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CILAS - Argentine Documentary Series curated by filmmaker and UCSD Visual Arts Alumnus Pablo Hadis
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 11:15am.
Alumni_Event | Film Screening
The Visual Arts Department and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies present:
Argentine Documentary Series
curated by UCSD Visual Arts Alumnus and filmmaker Pablo Hadis
May 22 - Double Screening -- Yo Presidente (I President) & Granada | 7pm | VAF Performance Space
May 25 - Sed (Thirst) | 7pm | VAF Performance Space
May 29 - Double Screening -- 818 Tong Shan Road & Legado (Legacy) | 7 & 8pm | Copley International Conference Center
► May 22, 2007
Double Screening
Yo Presidente | I President
The film features interviews with all Argentine presidents since the country’s return to Democracy in 1983. The ex-presidents openly discuss their mandates, private lives, perceptions of Argentina as well as their pending debts after leaving their posts. Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, Fernando De la Rúa, Eduardo Duhalde are among those interviewed. (75 min., In Spanish with English subtitles)
Directors: Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Rated: Not Rated
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Visual Arts Facility - Performance Space (on Russell Lane, close to Gilman Parking Structure)
Granada
A reflection on "reality" and representation, on the paths and labyrinths of memory, Granada is an experimental short video that deconstructs a testimonial story from Argentina's troubled past and questions the boundaries of the documentary genre. (6 min., In Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Graciela Taquini
Rated: Not Rated
Where: Visual Arts Facility - Performance Space (on Russell Lane, close to Gilman Parking Structure)
► May 25, 2007
Sed | Thirst
This film discusses decreasing water resources and the role they could play as causes for future wars. According to “Sed”, South America could be a likely scenario. (72 min., In Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Mausi Martínez
Rated: Not Rated
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Visual Arts Facility - Performance Space (on Russell Lane, close to Gilman Parking Structure)
► May 29, 2007
Double Screening
818 Tong Shan Road
In 1941, Pedro Lievendag and his family managed to escape Germany and seek refuge in a Shanghai ghetto, along with 20,000 other Jewish refugees. Sixty years later, Pedro and his daughter Marlene travel back to Germany and Shanghai, facing Pedro’s past as well as recovering memories of his childhood. (40 min., In Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Marlene Lievendag
Rated: Not Rated
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Copley International Conference Center, Institute of the Americas
Legado | Legacy
A film about the origin of the Jewish Gauchos, immigrants who left czarist Russia in the late 1800s and established themselves in the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos, Santa Fé and Buenos Aires, where they founded colonies with the aid of European philanthropist Baron Hirsch. (70 min., In Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles)
Directors: Vivián Imar & Marcelo Trotta
Rated: Not Rated
Time: 8:00 pm
Where: Copley International Conference Center, Institute of the Americas
Discussions will be held after the screenings with Dr. Carlos Waisman and filmmaker Pablo Hadis.
Sponsored by the Visual Arts Department and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.
All films provided courtesy of their respective directors.
For additional information call: CILAS (858) 534-6050 / Visual Arts (858) 822-1615
Driving directions to the Visual Arts Performance Space:
http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu/driving.html
Driving directions to the Copley International Conference Center:
http://www.iamericas.org/background/directions.html
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