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Attending to other audio-visual narratives
FEBRUARY 9
> MARCH 16
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Session 1 Aquí y allá (2019). Melisa Liebenthal Beyond the glacier (2019). David Rodríguez Muñiz Yo fui Anderssen (2019). Raúl Riebenbauer Vencejos (2020). Raúl Riebenbauer
18 Session 2 Cavalo (2020). Rafhael Barbosa and Werner Salles Bagetti 22
Session 3 Syria (2018). Alexia Gil and Natalia Guerrero Jo ta ke (2020). Aitziber Olaskoaga Espero (2019). Loreto Saiz and Adrián Díaz
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Session 4 Mudar la piel (2018). Ana Schulz v Cristóbal Fernández Session 5 Un día normal (2019). Carmen PG Granxeiro Pirate boys (2018). Pol Merchan A month of single frames (2019). Lynne Sachs ID copy (2020). Candela Cienfuegos
44 Session 6 Meseta (2019). Juan Palacios 48 Cinema in Azkuna Zentroa 50 General information
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BIdeOtik
Everything we are living through at the moment, the confinement, the loss, the identity issues, territorial conflicts, struggles, searches... the BIdeOtik. Attending to other audio-visual narratives programme brings together some of the elements that make up this reality. These are the audio-visual essays, documentaries, animated short films and debut films by which 16 creators chosen in a combination of open competition and curatorial process, propose other ways of looking at what we are experiencing as a society and as individuals. The aim of Bideotik is to showcase the artistic, cultural and creative aspects of audio-visual works as a tool for creation, reflection and cultural and social transformation, promoting the use of new languages through moving images and digital art. At this current time of adaptation and transformation, an online format has been added to the face-to-face sessions through the Filmin platform. This new BIdeOtik platform will allow us to expand our reach in space and time, enabling new audiences to experience the latest audio-visual art. A new session will premiere every Tuesday at the Golem Alhóndiga cinemas and on the online channel, with screenings available for six days. It is a six-week journey that starts by revisiting the spaces we inhabit, the memories and the places we belong to; it continues with introspective searches, identities, losses and struggles; and closes in sensorial territories of images and colours far removed from urban spaces.
Fernando Pérez, Rakel Esparza, Ainara Bilbao, Itxaso Díaz.
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BIdeOtik | CALENDAR
SESSION 1 DAY
FEBRUARY 9 TUESDAY GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS 7:00pm
FEBRUARY 9 > 14 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY filmin.es
PROJECTION
Aquí y allá (2019) Melisa Liebenthal Beyond the glacier (2019) David Rodríguez Muñiz Yo fui Anderssen (2019) Raúl Riebenbauer Vencejos (2020) Raúl Riebenbauer
SESSI0N 2 DAY
FEBRUARY 16 TUESDAY GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS 7:00pm
PROJECTION
Cavalo (2020) Rafhael Barbosa and Werner Salles Bagetti
FEBRUARY 16 > 21 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY filmin.es
SESSION 3 DAY
FEBRUARY 23 TUESDAY GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS 7:00pm
FEBRUARY 23 > 28 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY filmin.es
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PROJECTION
Syria (2018) Alexia Gil and Natalia Guerrero Jo ta ke (2020) Aitziber Olaskoaga ONLY IN FEBRUARY 23 IN
GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS
Espero (2019) Loreto Saiz and Adrián Díaz
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SESSION 4 DAY
MARCH 2 TUESDAY GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS 7:00pm
PROJECTION
Mudar la piel (2018) Ana Schulz and Cristóbal Fernández
MARCH 2 > 7 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY filmin.es
SESSION 5 DAY
MARCH 9 TUESDAY GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS 7:00pm
MARCH 9 > 14 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY filmin.es
PROJECTION
Un día normal (2019) Carmen PG Granxeiro Pirate boys (2018) Pol Merchan A month of single frames (2019) Lynne Sachs ONLY IN MARCH 9 IN
GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS
ID copy (2020) Candela Cienfuegos
SESSION 6 DAY
MARCH 16 TUESDAY GOLEM ALHÓNDIGA CINEMAS 7:00pm
PROJECTION
Meseta (2019) Juan Palacios
FEBRUARY 9 > MARCH 16
FEBRUARY 9 > MARCH 14
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
On the Filmin platform
4€ / 3€ with Az Card Tickets: At the Golem Alhóndiga Cinema box office and at golem.es
filmin.es 3,95€
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Session 1 // 60’
The works of this first session are a reflection on the spaces in which we live, the concept of feeling at home, our roots and family relationships through memories and attachment to the natural and geographical environment to which we belong.
FEBRUARY 9 TUESDAY
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas FEBRUARY 9 > 14 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
filmin.es
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Aquí y allá Melisa Liebenthal Beyond the glacier David Rodríguez Muñiz Yo fui Anderssen Raúl Riebenbauer Vencejos Raúl Riebenbauer
BIdeOtik | SESSION 1
Aquí y allá
FEBRUARY 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
FEBRUARY 9 > 14
Melisa Liebenthal
filmin.es
2019 // Essay // Argentina - France Aquí y allá (Here and There) is an essay-film that studies what being at home means. The filmmaker uses photographs, maps and Google Earth to connect places around the globe, not just from her own past, but also from the complex migratory history of her family that stretches back to Hitler-era Germany and Mao’s China. The real and the virtual prove equally confusing: here or there? Perhaps both, at the same time.
TECHNICAL SHEET Essay, 22’ Script and Direction: Melisa Liebenthal Cinematography: Hélène Motteau Sound design and Music: Clément Decaudin Editing: Florencia Gómez García VFX: Pierre-Yves Boisramé Set decoration: Camila Rodríguez Triana Poster and Title design: Leandro Ibarra OV. Original version (Spanish) melisaliebenthal.com/films/ aquiyalla
• International Film Festival Rotterdam - Tiger Short Competition (Netherlands, 2020) • Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra - Official Selection (Spain, 2020) / Jury’s Special Mention
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• Oberhausen Internationale Kurzfilmtage - Official Selection (Germany, 2020)
• FIDBA Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires - Argentinian Short Films Competition (Argentina, 2020) [...]
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«Aquí y allá (Here and there) is an impressive fusion of technical virtuosity, cultural heritage and migratory history. The story is fascinating and moving, and the use of maps and computer graphics is brilliant, facilitating both the search for the filmmaker and her ability to share the results with the viewer». Tony Pipolo (Artforum, September 2020)
Melisa Liebenthal is an Argentinianborn film director and editor. In her work, she seeks to craft different forms of first-person narratives and uses a wide range of creative means. Her films have been awarded in International Film Festival Rotterdam, BAFICI and Punto de Vista and screened in New York Film Festival, Edinburgh IFF and Oberhausen Internationale Kurzfilmtage, amongst others. She is a Film graduate at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. She specialized in Editing and Dramatic Structure with award-winning professor Miguel Pérez in Argentina and in Essay-Film at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. She
currently lives between Berlin and Buenos Aires and works on different personal and commissioned projects as well as a freelance editor and director.
Melisa Liebenthal
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Beyond the glacier David Rodríguez Muñiz
2019 // Documentary short film // Spain Beyond the glacier addresses the water conflict in Central Asia by analysing the complex evolution of the Sir Daria River, which begins in the glaciers of the Tian Shan mountain range and flows more than 3,000 km before emptying into the ill-fated Aral Sea.
FEBRUARY 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
FEBRUARY 9 > 14 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary short film, 18’ Direction, Photgraphy direction, editing: David Rodríguez Muñiz Music and sound: Pedro Acebedo Production: Dropped Frames OVSTSP. Original version (English), subtitles in Spanish beyond the glacier #beyondtheglacierfilm
• 35 Goya Awards Edition. Candidate for Best Documentary • 64. SEMINCI. Valladolid International Film Week. Spain • FIPADOC - Festival International De Documentaires Audiovisuels Biarritz. France [...]
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«The documentary film meditates on human relationships with the natural environment, addressing the water conflict in Central Asia. It is a short, but immense documentary with a lot of character, with a very good elaboration in a concrete and concise way». Cristian Urriaga (Cinemagavia, January 2021)
David Rodríguez Muñiz is a director, screenwriter, editor and director of photography. Among his works of fiction as a filmmaker, he has the short films Deil (Special Mention of the Jury at the 17th Malaga festival and Audience Award at Avilés Acción) and Monstruo. With the audiovisual collective Dropped Frames he has made the documentaries The River (document on the topography of the Nalón River) and Refugiados (Documentary about the rescue center of primates Rainfer). As director of photography he has made the documentary film Os Días Afogados (Amanita Films) by Luis Avilés and Cesar Souto, for which he has been a candidate for the Goya for best photography. The documentary won prizes for the Best Latin American Film in FIDOCS (Chile) and Mestre Mateo 2016 for best documentary. Currently his short documentary Refugiados is in distribution and has been
selected among others, at ClermontFerrand SFF (France), EFFA Melbourne and Bogotá Bogoshorts and has won 7 awards including the Best Documentary Short Film in FICMEC and finalist in the GFN held in San Francisco.
David Rodríguez Muñiz
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Yo fui Anderssen Raúl Riebenbauer
2019 // Documentary short film // Spain My father taught me to play chess just before he left home for good. I was a child. Forty years have passed, he has just died and I’ve decided to complete the ritual that began the day I managed to beat him.
FEBRUARY 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
FEBRUARY 9 > 14 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary short film, 14’ Direction, production, script, editing: Raúl Riebenbauer Executive production: Raúl Riebenbauer and Carlos Aparicio Photography direction: Carlos Aparicio Mastering sound: José Manuel Sospedra Music: Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1878) Viola da gamba: Phillip W. Serna © El Señor Bauer, 2019 OV. Original version (Spanish)
• Family Film Project (Oporto, Portugal): Official Selection, Special Mention by the Jury. • Beijing International Short Film Festival (Beijing, China): Official Selection. • MiradasDOC (Guía de Isora, Spain): Official Selection. • Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer (Moscow, Russia): Official Selection. 14
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«In this declaration of love by the filmmaker to his deceased father, each image is imbued with a deep feeling, as the filmmaker employs a series of rituals to make peace with his family past. In I was Anderssen, a son finds redemption through the writing and sending of a cinematographic letter». Jury of Family Film Project 2019, in Porto (Portugal)
Raúl Riebenbauer (Valencia, 1969) is a documentarian, journalist and writer. Among his projects stands out the investigation that he carried out for almost 10 years on one of the last executed with a vile stick in the Franco dictatorship. The result was the non-fiction book El silencio de Georg (RBA, 2005; Fondo Editorial UPC, 2013). He also investigated the famous photograph of Capa’s militiaman and narrated it in the documentary La sombra del iceberg (Dacsa Produccions, 2007). He has recently lived in Lima (Peru), where he has taught workshops on documentary and investigative journalism. Since 2017 he is focused on creating documentaries. Filmography: La sombra del iceberg (2007, documentary feature film), co-director, co-writer, editor; El tropiezo (2017, documentary short film), director and screenwriter; Ahir / demà (2018,
documentary medium-length film), director, screenwriter and editor; The answer (2019, documentary short film), director and screenwriter; I was Anderssen (2019, documentary short film), director, screenwriter and editor; Vencejos (2020, documentary short film), director, screenwriter, camera operator and editor.
Raúl Riebenbauer
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Vencejos Raúl Riebenbauer
2019 // Documentary short film // Spain Between March and April 2020, nearly all of humanity was confined to their homes due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. This confinement, with an uncertain end date, has revealed to many the incalculable value of a simple window. But does everyone have one?
FEBRUARY 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
FEBRUARY 9 > 14 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary short film, 6’ Direction, production, script, camera operator and editing: Raúl Riebenbauer Music: Gave up by Music Library &SFX Bai, by Jeff Dale, Joseba Beristain, Tim Reilly Summer, by Christian Garrick © El Señor Bauer, 2020 OV. Original version (Spanish)
• Project Selected in The Call #CMCVaCasa 2020 of The Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community (Sep-Dec 2020)
• Family Film Project (Oct 2020, Oporto, Portugal) 16
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«Confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic has literally opened windows to perception. Vencejos is a documentary short film that proposes an empathetic look at others, those who have no other option but to continue fleeing poverty and violence». Raúl Riebenbauer
Raúl Riebenbauer (Valencia, 1969) is a documentarian, journalist and writer. Among his projects stands out the investigation that he carried out for almost 10 years on one of the last executed with a vile stick in the Franco dictatorship. The result was the non-fiction book El silencio de Georg (RBA, 2005; Fondo Editorial UPC, 2013). He also investigated the famous photograph of Capa’s militiaman and narrated it in the documentary La sombra del iceberg (Dacsa Produccions, 2007). He has recently lived in Lima (Peru), where he has taught workshops on documentary and investigative journalism. Since 2017 he is focused on creating documentaries. Filmography: La sombra del iceberg (2007, documentary feature film), co-director, co-writer, editor; El tropiezo (2017, documentary short film), director and screenwriter; Ahir / demà (2018,
documentary medium-length film), director, screenwriter and editor; The answer (2019, documentary short film), director and screenwriter; I was Anderssen (2019, documentary short film), director, screenwriter and editor; Vencejos (2020, documentary short film), director, screenwriter, camera operator and editor.
Raúl Riebenbauer
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Session 2 // 84’
The search for historically suppressed origins and identity focuses the second session of the cycle. Self-discovery through seven characters who make instructive journeys to their ancestors and pose questions such as What moves my body? What am I dancing for? A break with colonialism, capitalism and Christianity that introduces us to another creation myth.
FEBRUARY 16 TUESDAY
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas FEBRUARY 16 > 21 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
filmin.es
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Cavalo Rafhael Barbosa and Werner Salles Bagetti
BIdeOtik | SESSION 2
Cavalo
FEBRUARY 16 TUESDAY | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
Rafhael Barbosa and Werner Salles Bagetti 2020 // Documentary // Brazil
Involved in an artistic process, seven young dancers immerse themselves in the search for their ethnic, cultural and spiritual roots. Based on a mythical narrative about the creation of man, the directors follow a creative process of men and women who seek to connect with their inner selves through dance.
FEBRUARY 16 > 21 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 84’ Cast: Alexandrea Constantino, Evez Roc, Joelma Ferreira, Leide Serafim Olodum, Leonardo Doullennerr, Robert Maxwell and Sara De Oliveira Script and direction: Rafhael Barbosa and Werner Salles Bagetti Directing assistant: Guilherme César Executive production: Valeska Leão Adriana Manolio Photography direction: Roberto Iuri OVSTSP. Original version (Portuguese), subtitles in Spanish cavalofilme.com.br
• Cine Cipó - Festival de Cinema Insurgente • Nicho Novembro • 22º Festival Kinoarte de Cinema • II Mostra Quilombo de Cinema Negro • Mostra Contemporânea Brasileira 20
• InShadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival • Circuito Penedo de Cinema 2020 • Festival Audiovisual de Campina Grande Comunicurtas UEPE
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«It is a kind of discovery of life that little by little begins to complete and compose individual stories, all with their own music, space, contact with some element of nature, movements and meaning of life». Luis Santiago (Plano Crítico, August 2020)
Werner Salles Bagetti: Journalist, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and graphic designer. He wrote and directed two documentaries that won the DocTV program: Imagem Peninsular de Lêdo Ivo (2003) and História Brasileira da Infâmia Parte 1 (2005), and Interiores ou 400 Anos
de Solão (2012, project included in the award) Petrobras Cultural), EXU - Beyond Good and Evil (2012) and A Feijoada da Vovó Maria Conga (2018). Cavalo is his first feature film. He is currently preparing the production of the fictional feature film Miami, a project included in the line of Regional Arrangements of the FSA - Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual.
Photo.: Amanda Guerra
Rafhael Barbosa: He has a degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Alagoas. He worked as a reporter, exhibition curator, cultural producer and advertising writer. Filmography: Chimarrão, Rapadura and Outros Histórias (2008); KM 58 (2011), and O que Lembro, Meu (2013), short film selected for about 30 Brazilian and international festivals, and winner of 20 awards. He also directed the documentaries Tempo de Cinema (2014), Jangada de Pau (2014) and A Feijoada da Vovó Maria Conga. Cavalo is his first feature film and he currently works in the pre-production of Olhe para Mim.
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Session 3 // 58’
The works selected for this third session reflect the gaze and interests of emerging creators facing the challenge of transmitting a story using different resources at their disposal and through the moving image. They are works that speak of loss, search and struggles from a diverse range of use of the audiovisual medium.
FEBRUARY 23 TUESDAY
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas FEBRUARY 23 > 28 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
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Syria Alexia Gil and Natalia Guerrero Jo ta ke* Aitziber Olaskoaga Espero Loreto Saiz and Adrián Díaz
BIdeOtik | SESSION 3
Syria
FEBRUARY 23 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
FEBRUARY 23 > 28
Alexia Gil y Natalia Guerrero
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2018 // Documentary short film // Spain
Syria uses stop-motion animation and a mother as the main character to examine the before and after of the armed conflict. This project, carried out by students from the CIFP Jose Luis GarcI and the U-Tad, is inspired by the Syrian war of recent years. The film has the intention of launching a new wake-up call in favor of the most disadvantaged people in war conflicts. It is dedicated to defenseless civilians who have lost their lives or have been forced to emigrate because of the war.
TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary short film ‘Stop Motion’, 2’ Original idea: Daniel Gómez, Ali Jahanmard Direction: Natalia Guerrero and Alexia Gil Production: Pablo Castillo 3D Artist: Daniel Gómez, Ali Jahanmard, Natalia Guerrero, Alexia Gil, Miguel López, Jesús M. Parral, Jorge Hurtado, Claudia Rivera Sound design: Pablo Castillo Music: Rolando M. Granja OV. Original version (Spanish)
• International Safe Community Film Festival, Iran • Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, Seul • International Animated Film Festival - SICAF 2019, de Corea del Sur
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• Festival Internacional de Cine de Cerdeña • LIFE AFTER OIL - 2019 de Burgos • Festival de Cortometrajes de Animación de la Comunidad de Madrid
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«I strongly believe in the awareness of cinema and I always try to produce transgressive content while seeking a fairer future. More human». Pablo Castillo, Syria Productor.
Alexia Gil currently works in a consulting firm that develops Mixed, Virtual and Augmented Reality applications, and is in charge of the 3D models and the design of the interfaces. She began in the digital world through a training cycle of 3D Animations, games and interactive environments taught at U-Tad. Syria, emerged as a final project and developed it together with Alexia Gil during the last year of the cycle. Natalia Guerrero currently works as a ‘3D modeler’ although in reality she works as a generalist. She made her short-film Syria the second year of her CFGS of 3D Animation, videogames and interactive
environments at U-Tad. She later went on to specialize at CICE, doing the Master of Organic Modeling with ZBrush.
Alexia Gil & Natalia Guerrero
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BIdeOtik | SESSION 3
Jo ta ke Aitziber Olaskoaga
2020 // Documentary // Euskadi A film crew embarks on an insistent search to find the cracks between two strongly polarised national identities. Successive refusals and silences will mark the road from the Basque Country to La Mancha, where Spain’s first maximum security prison is located. A journey without answers and a single question: How to recount history when the images are concealed from us?
• Donostia Zinemaldia, 2020
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FEBRUARY 23 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 40’ Direction, script, production: Aitziber Olaskoaga Photography: maddi Barber Editing: pilar Monsell Music: martín Vélez Participants: Itziar Otxoa, Maddi Barber, Pilar Monsell, Aitziber Olaskoaga OVSTSP. Original version (Euskara and Spanish), subtitles in Spanish
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«The film is a search to find the cracks between two strongly polarized national identities and in a representation of what was not going to be seen. Deciding to shoot like this was like a great act of vindication that can be taken anywhere». Aitziber Olaskoaga
Aitziber Olaskoaga (Getxo, Bizkaia. 1980) graduated in Film and Audiovisual Media at the ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) specialising in cinematography. In 2015 she travelled to Los Angeles thanks to a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. There she completed the medium-length film La sonrisa telefónica, programmed at different festivals and which received a special mention at the Jih.lava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) in 2016. She recently completed her master’s degree in Film & Video at California Institute of the Arts (USA), thanks to a grant from the university, where she combined her studies with working as head projectionist in the university cinema. Jo ta ke participated in San Sebastian Festival’s Ikusmira Berriak programme in 2019.
Aitziber Olaskoaga
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BIdeOtik | SESSION 3
Espero Loreto Saiz and Adrián Díaz
2019 // Documentary. Opera Prima // Spain Sahara The Sahrawi population has been sheltering in Algeria for over 40 years, hoping to return to their land, which is occupied by Morocco. While the Polisario Front government tries to resolve the conflict through institutional means, young Saharawis are advocating a return to armed conflict. As they wait, the cinema will be their only weapon.
FEBRUARY 23 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
FEBRUARY 23 > 28 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary. Opera Prima, 16’ Script, photography direction, sound and editing: Adrián Díaz and Loreto Saiz Cast: Sidibrahim Najem, Mahyub Mohamed, Lafdal Moh Salem, Ahmed Moh Lamin, Brahim Chagafa, Mohamed Taher Distributor: Digital 104 Film Distribution OV. Original version (Spanish) loreto.garciasaiz adrian.dv.9 @pppppuuuuummmmm @adrian_diaz_villafuerte @loretosaiz
• Mujeres tras la cámara, Madrid • CYLNEMA en Corto, Valladolid • SouthEastern International Film Festival, Nashville, EEUU • Szczecin Film Festival, Szczecin, Polonia • Festival Internacional de Cine de Ponferrada, Ponferrada [...]
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«We think this film is a good example of a film that with a low budget can tell a really interesting story. If the story you want to tell is something related to reality, it is necessary and true, the result can be very good even with a small budget». Adrián Díaz
Loreto Saiz concerned about diverse sociopolitical conflicts, travels in 2018 to the saharaui refugee camps in Tindouf to make an internship in Sahara film school and shoot her last project, ( رظتناI wait). In the same year, after a stay in BFM (Baltic Film and Media school) she graduates from Media and Film studies with extraordinary acknowledgements in Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. Ever since, she has worked writing and directing pieces to spread the knowledge of different social causes in Greece, Italy and Spain. Her video-essay Correspondencias has recently been published in Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays. Adrián Díaz, son of a Peruvian mother and a Spanish father, he studied Film, Television and Media Studies in Carlos III University of Madrid. As a final thesis, he directed the documentary ( رظتناI wait), about the Saharaui - Moroccan conflict and its effects on the students of Sahara Film School,
located in the refugee camps of Tindouf. He has also studied at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and in the University of Texas at Austin. He currently lives in England, finishing an MA in Wildlife Documentary Production
Loreto Saiz & Adrián Díaz
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Session 4 // 89’
Documentary reality and fiction are intermingled in this intimate audiovisual, social, political and espionage work that is presented in the fourth session. A story that takes us into the plot hatched to achieve peace between ETA and the State, through the personal story of Ana’s family, its director.
MARCH 2 TUESDAY
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas MARCH 2 > 7 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
filmin.es
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Mudar la piel Ana Schulz and Cristóbal Fernández
BIdeOtik | SESSION 4
Mudar la piel Ana Schulz and Cristóbal Fernández 2018 // Documentary // Spain
Juan is a mediator who tried to secure a truce between ETA and the Spanish government. Roberto is a secret service spy who infiltrated his life for years. Mudar la piel is the story of Juan, the director’s father, and Roberto, the man who spied on him. The two cultivate an unusual friendship despite the betrayal. Mudar la piel also chronicles the filmmakers’ relationship with the spy and the difficulty of grasping his elusive identity.
MARCH 2 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
MARCH 2 > 7 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 89’ Direction, editing: Ana Schulz and Cristóbal Fernández Script: Ana Schulz Photography: Cristóbal Fernández Cast: Juan Gutiérrez, Frauke Schulz Utermöhl, Mingo Ràfols, Ana Schulz Music: Fred Frith Alfred Schnittke Producers: Leite Apellaniz y Juan Barrero Production: Sr. y Sra. Coproduction: Labyrint Films OV. Original version (Spanish)
• 35 Edición Premios Goya. Ocho candidaturas • Locarno Festival Official Selection • Donostia Zinemaldia, 2018 • 33 Edición Premios Goya 32
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«The mixture of genre film, thriller and reflective documentary, family film and political film undoubtedly constitutes the heart of our film». Cristóbal Fernández
Ana Schulz is a photographer. She was born in Hamburg in 1979. She grew up in the Basque Country and studied photography, humanities and journalism in Madrid. She now she lives in Barcelona. She has worked in radio (mainly Radio 3), in cultural management and as a curator in photography exhibitions. Mudar la piel is her debut film. Cristóbal Fernández is an editor, filmmaker and musician. He was born in Madrid in 1980. In 1999 he created the film magazine Cabeza Borradora. In 2004 he moved to Barcelona to study the Master in Creation Documentary at UPF. As an editor he has worked on more than fifteen titles, including Mimosas, by Oliver Laxe or Atomic Age, by Héléna Klotz.
Cristóbal Fernández & Ana Schulz
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Session 5 // 53’
This session addresses issues related to identities that are not reflected in the system imposed by our society. What happens when your ID does not really reflect who you are? What do we understand by normality? What should define our sexual identity? These are some of the questions that the selected works launch.
MARCH 9 TUESDAY
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas MARCH 9 > 14 FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
filmin.es
* Only in March 9th at the Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas. 34
Un día normal Carmen PG Granxeiro Pirate boys Pol Merchan A month of single frames* Lynne Sachs ID copy Candela Cienfuegos
BIdeOtik | SESSION 5
Un día normal Carmen PG Granxeiro
2019 // Documentary short film // Galicia Get up in the morning, make your bed, have breakfast, take a shower. In Un día normal (A normal day), a woman is killed for being a woman and a black boy is beaten up for being black. But it is also a day when you can piss yourself laughing.
MARCH 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
MARCH 9 > 14 filmin.es TECHINCAL SHEET Documentary short film, 24’ Direction: Carmen PG Granxeiro Production: Amaia Santamarta OV. Original version (Spanish) carmenpggranxeiro.com
• Festival Alcances – Festival de Cine Documental de Cádiz 2020. • Ficnova - Festival Internacional de Cine de la No-violencia Activa, 2020 • Semana de Cine de Lugo, 2020 • The 7th Art Festival of Miami, 2019
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«Our lives face pathologizing, victimization, exclusion... they are lives for a better world for the freedom of people, of all». Carmen PG Granxeiro
Carmen PG Granxeiro works around creation. In the audiovisual field she has created pieces such as 1948-2016. Un final para empezar, around her experiences as a lesbian, Atenas. Meeting point, which revolves around the citizen movement organized in Athens with respect to the crisis of refugees, Benvidas ao club, awarded at the Malaga Festival and which delves into trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation or Un día normal (A Normal Day) released at The 7th Art Festival in Miami at the end of 2019 and part of the official selection of the Alcances de Cádiz Documentary Festival. In audiovisual fiction we highlight the short La imagen del secreto, shot in 16mm, or 8.30pm, awarded at the Hummus Fest
of La Casa Encendida in Madrid as the best fantastic short in 2016. In the video creation, Etiquétame is a finalist in 2014 for the National Award of Canal + video art.
Carmen PG Granxeiro
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Pirate boys
MARCH 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
MARCH 9 > 14
Pol Merchan
2018 // Documentary short film // Germany - Spain Pirate Boys brings us closer to the experiences of several transmasculin characters, in relation to Kathy Acker’s literary work and Del LAgrace’s photographic work. Merchan, in this film, shot in Super 8, connects his experience as a trans person with that of Acker and Del LaGrace, while reflecting on the plasticity of the physical body, literary body and film. A linguistic and cinematic world that refers to the vital experience of the artist himself through the combination of cuts: literary and textual cutting, and cuts on their own bodies and breasts, as well as visibility and affectation in their bodies of the hormone testosterone. Merchan uses the cut-up resource and relates it to the bodily transformations of trans people, in addition to generating a complicity towards Acker, as his pieces were made from the appropriation, collages and copying of other authors.
filmin.es TECHINCAL SHEET Documentary short film, 13’ Script, direction, production: Pol Merchan Cast: Del LaGrace Volcano , Pol Merchan Executive producer: Nadja Krüger Original music: Manuela Schininá Editing: Géi Sound design: Manuela Schininá Direction assistant: Nika Pe OVSTSP. Original version (English), subtitles in Spanish vimeo.com/polmerchan
• Queer Lisboa 2019 • Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 • Dortmund|Cologne International Women’s Film Festival 2019
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• Les Rencontres Internationales 2019 • Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2019 • InterFilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin 2018 […]
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«Kathy Acker’s writing, and a seminal portrait by the intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a framework for exploring trans subjectivity and queer cinema. Pol Merchan’s hybrid doc moves fluidly from documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of the genre». Pol Merchan
Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker and programmer of the Xposed International Queer Film Festival Berlin. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree from the Art in Context program at the University of Berlin. His audiovisual work explores visual semantics and cinematographic practices, deconstructing the techniques of conventional cinema. Merchan uses the camera as an extension of his eye and his body, creating intimate works that emphasize the body as its own language. Working through film, photography, and text, his artistic practice addresses transgenerational connections and the archive of oral history. His film Pirate Boys was supported by the Xposed Queer Short
Film Fund and nominated for the Lichter Art Award at the Lichter International Filmfest in Frankfurt.
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BIdeOtik | SESSION 5
A month of single frames Lynne Sachs
2019 // Documentary short film // USA In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer did an artistic residency in a cabin with no running water or electricity. During the time she spent there, she devoted herself to filming and kept a diary. In 2018, Barbara began the process of her death by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all the material from that residency to Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film. Lynne explores Barbara’s experience of loneliness. She includes text on the screen which contrasts with the somatic cinema that brings us together in multiple spaces and moments.
MARCH 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary short film, 14’ Direction, script, editing and production: Lynne Sachs Cinematography: Barbara Hammer OVSTSP. Original version (English), subtitles in Spanish lynnesachs.com
• LUX & Club des Femmes, London • 21st Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (Fest CurtasBH), Brazil • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • DocLisBoa, Portugal; Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Argentina • MUTA, International Audio Visual Appropriation Festival, Lima, Perú
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«While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film». Lynne Sachs
Fellowship in the Creative Arts and Tender Buttons Press published Lynne’s first book Year by Year Poems in 2019.
Photo: Abby Lord
Lynne Sachs is a filmmaker and poet who grew up in Memphis and is currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her moving image work ranges from short experimental films, to essay films to hybrid live performances. Between 1994 and 2006, she produced five essay films where she looked at the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Looking at the world from a feminist lens, she expresses intimacy by the way she uses her camera. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, she searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with every new project. As of 2020, Lynne has made 37 films, she received a 2014 Guggenheim
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BIdeOtik | SESSION 5
ID copy Candela Cienfuegos
2020 // Documentary short film // Spain A personal anecdote with a global dimension: that of thousands of non-binary people who are forced to live with an ID card that does not reflect who they are.
MARCH 9 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
MARCH 9 > 14 filmin.es TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary short film, 2’ Direction, production and script: Candela Cienfuegos OV. Original version (Spanish) candelacienfuegos. wordpress.com
• Hall Selecciona Section, Festival L’Alternativa 2020
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«An identity that the Candela Cienfuegos manages to dissect in a poetic way through the relationship of a silenced language. A reflection on our position regarding dissident identities and a questioning of bureaucratic structures». Wetland.network
Candela Cienfuegos. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Carlos III University of Madrid, he later completed the Documentary Film Diploma at the Madrid Film Institute. He has made two documentaries, La Herencia (2018) that was in the Official Section of the Alcances Film Festival y Terapia (2019), his final degree project.
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Session 6 // 89’
To conclude the program, we will enter a sensory journey of sounds, images and colours away from urban life. Through endearing characters, the documentary takes us through the emptied rural environment.
MARCH 16 TUESDAY
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Meseta Juan Palacios
BIdeOtik | SESSION 6
Meseta
MARCH 16 Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
Juan Palacios
2019 // Documentary // Spain Somewhere on the Spanish plateau, a sheepherder dreams of traveling to Titicaca, a retired musical duo recalls its golden age, two girls search for Pokemon with no luck, and a grandfather counts the empty houses of the town to fall asleep. The characters in this film appear as the geographical features of a territory whose culture and lifestyle seem to fade away over time. That territory is the true protagonist of this story. In an almost surrealistic observational tone, Meseta takes the form of a mapfilm that travels through the past, present and futureof the Spanish countryside. A sensory journey through the landscapeof an empty Spain.
TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 89’ Script and direction: Juan Palacios Production: Ainhoa Andraka, Zuri Goikoetxea, Cristina Hergueta Director of photography, editing: Juan Palacios Live sound: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Rubén Cuñarro, Alberto Peláez, Julio Arenas, Juan Palacios Sound design: Xabier Erkizia Production Company: Doxa Producciones Co-producers Juan Palacios, Jabuba Films Distribution in Spain: Atera Films OV. Original version (Spanish)
• ZINEBI Networking 2018 • CPH:DOX, Dinamarca, 2019 • Pesaro Film Festival, Italia, 2019
• Film Fest Gent, Bélgica, 2019 • Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, 2019
• Festival de Cine Independiente
de Barcelona, L’Alternativa Cinema Main Competition, 2019
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• MCIP - Muestra Internacional
de Cine de Palencia, 2020 • FICG – Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. Sección Oficial. México, 2020 • MAJORDOCS - Festival de Cine Documental Creativo, 2020
doxaproducciones.com/ peliculas/meseta aterafilms.com/es/catalogo/ meseta
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«Meseta is a walk that immerses the five senses of the viewer in uninhabited rural Castile. Between each of the landscape frames lies a critique that calls for the abandonment of rural life. Without a doubt, it is a claim showing its best face». Lucía Blazquez (Cinemagavia, October 2020)
Juan Palacios, with a degree in Environmental Sciences and Audiovisual Communication, is a filmmaker who lives and works in Amsterdam. His work is found between the essay film, the observational documentary, the field notebook and the experiment. With a special predilection for the borders between human culture and nature, he uses images of a factual world without apparent staging to create an alternative universe. His first feature film Pedaló won the Irizar Award at the 2016 San Sebastián Film Festival and the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Bushwick Film Festival in New York in 2017. His second feature film Meseta premiered at the CPH: DOX del 2019 where it was awarded an
Honorable Mention and won the Grand Jury and Young Jury awards in the international new cinema competition at the Pesaro Film Festival 2019.
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BIdeOtik | CINEMA IN AZKUNA ZENTROA
Cinema in Azkuna Zentroa At Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao we tackle film and the audiovisual media in a broad context via stable programmes, premieres, festivals, thematic cycles, etc., in dialogue with the rest of the Centre programme and in conjunction with different agents and bodies.
ZINEMATEKA For a decade, Zinemateka has maintained a stable programme that serves both classical cinema and more contemporary creations. This is an audio-visual programme environment that furthers the knowledge of the cinematographic and audio-visual language from works which are outside the commercial genre and market. Throughout the years, and carrying on with the work started three decades ago in the city, the Zinemateka has gone through the filmography of prominent film directors such as John Ford, Pedro Almodóvar, Dorothy Arzner, Michelangelo Antonioni, Joan Fontaine, Buster Keaton, Roberto
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Rosellini, Christine Vachon or Richard Fleischer. Following the 50 gems in the history of cinema cycle, a transversal review of the best creations of recent years, the Zinemateka brings the focus onto auteur creations by means of a selection of the filmography of eminent directors in the history of film. And it does so with the cycle Poetry Made Film dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922 - Ostia, 1975), one of the most relevant film directors and poets of the second half of the twentieth century. And with the retrospective on a key figure in Spanish cinema, Luis García Berlanga (Valencia, 1921 - Madrid, 2010), coinciding with the centenary of his birth.
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ATTENDING OTHER AUDIO-VISUAL NARRATIVES BIdeOtik, the video creation programme, focuses on creations with a differentiation factor in relation to other ways of recording and representing audio-visual vocabulary. The aim of this programme is to provide visibility for artistic audio-visual creation as a cultural social creation, reflection and transformation tool, fostering the use of new languages through moving images and digital art.
FESTIVAL VENUE The Alhóndiga is the venue for the main city festivals. Standing out among these events are Zinebi, the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film; Zinemakumeak Gara!, the Film Festival of Films directed by women; the Bilbao International Festival of Invisible Films; Zinegoak, the Bilbao International Gaylesbitrans Film and Performing Arts Festival; and FANT, the Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival. In this programme we have the complicity of other cultural agents, such as the San Sebastian International Film Festival, with which we have strengthened our collaboration to screen each year a selection of films presented in Zinemaldia.
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BIdeOtik | GENERAL INFORMATION
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