CILAVS and BIMI: Andrés Di Tella in conversation – 24 March 2017 Essay Film Festival

The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, CILAVS, and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, BIMI, present the screening of the film:

327 cuadernos: Los diarios de Ricardo Piglia/ 327 notebooks, written and directed by Andrés di Tella (2015).

Andrés Di Tella will be in conversation with John Kraniauskas (Birkbeck) following the screening.

24 March, 2017, 6-8:30 PM

In Spanish with English subtitles

The filmmaker will be in conversation with John Kraniauskas (Birkbeck) following the screening. This is the Opening Night of the ESSAY FILM FESTIVAL 2017: A Critical Eye For Critical Times

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Cinema 1, The Mall, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AH

Tickets: £7 to £11

For more information and to book go to ICA’s webpage:

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/essay-film-festival-2017-327-notebooks-filmmaker-conversation

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CILAVS: Vivian Ostrovsky’s Brazilian connection February 4th 2017

The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, CILAVS, and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, BIMI, present:

Vivian Ostrovsky’s Brazilian connection

Vivian Ostrovsky’s avant-garde work has been shown at major film festivals (Berlin, Rotterdam, Tribeca) and is part of international collections, including MOMA, Centre Pompidou and Deutschen Kinemathek. The screening of her films connected to Brazil below will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker chaired by Laura Mulvey.

Schedule:

1.30 – 1.45pm – Registration
1.45 – 2.00pm – Introduction
2.00 – 3.00pm – Screenings:

P.W. – Pincéis e Painéis (P.W. – Paintbrushes and Panels)(2010, 15’51, dig)

This video was made for an exhibition on the muralist Paulo Werneck, who was the first to introduce mosaics in Brazilian Modernist architecture.

CORrespondência e REcorDAÇoes (2013, 10’48, dig)

Based on a correspondence between artist Ione Saldanha and the filmmaker, this portrait on the artist’s life and work was made for an exhibition at MAM in Rio de Janeiro.

ICE/SEA (2005, 31 Min, 16mm)

Playful collage of sea, sun and ice. A beach extravaganza starring suicidal skiers, soaking tigers, plunging mermaids and much more.

3.00 – 3.20pm Discussion
3.20 – 3.35pm – Break
3.35 – 4.25pm – Screenings:

Nikita Kino (2002, 40 Min, 16mm)

‘In 1960 my family lived in Brazil when my father discovered that his sister and brother in Moscow, who he hadn’t seen for 40 years, were still alive. […] At the time I had my 8mm camera then later a super 8 with which I filmed the family, our outings, picnics, markets and their homes.’
This material was mixed with Soviet found-footage and music of the same period.

Copacabana Beach (1983, 14 10 Min, 16mm)

A humorous glimpse at what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana beach. Physical fitness Brazilian style, with a dash of soccer and hints of Carmen Miranda.

4.25 – 5.00pm – Discussion

Attendance is free but booking is necessaryhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vivian-ostrovskys-brazilian-connection-tickets-29859287934

This event has been curated by Diane Gabrysiak and Luciana Martins.

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CILAVS: The Portuguese XX Century: The End of the Empire Screening – 7 December 2016

The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies warmly invites you to the:

Screening of The Portuguese XX Century: The End of the Empire, followed by editing Masterclass with TV editor Rui Branquinho 7 Dec, 2-4, Birkbeck Cinema

A part of Utopia 2016 – 7th UK Portuguese Film Festival, this film is presented by festival Director and Birkbeck PhD student Érica Rodrigues. The work of film director Joana Pontes was selected by the British-Portuguese artist Paula Rego as the most relevant narrative in Portuguese moving image. The film was part of a series that encompassed 300 interviews, hundreds of documents, photos and films from both national and international archives, all composing an extraordinary docu-series about the evolution of Portuguese society throughout the 20th Century. In this particular episode, number thirteen, we are given privileged insight into the stories and rare family footage of individuals who in 1975 escaped the imminent civil war in Angola in fragile boats or through extremely dangerous roads. It also includes interviews with key protagonists of the Portuguese revolution and the decolonisation process. Unmissable.

After the film, in a unique London event, the television editor Rui Branquinho will give audiences a broad overview of his technical aptitute with an insight into the creative process behind The Portuguese XX Century series. He will demonstrate the post production process with various examples of his work as editor for historic and art documentary series.

Wednesday 7 December, 2-4

Birkbeck Cinema

Birkbeck, University of London

43 Gordon Square

London WC1H 0PD

Attendance is free but booking is necessary: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-the-portuguese-xx-century-the-end-of-the-empire-2002-directed-by-joana-pontes-followed-tickets-29605663336

Mari Paz Balibrea, CILAVS director

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/events/

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CILAVS: Public Tears and Secrets of the Heart: Political Emotions in a State of Crisis 11th May 2016

The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS) and the Comparative Research in European Cultures and Identities (CRECI) Centre

warmly invite you to the talk by

Professor L. Elena Delgado (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Public Tears and Secrets of the Heart: Political Emotions in a State of Crisis

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.00pm

Room 112, School of Arts

Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/events/

In a society of hyper-communication, compulsive transparency and prescribed positivity, who can make claims, express political grievances and “speak from the heart” in the public sphere? How does the study of political emotions, particularly at a time of economic and social crisis, illuminate current notions of democratic citizenship and social justice?

This talk will start by analyzing the ubiquitous presence of heart-centered images and rhetoric in the “Spain of crisis” (as it has come to be known in Spanish), something quite remarkable considering that its prevalence coincides with the rising public visibility of fraud and corruption scandals, in all segments of society. I will continue by examining the contradiction implicit in the exigency of a transparent heart when the visceral truths that are exposed to the public unsettle and stir, rather than soothe and patch up.

I will then focus on recent movements that have successfully mobilized social and political activism, and in doing so have been accused of stirring visceral (and therefore irrational) reactions: secessionism in Scotland and Catalonia and the movement of the Outraged (Indignados) in Spain. I will show how through the deployment of both “negative (outrage or anger) and “positive” (hope, joy) emotions, those movements have contested the orchestration of neoliberal psycho-politics in times of crisis and managed to reclaim their space in the democratic public sphere.

Elena Delgado is Professor of Spanish Literature and Cultures, Criticism and Interpretive Theory and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). She is also affiliated with the Center for Global Studies and The European Union Center.

The focus of her current research and teaching is the construction of a Spanish national cultural identity in the democratic period, aesthetics and ideology in modern and contemporary Spanish literature, and emotions and affects in/as culture. Her most recent authored book is La nación singular.  Fantasías de la normalidad democrática española  (1996-2011) [Siglo XXI, 2014, The Singular Nation: Fantasies of Spanish democratic normalcy] for which she was a finalist for the National Book Award in Spain, in the category of essay.

She has recently completed a co-edited book entitled Engaging the Emotions in Spanish History and Culture (from the Enlightenment to the Present) published by Vanderbilt UP (2016). She has written numerous articles and given presentations and keynote lectures all over the world. She is the editor of a book series on contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Studies for Liverpool University Press, and a permanent member of the editorial team of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

She is currently working on two projects: one a cultural history of modern Spanish literature, co-authored with Jo Labanyi (Polity Press) and another, tentatively entitled “The Transparent Heart: Political Emotions in a state of crisis”, on which she will be working on next year thanks to a fellowship from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

All welcome, no booking is required

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CILAVS – Benjamin Picado seminar – 9th June 2015

The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies at Birkbeck warmly invites you to the Seminar

Aesthetic Experience of Eventfulness in Photojournalism: Vicarious Eyewitness and Narrative Indexicality

Benjamim Picado (Fluminense Federal University)

Tuesday 9 June 2015, 6pm, Room B01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

In this talk, Picado addresses the problem of pictorial systems underlying representation of historical eventfulness in photojournalism, in the context of debated claims about “indexicality” as hallmark of photographic general meaningfulness. while positioning against vindications of “pure” kinds of indexicality that typifies traditional theories of photography. He also questions the arguing strategies of new theories of photography that are mainly sustained by claims about the “artistic agency” of photographic practices. The depiction of actualities is an issue that requires a pragmatic account of visual meaningfulness, thus dependent on the interactions between images and the “beholder’s share”. In so considering, he analyses photographic depiction by means of the stylistic constraints of straightforwardness in visual presentation and two-dimensional composition, as requirements for the virtual immersive involvement of viewers, and also as operators of a narrative sense of indexicality.

Dr Benjamim Picado is a full associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the Graduate Program in Communications at Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He directs the Group of Research in Analysis of Photography, Visual and Graphic Narratives (GRAFO/NAVI), in which context, he explores the expressive materials of contemporary visual media culture (visual discourses and narrative depiction in photojournalism, visual poetics in comics and graphic novels), with special attention to the methodological models for the analyses of visual discourse (Semiotics, Iconology, Visual Aesthetics and History of Art). He is the author of O Olho Suspenso do Novecento: plasticidade e discursividade visual no fotojornalismo moderno (Rio de Janeiro, Azougue/FAPERJ:2014). Currently a Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck, he is developing his project on the visual representation of conflicts in contemporary Brazil’s photojournalism. Personal homepage: https://uff.academia.edu/BenjamimPicado

All welcome. No booking required.

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