Wednesday, August 2 – 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Margarita Xirgu
With simultaneous interpreter into english.
Pablo Piedras (AsAECA, Revista Cine Documental, VE2017), Michael Renov (VE), Julieta Casini (UNTREF) & Kristi Wilson (VE2017).
Keynote: María Luisa Ortega Gálvez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).
Presented by: Clara Garavelli (VE2017)

Two moments; one tradition? Politics and documentary film in Spanish across the Atlantic
Between the years 1966 and 1968, Latin American documentary film reaches a high point of development. Some of its aesthetic, discursive and political premises traveled across the Atlantic and fed European debates around militant cinema.
The encounter and dialogue with this tradition in Spain happened over an extended period framed by the transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and the flows marked by exile. The landscape of documentary cinema in 21st-century Spain cannot be understood without the oeuvre of young Latin American filmmakers residing in the country, whose films exhibit traces of and concerns about film memory and political past, filtered by contemporary documentary languages and personal experiences of displacement characteristic of modern migrations. The attention to these two moments enable/ open the way for a reflection upon certain nodes and asymmetries of transnational cinematographic networks, in which politics and documentary have been conjoined in Spanish.