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Sep 7, 2024 at 11:30 am – 3:00 pm
Artistic Differences — Dora Garcia
Our monthly cineclub and podcast, hosted in-person and virtually
11 am — IRL Doors at UNDO
11:30am — Screening begins
(in-person & online)
1pm — CineClub Conversation
(in-person & online)
LOCATIONS
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES, produced by UnionDocs and hosted by Cíntia Gil, is an online cineclub, hosted on the first Saturday of every month! Join in to add your voice to the cineclub conversations! All UnionDocs members can join in person in Ridgewood, and if you’re tuning in from afar, you can join our livestream or sign up for a link to stream on your own time.
This September, we’re delighted to spotlight the work of Dora Garcia! In her film Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something), Dora García together with singer La Bruja de Texcoco together propose a soundtrack to the incredible feminist demonstrations that have modified and appropriated public space and public discourse – in Mexico City in the last 5 years.
We think of our gatherings as an open brain trust of folks from all around the world, who gather regularly to thoughtfully consider challenging documentary works and generate brave questions and candid responses that fuel dialogue around the work of some of the most poetic and powerful filmmakers exploring the documentary form today. Join us to WATCH urgent and expressive films, DISCUSS new contexts, voices, visions, and ideas across many differences, and LISTEN to open and honest conversations with the artists.
After our convening, we produce a longform interview with the filmmaker in question as a podcast episode. We bring to them the many questions, ideas and thoughts that emerge from our meeting with all of you. If this community-based generative format of dialogue and exchange piques your interest, join the club today!
Program
Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) by Dora García
68 mins, 2021
Dora García proposes a soundtrack to the incredible feminist demonstrations that have been taking place – modifying and appropriating public space and public discourse – in Mexico City in the last 5 years.
Program Duration: 68 mins
Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.
Bios
Dora García is an artist, teacher and researcher who draws on interactivity and performance in her work, using the exhibition as a platform to investigate the relationship between artwork, audience, and place. She has participated in numerous international art exhibitions, including Münster Sculpture Projects (2007), the Venice Biennial (2011, 2013, 2015), the Sydney Biennial (2008), the São Paulo Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) and the Gwangju Biennial (2016). Recently, she participated in osloBiennalen (as part of the collective Rose Hammer), Art Encounters Timisoara (Romania), and AICHI Triennale, Japan. García lives in Oslo.
Born in Portugal, Cíntia Gil studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon Theatre and Film School) and holds a degree in Philosophy from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto), where she has also taught seminars on aesthetics. From 2012 to 2019, Cíntia Gil served as co-director and then director of Doclisboa, Portugal’s most important and steadily expanding documentary film festival, where she launched the Ibero-American lab Arché. From 2019 to 2021 she has directed Sheffield DocFest.
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