TERRA COGNITA:
FACE|OFF
SCOTLAND by Louis Benassi
Sept. 20 | 7:45pm | The Hideout (downstairs theater)
UNITED KINGDOM by Jennet Thomas and Paul Tarragó
Sept. 21 | 5:30pm | The Hideout (downstairs theater)
SPAIN by Tessa Renaudo
Sept. 22 | 5:15pm | The Hideout (downstairs theater)
“During which curators and filmmakers are invited to trace the face of their cities, latitudes, topographies or psychogeographies–of origin, exile, transit, or residence. As these faces stare at each other, or stare each other out, it’s possible that features and expressions will be mirrored, distorted, swapped, coalesced, or repelled.
Despite the confrontational implication of the term, face|off is not meant to be a duel. Nor does it intend to survey the filmic scapes conjured by the guest programmers. Its concern as a perennial program will be to assemble a series of sociopolitical and aesthetic interfaces, and to attempt a reconnaissance tour from grimace to grimace.
This year Tess Renaudo, director of L’ Alternativa Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, traverses the de-centered, ambulant “movement” in Spain’s short film output; Louis Benassi, visual artist and programmer at the Edinburgh Film Festival, confides intimately in us his idea of North; and filmmakers Jennet Thomas and Paul Tarragó of London’s Exploding Cinema Collective make a strong argument for a “minor” cinema in England.”
– Athina Rachel Tsangari
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