memories and the impulse to recreate a lost site. By this same window, an eight-year-old child feels the cold air on his face and imagines the future. Filmed in Los Angeles during the late summer of 2020 as COVID-19 cases were surging and residents were advised to stay home. The act of shooting became a way to travel back and forth, if not in space then time.… >>>
From September 2001 to April 2002 Nan and Nancy along with other Latin American women worked for the asbestos company “Branch,” cleaning the luxury apartments, offices, and banks of Manhattan in the hermetically sealed zone of “Ground Zero.” The women had neither residence permits nor work permits in the USA, and their dust masks had no filter for asbestos. At the PedWest border crossing in Tijuana refugees perform their stories. They play asbestos workers, American soldiers, Red Cross staff, and firefighters. Migrants from Guatemala and Venezuela and Mexicans who were deported from the USA to Tijuana: they are all stuck at the border due to the “Remain in Mexico” policy. The film not only describes the devaluation of migrant women, but also a system of cultural symbolism and its colonial narrative.… >>>
In her escape, M. takes refuge in an abandoned house. Amidst the echoing sounds of her efforts to get adjusted to the place, she distinguishes footsteps outside that prompt her to open the door. A fortuitous visitor, who will become her shelter companion, steps into the house.… >>>
One Buenos Aires afternoon in the Dominican hairdresser saloon, in which characters from different origins reunite around the musical feeling of the place. From dancers to performers and actors, clients and reggaeton singers. (… >>>