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DISCORDIAFILMS at PANOPTIC !!

2011-09-01T07:43:00.000-07:00

MASS-MEMORIA: Revisiting Argentina and Chile’s Political Histories

PANOPTIC: New Media

The Camden International Film Festival and Asymmetrick Arts present the third annual PANOPTIC,
an exhibition of new media installation and experimental documentary shorts. This year DISCORDIAFILMS was invited to partner with PANOPTIC presenting Mass-Memoria, a video installation, and the U.S. premier of a film by Guillermo Gomez.

Installation Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 28, 6:00 PM, Asymmetrick Arts

DiscordiaFilms presents a selection of video art that addresses the political and economic histories of Argentina and Chile. The artists on view employ documentary tactics and intervene footage from the mass media to reflect on the South American dictatorships and contemporary global capitalism.

Alejandro Cohen Arazi (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
AS USUAL, A NARRATIVE OF COMICS (LO DE SIEMPRE, UN GUION DE HISTORIETAS), 2006 Video (color, sound) 10 minutes

H. G. Oesterheld was a journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who was “disappeared” during the Argentinean dictatorship. He has since come to be celebrated as a master in his field. With artwork by Francisco Solena Lopez, his most remembered comic, “El Eternauta” (1957-1977) was a subversive commentary on Argentinean politics that passed as science fiction. Here, Cohen animates these images and scripts, walking us through the darkest years of Argentina’s history into the political unrest of today.

Eduardo Menz (Montreal, Canada)
LAS MUJERES DE PINOCHET (PINOCHET’S WOMEN), 2005
Video (color, sound) 11 minutes

Confronting societal trauma via the repetition of text, sound and image, Menz intertwines television reports on two significant women during Pinochet’s brutal regime in Chile. The video examines class structure, state-imposed violence, and the mass-media’s construction of public memory.

Magdalena Jitrik and Christian Wloch (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
MANIFIESTA, 2004
Video (color, sound) 7 minutes

In late 2001 the Argentinean peso was devalued, causing a deep economic crisis that spawned rampant poverty and protest from the middle and working classes. Jitrik and Wloch filmed Manifiesta on Super 8mm film during the one year anniversary of the uprisings and deaths that occurred during the collapse. This work is both a historical document and an aesthetic comment on the intersection between art and politics.

Manuela Viera-Gallo (Santiago, Chile)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS, 2007
Video (color, sound) 3 minutes

Viera-Gallo reacts against the lasting consequences of dictatorship in Chile, using Clorox to dissolve the emulsion of photographs downloaded from the Pinochet Foundation website. Made soon after Pinochet’s death, and also around the twenty-year anniversary of a failed attempt to assassinate him, UNFINISHED BUSINESS is in her words a “raw but essential revenge to his portrait.”

Friday September 30, 2:00 PM, Farnsworth Museum

Una Identidad en Absurdo Vol. 1 (An Absurd identity Vol. 1)
by Guillermo Gomez

A musical-ethnographic documentary exploring the representation of the inconsistencies of being “Puerto Rican,” both in the island and abroad. The film is a study on the contradictory behaviors—social, political, and cultural—of a people divided on the search for a country. The movie is intertwined with another observational documentary on the soundtrack recording of the movie itself at Monopolio Records, an independent studio. Followed directly by a panel discussion featuring the Filmmaker Guillermo Gomez and the curators of DISCORDIAFILMS at Asymmetrick Arts.

Followed directly by a panel discussion featuring the film maker at Farnsworth, and then a panel discussion with the curators of Discordia Films at Asymmetrick Arts at 3:45 pm

VideoSur III at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2011-01-06T21:19:00.000-08:00

La muestra del 10 de diciembre en el auditorio del Museo de Bellas Artes fue un gran éxito, gracias a la presencia de más que 135 personas y a la participación de 18 artistas latinoamericanos sumamente talentosos. Abajo van algunas fotografías en el Flickr y Facebook de DiscordiaFilms.

The December 10th screening in Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was a great success thanks to the presence of over 135 people and the participation of 18 talented Latin American artists. Below are photos from the event and more can be found in our Flickr and Facebook.

VIDEOSUR III December 10, 2010 at the MFA Boston!

2010-10-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the spirit of exchange in the Americas, DiscordiaFilms’ VideoSur programs present Latin American video art to U.S. audiences. VideoSur III explores how South American artists use digital media to communicate their experience of urban environments. Whether working in their cities of origin, travel destinations or temporary places residence, these artists comment on the transitory and connective realities of Latin American communities. Fully immersed in a globalized, visual culture, the videos highlight artists’ unique perspectives and creative approaches. Featuring work in animation, stop-motion and video-performance, VideoSur III depicts vast cityscapes, zoomed-in views of city life, and the rapid exchanges that result from migration.

Presented by DiscordiaFilms and the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. VideoSur III is curated by Liz Munsell of DiscordiaFilms and Mauricio Román of Espacio G.

December 10th 8pm

Participating Artists:

Javiera Ovalle
Eduardo Menz
Malena Szlam
Federico Lamas
Nicolás Bordones
Juvenal Barría
Jocelyn Muñoz
Celina Portella
Deyson Gilbert
Marisa Rubio
Ana Silva
Malvecino
Hector Llanquín
Luciana Lamothe
Guido Yannito
Luciana Ohira, Luis Costa, Sergio Bonilha

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

$7/$6 Students and MFA members

Buy tickets here

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

465 Huntington Avenue

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Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, our partner for this event, is offering special discounts on a concert/after video event party

ROCK EN ESPAÑOL

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, starting at 8 PM

Rock en Español will fuse Afro-Cuban Funk, Pop, and Rock with New York’s Taxi Amarillo and Miami’s PALO!. PALO!’s enticing blend of salsa and funk will keep you out of your seats and on the dance floor. Boston-based rocker and composer WILDA MENDEZ will kick off the evening with her exciting original music.TICKETS: $8 WITH VideoSur III TICKET

FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit Villa Victoria

2010-06-01T07:54:00.000-07:00

SANTIAGO

VIDEONORTE

documentation / regístros

VideoNorte is a program of experimental shorts of contemporary artists from New York and New England, that was exhibited in Argentina and Chile between Febuary and June of 2010. VideoNorte is part of the DiscordiaFilms exchange between the Américas.

VideoNorte es un programa de cortometrajes experimentales de artistas contemporáneos de Nueva York y Nueva Inglaterra, EEUU, el cual se mostró en Argentina y Chile entre febrero y junio del 2010. VideoNorte es parte del intercambio de DiscordiaFilms entre las Américas.

QUILLOTA

CÓRDOBA

BUENOS AIRES

More images at DiscordiaFilms Flickr! / ¡Más imagenes en el Flickr de DiscordiaFilms!

Artists / Artistas :

Mallary Abel
Shane Butler
Lana Z Caplan
Steven Cossman
Jo Dery
Encontracosas
Peter Glantz
Asma Kazmi
Ethan Kiermaier
Jamie Mohr
Rachael Morrison
Marcus Owens
Julia Pello & Marcus Owens
Barbara Rosenthal
Fern Silva
Jessie Stead
Katherine Toukhy & Rashin Fahandej
Lisa van Wambeck & Thomas Little

¡VIDEONORTE!!

2010-04-18T14:51:00.001-07:00

Ciudades y espacios / Cities and spaces VIDEONORTE 2010

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Viernes, 26 de febrero en Zavaleta Lab a las 19:30 hs.
Venezuela 567, San Telmo
Primera muestra de videonorte!

Córdoba, Argentina
Viernes, 12 de marzo en DTO 6 a las 20 hs.
Oncativo 293 P.A. Esq. Ave. Maipu (Centro, casi Abasto)
Muestra de videonorte, performance, instalaciones y
musica por DJ´s ZZ & MIGHTY (bajos varios)
Nimbus Binario (zapada audio visual)

Domingo, 14 de marzo en Casa 13 a las 19 hs.
Belgrano y Pasaje Revol. (Paseo de los Artesanos)
Muestra de videonorte y exposicion y venta de
Un Pequeño Deseo / publicación en papel 2008/2009

Valparaíso, Chile
Viernes, 23 de abril en Espacio G 2010 las 19:00 hrs.
Fischer 25 Cerro Concepción, Valparaíso
Postvideos: Sonidos con Intérprete Desconocido

Quillota, Chile
Viernes, 7 de mayo en Salón Urbano a las 18:00 hrs.
En la Plaza de Armas de Quillota

Santiago, ChileJueves, 3 de junio en la Universida Arcis, Libertad 53 Metro ULA
Presentación en colaboración con ChimbaLab.
18.00 hrs: Muestra de videos en Universidad Arcis, Libertad 53, Metro ULA 22.00 hrs: Concierto After Video Norte en Bar uno, Bombero Nuñez nº 1, Bellavista (entrada $1.500), en colaboración con Chimbalab y Productora Mutante.
Participan: NiKlau, Ensamble Aleatorio, Voodochild, Terry Unplugged, Megajoy, Dj Pablo Flores y Visuales hazteunvhs (conyp+mor3zane+hecccc)

Co-curado por Ivanna Bergese Escupido de la Panza de la Bestia y Anabel Vázquez Esprit De Corps.

BENEFIT Film Screening for Chile - VideoNorte en el Norte

2010-03-29T09:32:00.001-07:00

Saturday April 17th at 8pm in Spectacle discordiafilms will be hosting a benefit show to help fund relief efforts in Chile in the aftermath of the February 27th earthquake. Donations will help artists we have collaborated with in the past, specifically Chimba Lab in Santiago, whose space was badly damaged. Since VideoNorte has never been shown in the northern hemisphere, we have decided to show the complete program that night. Please join us in solidarity with people in Chile and help us get the word out, and come out to see this fantastic line up of experimental shorts that is now touring the South (Argentina and Chile).

Participating Artists:

Mallary Abel

Shane Butler
Lana Z Caplan
Steven Cossman
Jo Dery
Encontracosas
Peter Glantz
Asma Kazmi
Ethan Kiermaier
Jamie Mohr
Rachael Morrison
Marcus Owens
Julia Pello & Marcus Owens
Barbara Rosenthal
Fern Silva
Jessie Stead
Katherine Toukhy & Rashin Fahandej
Lisa van Wambeck & Thomas Little

***please contact discordiafilms@gmail.com if you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation******

¡¡¡¡mil gracias!!!!!

VIDEOSUR en UNIONDOCS NYC 2009

2010-02-13T09:34:00.000-08:00

Fotos de VideoSur NYC gracias a UNIONDOCS en Flickr!

VIDEOSUR II @ MassArt Film Society Boston 2009

2010-02-02T15:55:00.000-08:00

Foto Credit: Brandon Nastanski

VIdeoSur @ UNIONDOCS NYC 12.19.09!!

2009-12-13T11:12:00.000-08:00

UnionDocs and the

MassArt Film Societ y present VideoSur, the New York premier of works selected from a 2009 two-part series screened in Boston. Co-curated by DiscordiaFilms, VideoSur consists of experimental shorts including documentation of performance and art actions, noise video and stop motion animations from Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
Inspired by the spirit of exchange in the Americas, VideoSur conveys the complex cultural vision of Latin American artists working both in Latin America and as part of its diaspora.

VideoSur at UnionDocs will be accompanied by a 30-minute sound and video presentation by Ni Nada, an improvisational sound ensemble performed over a fixed landspace in video that will be manipulated in real time. The piece denominated "Contemplación alterada" will be executed by ni and Vela

The screening will be followed by a discussion with curators and artists Ivanna Bergese, Julio Lamilla, Liz Munsell and Anabel Vázquez.

@UnionDocs 7:30PM

322 UNION AVE
BROOKLYN, NY 11211

DECEMBER 9th 2009 @ MassArt Film Society!

2009-11-23T17:32:00.000-08:00

VideoSur II : Experimental Video from Latin America at MassArt Film Society

The MassArt Film Society and Discordiafilms present VideoSur II, a selection of Latin America experimental video that includes documentation of performance and art actions, noise video and stop motion animation from Chile, Argentina and Mexico.

Inspired by the spirit of exchange in the Americas, VideoSur II is the second of a series of video showings that convey the complex cultural vision of Latin American artists.

MassArt Film Society has been screening experimental cinema at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design for over thirty years, bringing the foremost avant-garde cinema to Boston under the direction of the filmmaker and professor Saul Levine.

Artists:

Antonia López
Hector Llanquín

Manuel Orellana Sandoval

Javiera Ovalle Sazie

Constaza Piña
Agustina Rodríguez Suhurt
Mauricio Román

VideoSur II is co-curated by Anabel Vázquez, Julio Lamilla & Liz Munsell.

DISCORDIAFILMS@GMAIL.COM

The screening will be held Wednesday, December 9th at 8 pm in MassArt's Film Dept., Screening Rm 1 (621 Huntington Ave.) A suggested donation of $7 will be collected at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

VideoSur @ MassART Film Society, Boston

2009-09-19T13:24:00.000-07:00

Contemporary Videos from Argentina, Brasil & Chile

2009-07-26T14:49:00.000-07:00

august 26th / 26 de agosto
8 PM @ MassArt Film Society

VideoSur is an exhibit of experimental shorts conveying the complex cultural vision of Latin American artists.

VideoSur es una exhibición de cortometrajes experimentales y su transmisión de la complejidad y vision cultural de artistas latinoamericanos.

VideoSur é uma exposição de curta-metragens experimentais e transmissão da complexidad e de visão cultural de artistas latino-americanos.

Artistas/Artists:
Paulo Ahumada Rovai
Ciudad Dormitorio
Alejandro Cohen Arazi
Magdalena Jitrik
Julio Lamilla
Nicolas Machado
Nicolas Monti
Liz Munsell
Isabela Prado
Agustina Rodriguez Suhurt
Mauricio Roman Espacio G
Tomas Spicolli
Andres Torregiani
Guido Yannito

WED AUGUST 26TH, 2009
8PM 4$ DONATION
NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS
MassArt
Film Dept. Screening Rm 1
621 Huntington Ave.
Boston MA

Co-curated by Ivanna Bergese Escupido de la Panza de la Bestia and Anabel Vázquez Esprit De Corps.