ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES, produced by UnionDocs and hosted by Cíntia Gil, is a monthly series of longform interviews with the most poetic and powerful filmmakers ex...
In our third episode, Artistic Differences has invited Dora García to speak about her formidable film Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) which traces the contemporary resonances of the rich feminist legacy of Alexandra Kollontai, a prominent Marxist theorist, Soviet revolutionary, radical feminist, and sex activist that Garcia calls,“the holy patron of dissident sexuality”. García collaborates with r artist La Bruja De Texcoco who opens up pathways of liberation, gender fluidity and an inclusive feminism in her work as a musical performer.In García’s film, La Bruja sonically grounds documentation of the incredible feminist demonstrations that appropriated public space and public discourse across Mexico City in the last 5 years.
Our hosts, Cíntia Gil (Independent Programmer) and Christopher Allen (UnionDocs Founder), came together with Dora García and talked through the many questions and thoughts that surfaced in our monthly cineclub and from viewing the film.
Listen in to learn more about García’s expansive practice - one that hopes to think beyond individualistic, neoliberal conceptions of feminism. Her films urge us to recognize how a woman’s individual sexual emancipation, economic independence, and ways of opening up community beyond normative models of family are intertwined with more collective revolutionary struggles against capitalism and patriarchy.
The film is now streaming on the UnionDocs membership. We invite you to tune into this program and conversation!
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Thanks to our incredible team!
Editor: Rui Alves de Sousa
Music: Andres Simoes
Production support: Tara Kesavan
Additional UnionDocs support provided by A.S.M Kobayashi & Scott Limbacher
This is a production of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art.
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is co-curated and co-organized by Cíntia Gil, Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller.
Find more about ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES on our site: www.uniondocs.org/artistic-differences and become a member and join the club at membership.uniondocs.org.
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Artistic Differences Invites Ignacio Agüero
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES invites legendary Chilean filmmaker Ignacio Agüero to engage in questions and provocations inspired by our cineclub and articulated by programmer Cintia Gil and UnionDocs Founder, Christopher Allen.
In this episode, learn more about Agüero’s unflinching and empathetic mode of filmmaking, one that never shies from strong political stakes. Tune in as we consider his latest feature Notas para una película (Notes for a film) (2022), an essay, which slips fluidly in time and space, borrowing competing voices and memories to question the legacy of the train and the engineering of colonial infrastructure in a region where the indigenous Mapuche were forcibly displaced by the state.
Fundamentally grounded questions continue as the discussion turns to Agüero’s early film Como me da la gana (This is the Way I Like it) (1985), a film in which Agüero mischievously interrupts many filmmakers on their sets, right in the middle of production to ask them explicitly; what’s the point of filming in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship.
Editor: Rui Alves de Sousa
Music: Andres Simoes
Production support: Constanca Pinelo, Tara Aliya Kesavan
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is co-curated and co-organized by Cíntia Gil, Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller
This is a production of https://uniondocs.org/about-us/
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Artistic Differences Invites Declan Clarke
In our second episode, Artistic Differences has invited Declan Clarke to speak about his radically minimalistic and melancholic form of filmmaking that opens a maximal poetic potential for representing histories economic, political, ideological, affective and material. Our hosts, Cíntia Gil (Independent Programmer) and Christopher Allen (UnionDocs Founder), together with those who joined our monthly cineclub, surfaced questions about Clarke’s idiosyncratic filmmaking; first considering the ruminative Saturn and Beyond (2021), which looks to a history of connective technologies, the neurological decline of Clarke’s father and the history of the Irish Museum of Broadcasting; and then diving into Group Portrait With Explosives (2014), which traces an almost imperceptible link between the former country of Czechoslovakia and South Armagh in Northern Ireland through the vagaries of industrial manufacturing and international trade.Both films are now streaming on the UnionDocs membership. We invite you to tune into this program and a conversation that probes the intriguing challenges that Clarke’s work proposes— a kind of ordering, labeling and diagramming that might allow for alternative accounts of human existence.Watch Declan Clarke’s film on our membership, and join next month’s cineclub Oct. 5th!Thanks to our incredible team!Editor: Rui Alves de SousaMusic: André Simoes Production support: Constanca Pinelo, Tara KesavanAdditional UnionDocs support provided by A.S.M Kobayashi & Scott LimbacherThis is a production of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is co-curated and co-organized by Cíntia Gil, Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller. Find more about ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES on our site: www.uniondocs.org/artistic-differences and become a member and join the club at membership.uniondocs.org.
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES, produced by UnionDocs and hosted by Cíntia Gil, is a monthly series of longform interviews with the most poetic and powerful filmmakers exploring documentary art today. It is also an online cineclub, a braintrust of folks from all around the world, who gather regularly to thoughtfully consider these challenging works and generate brave questions and candid responses that fuel the dialogue. Join us to WATCH urgent and expressive films, DISCUSS new contexts, voices, visions, and ideas across many differences, and LISTEN to open and honest conversations with the artists.
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