Institut Ramon LLull

Albert Serra, a workshop in Texas

Cinema.  Texas, 21/09/2016

The Texas A&M University’s Department of Hispanic Studies organizes a two-day international workshop seminar on experimental/documentary alternative Catalan and Galician cinema, with Albert Serra and Eloy Enciso, filmmakers, scholar and film critic Àngel Quintana of the University of Girona, and Prof. Patty Keller of Cornell University. 




'The Haptic Nature of Slow-Motion Catalan and Galician Cinema at the Age of Land Exhaustion', a two-day workshop seminar on experimental/documentary Alternative Catalan and Galician cinema.

Now, when unchecked urban sprawling, excessive nature-source harvesting, and massive contamination are crippling our natural habitats, a few experimental/documentary filmmakers from Galicia and Catalonia have undertaken the task to examine with their cameras their ancestral lands, air, and seas, along with their time-vanishing industries. In doing so, they beautifully and systematically map habitats, memories, and dwellings that, while on the verge of disappearance, come fiercely alive under the eye of the camera. The seminar will explore how experimenting with current digital technology alternative Galician and Catalan cinema is able to engage in slow-motion perception of nature, and provide eerily haunted images of a haptic-time lapse quality: a sense of touch and timeless perception rarely seen in today’s frantic cinema.

Participants:

Albert Serra’s credentials are outstandingly impressive. His work has been internationally recognized, praised, and shown in the most prestigious venues, including the New York Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, Locarno Film Festival, and Kassel’s Documenta. His last film, La mort de Louis XIV (2016) will be showing this September at the Toronto International Film Festival. Serra’s 2015 work, Singularity, was selected for the 2015 Venice Biennale; Història de la meva mort (2013) won the 2013 Gold Lepoard at the Locarno Festival; Quixotic/Honor de cavalleria (2006) won Best New Director and Best Film in Catalan Language at the Gaudí’s 2007 Barcelona Film Award; Birdsong/El cant dels ocells (2008) earned entry in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.  He was also an invited guest at the 2013 Kasssel’s Documenta, where he shot 200 hours of his still in-process film Three Little Pigs/Els tres porquets.

Eloy Enciso’s first full-length feature film Arraianos (2012) won the 2013 Buenos Aires International Festival, and the 2012 Seville European Festival.  The film was also nominated for 2013 Golden Leporad at the Locarno International Film Festival, and has been recognized in a wide variety of film festivals. Mr. Enciso has recently been invited to be Artist in Residence at Harvard University for the 2016-17 Academic Year.

Àngel Quintana is Professor-Catedrático in the Dept. of Historia y Teoría del Cine at the Universitat de Girona, Spain. He is director of Caiman Cuadernos de Cine, and former director of Cahiers de Cinema-España. Prof. Quintana is a highly recognized film critic and scholar, and author of many seminal books and of hundreds of essays published in different international venues and languages; among them Virtuel? À l’ère du numérique le cinema est le plus réaliste des arts. Paris: Cahiers du cinema, 2008; and Federico Fellini. Paris: Phaedon/Cahiers du cinema, 2008 (English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese versión). Prof. Quintana has been Primary Investigator in highly successful European Union co-research projects in the history and theory of cinema.

Patty Keller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Cornell University.  Prof. Keller latest book, Ghostly Landscapes: Film, Photography, and Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture (University of Toronto, 2016), examines visual culture and the poetics of space through a multi-genre reading of contemporary Spanish film and photography. She has also published a variety of highly praised essays in different venues.  Prof. Keller is considered one of the best emerging scholars in the field of Spanish photography and film.

““The Haptic Nature of Slow-Motion Catalan and Galician Cinema at the Age of Land Exhaustion”

A Two-Day International Workshop

The Texas A&M University

Department of Hispanic Studies

September 21-23, 2016

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