The 61st edition of the Pesaro Film Festival will feature on June 18-20 a retrospective of Chilean filmmaker Jeannette Muñoz.
Born in Santiago del Chile in 1967, the independent visual artist and film-maker Jeannette Muñoz has been making 16mm films since 2001. Early in her career, she approached analogue photography before switching to moving images. Over two decades later, she has assembled a visual oeuvre comprising films, installations, performances, and ongoing serial projects. In 2005, Muñoz began creating ‘visual letters’ addressed to artists and friends, mostly less than three-minute reels that now make up a 41-episode collection, entitled Envíos. Another ‘open text’ is Puchuncaví, initiated in 2014, in which she has been observing how the inhabitants of this town coexist with the industrial scenery of refineries that have contaminated their own environment. The cinema of Muñoz explores the coexistence of the personal and the political, ecology, history of landscape, multiple correspondences and different time layers as well as reflections about what the film medium can and should do today.
Curated by Cecilia Ermini and Stefano Miraglia, the retrospective will feature a large selection of her series Envíos, some recent work (Fuente Alemana), a selection of her short films (Strata of Natural History, Villatalla), and a performance dedicated to her ongoing project Puchuncaví.
June 18-19-20 2025, Teatro Sperimentale, Sala Pasolini, Pesaro, Italy.
All screenings are free, and in 16mm.
Program: https://www.pesarofilmfest.it/en/program/content/323-focus-jeannette-munoz