The C3A summer cinema opens on July 18 with ‘Animalia’ by Sofía AlaouiCORDOVA
The Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) and the Center for Contemporary Creation of Andalusia (C3A), based in Seville and Córdoba respectively, present one more year their traditional Summer Film Series that will develop between on June 5 and August 29, although in Córdoba it will begin on July 18. The series is curated by Pablo García Casado, head of the audiovisual area of the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions (AAICC), and under the name of ‘Six love letters to cinema’ presents six works by debut directors, each one of a different nationality. Admission is free until capacity is reached.
The programming of this edition, which has the collaboration of the Filmoteca de Andalucía, is made up of six films“directed by men and women who filmed without fear or expectation, only out of the desire to write their own story,” García Casado said in a statement. Through this summer proposal of the CAAC and the C3A it is intended offer proposals that challenge and propose new ways of looking at, of rereading current political and social contexts.
The first work is the letter from the young Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui (Casablanca, Morocco, 1990). ‘Animalia’which will be projected on June 5 at the CAAC and July 18 at C3A. It is an extreme fiction that speaks of a plausible apocalypse, inviting the viewer to investigate the devastating effects of extreme religion, economic and gender inequalities, and the all-embracing power of a police state.
The second of the letters is written by the Argentine Ingrid Pokropek (Buenos Aires, 1994). ‘The Major Tones’ It is an intimate fable that narrates the strange effects that a metal prosthesis generates in the body of a teenager, making him perceive reality in a very unique way; a narrative that presents the moment of youth in which it is discovered that there is something that begins to not fit. The CAAC will host this work on June 12 and the C3A on July 25.
The third work speaks about the journey towards adulthood, ‘How to have sex’which comes from the United Kingdom by Molly Manning Walker to the CAAC on June 19 and on August 1 to C3A. In it, a group of British teenagers in an undetermined place that could be Magaluf, Ibiza or the Adriatic Coast, begin an initiatory journey where drugs, techno music and balconies are the background landscape of the first-person portrait of a girl whose Mood fluctuates throughout 24 hours.
The fourth card is a subversive ‘road movie’ through the south of Spain, and they write it Maria Giséle Royo (Caracas, Venezuela, 1993) and Julia de Castro (Ávila, Spain, 1984). ‘On The Go’ (June 26 at the CAAC and August 8 at C3A) is a trip aboard a white Chevrolet, with music by Derby Motoreta’s Burrito Kachimbawhere characters on the edge live the desire for motherhood, the obverse of queerness, love and friendship to the surface.
From Colombia it arrives ‘Golan’, in which Orlando Cluzat (Cali, Colombia, 1975), has placed in the foreground a teenager who faces a world in which machismo, racism and xenophobia persist. A hostile vision in which he addresses himself, furthermore, grief and loss of loved ones, loneliness, the rituals of access to adult life and the crisis of the traditional family model. You can enjoy the projection on July 3 in the capital of Seville and on August 22 in Córdoba.
The last of the projections is ‘Germany’, of Maria Zanetti (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980), which will be screened on July 10 at the CAAC and on August 29 at C3A. The director places the action in Argentina at the beginning of the 90s, in a family atmosphere that will be both welcoming and suffocating, in which the protagonist will find herself at the crossroads of breaking the shell of the family home and finding her own path. . From an intimate and content tone, Zanetti constructs a story of his own adolescence.
