TUESDAYS@HilbertRaum presents:
Unheard & Unseen
Contemporary Experimental Argentine Cinema
Tuesday, May 17, 8 PM
Curated by Miguel MItlag
Evening screening with 3 personal films from Argentina which provided vitality into a wide film production context.
All films with English subtitles
El rey de España / The King of Spain
Martin Mainoli. 9 min. 2013. Super8/HD
The connotation of a title chosen at random intrigued and confused at the same time the producers of the Spanish Television, who enthusiastically even contacted Mainoli in order to show the film in Spain. Filmed with a few rolls of super 8, edited and punctuated by a meticulous soundwork, El rey de España is the result of an improvised construction during one afternoon in Salta between the director and a group of actors. This erratic movie is nonetheless a plain and simple open ended story.
Martin Mainoli 1973 Salta
Editor and Filmmaker. As editor he has worked, among others, with Lisandro Alonso, Martín Rejtman and Lucrecia Martel. He has made numerous short films (including the legendary “Junior”, “Kenny” and “Kenny II”) and is considered the Argentine director with the fewest feature films.
GRRR/GRRR
Manque La Banca. 10 Min. 2012. 16mm/HD
Once upon a time there was a girl with a rabbit head, standing in the middle of the crazy wood. This girl with rabbit head, or small rabbit head, or rabbit with girl head, hated the fucking rich boys who studied film on their private schools and their short films that were all the same. She also hated or rather hates the clothes, because it burns and hurts, and because without the clothes we became a little bit more like them. Our instinct born from our most deeply repressed bestiality…
Manque La Banca 1990 Bariloche
Filmmaker, producer and musician. He studied fine arts at the National University of La Plata from 2008 to 2016. He has directed the short films “GRRR” (2012,10’), “ The 7 Capital Forgiveness: 1-The Journey” (El Viaje, 2014, 6’), “ The 7 Capital Forgiveness: 3-The Future” (El Futuro, 2017,10’) and T.R.A.P. (2018, 16’) which had its premiere in the international competition of shorts at the Berlinale 2018. His first feature film "Esquí" (2021, 74 ́) premiered at Berlinale Forum and received the Fipresci prize from the International Critics Federation.
Cenando con Suarez / Dinner with Suarez
Bill Nieto & Miguel Mitlag. 38 min. 1996. Super8/16mm/HD
Half audiovisual collage on disparate formats (archive footage, home video, broadcast television, super 8 and 16mm) and half direct documentary, this free-form film has been rarely shown. Cenando con Suárez follows the influential argentine band Suárez in the mid 90´s while they play live to local audience, are on tour in Chile, and work at their own studio on the recording sessions of the album “Galope”. Cenando con Suarez is also an oblique portrait of the city Buenos Aires.
Bill Nieto 1968 Buenos Aires
Has worked with numerous filmmakers as cinematographer in almost 50 feature films. He is one of the references of independent cinema in Argentina. “Cenando con Suarez” is his only work as director.
Miguel Mitlag 1969 Buenos Aires
Studied at the Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires and I.C.P. New York. Among his experimental and documentary films are: “Shoes and other things” (2021), “Nico” (2021), “Carrots Movie Tape” (2020), “Hairdresser” (2014), “A Story of Trash Rococo” (2009) and “Cenando con Suarez” (1998). Mitlag is also a visual artist. He has participated in individual and group exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Great Britain, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela and U.S.A.