Birkbeck Cinema, Saturday 13th October 2018: 14:00 – 17:00
Free entrance, book your tickets here.
In this session we are delighted to welcome Juan Soto who will present two recent works Parable of the Return (2016) and Too Late For The Cinema (2014). Juan is a London based filmmaker and editor from Colombia whose works poetically explore intersections of memory and history. Following ths screening Juan will be in conversation with Professor Catherine Grant.
Parable of the Return
41min – various video formats – TardeoTemprano Films – 2016
Wilson left home in Medellin (Colombia) on his way to Bogota but he never arrived to his destination. Thirty years later after the peace agreements with the FARC, he returns from his exile in London to meet his family who believe him dead. The plane journey shapes a parable just like the title of the poem by Porfirio Barba Jaco. (https://www.juansoto.co.uk/parable-of-the-return)
Too Late For The Cinema
5 mins, Color, HD – TardeoTemprano Films, 2014
Made at Abbas Kiarostami’s film-seminar under the topic: workers working + water. – International Film Festival, IBAFF 2013 – Murcia, Spain.
This session is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies and the Home and Exile Working Group.
Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies
The Centre offers a unique environment in which to undertake collaborative, cross-disciplinary and comparative research on visual subjects in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the organization of lectures, film screenings, workshops and conferences, the Centre aims to foster and promote innovative debates in the history and theory of visual forms, both in the specific context of the Latin American and Iberian image-world and beyond.
Home and Exile Working Group
The Home and Exile Working Group tries to think about migration in a different way, as a loss of homeland but also the making of a new home and asks, what makes it possible for people to feel at home in exile and, how can academics intervene in the conversation about immigration in ways that produce new discourses that resist racism through insisting on the right of people to feel at home in the world.