In collaboration with Shhh, the film festival of Monokino in Ostend (26 – 27 September), Art Cinema OFFoff is delighted to welcome filmmaker Adriana Vila Guevara.
On Saturday evening, Adriana Vila Guevara will close the festival with KALK’IIN (In the Throat of the Sun), a 16mm film performance with live music on the beach. In the wake of the festival, OFFoff presents a screening of her films on Monday evening, with space for conversation. We previously welcomed Adriana Vila Guevara for a performance in 2017.
Adriana Vila Guevara (Caracas, 1981) is a Venezuelan filmmaker and anthropologist based in Barcelona. She has developed her artistic work at the intersection of experimental film and anthropological questioning, driven by a reflexive, intuitive, and responsible relation with the world and the self. She is the co-founder of Crater-Lab in Barcelona, and currently working on the plans for a new, eco-sustainable, analog filmlab and multidisciplinary coop, Semilla-Lab, in the mountains of Montseny, Catalunya.
Free admission with a Shhh weekend pass!
Program:
- Intertropical Vision (ES/VE, 2018, 5', colour, 16mm)
Intertropical Vision situates us at the geographical centre of the world – the tropics – where the very notion of hegemonic centrality is challenged. Using Viewing Machine, Olafur Eliasson’s 2001 kaleidoscopic sculpture in Brumadinho, Brazil, the artist realizes a visual splitting and convergence of tropical images. This visual fragmentation asks us to discard ideas of a fixed centre and, instead, embrace the fluid, multifaceted nature of the periphery as a point of departure. (Francisco Llinas)
Produced in Crater-Lab (Barcelona) + optical sound and prints at L’Abominable (Paris)
- The Womb (ES, 2021, 4', b&w, digital)
The womb
Rattles its pod, the moon
Discharges itself from the tree with nowhere to go.
My landscape is a hand with no lines,
The roads bunched to a knot,
The knot myself,
Myself the rose you acheive —
This body,
This ivory
- Fragment of Childless Woman (Sylvia Plath)
- The Knots We Knot (ES, 2022, 8', colour, digital)
A careful translation of shared thinking. A visual meditation on coexistence, closeness and symbiosis – one that challenges the rigid separation between knowledge and materiality, the self and the other. (Francisco Llinas)
- Dilution (ES/VE, 2022, 5', b&w, digital)
Landscapes dissolve into water reflections. Through this formal oscillation, the filmmaker evokes the conceptual dilution that occurs when we recognize the other within ourselves. (Francisco Llinas)
- Inhabit the Silences (AT/ES, 2021, 4', colour, digital)
Through the words of Audre Lorde, Inhabit the Silences reflects on self-determination and its capacity to transform loss – of land, identity or even creativity – into a force of empowerment. (Francisco Llinas)
- In Flama (ES, 2024, 3', b&w, digital)
Returning to visual motifs of water and reflection, In Flama employs the technique of solarization to upend notions of fixity, switching repeatedly between images evocative of an absence, and images that are not. (Francisco Llinas)