Trazas sessions, in collaboration with Cineclube de Compostela, will explore cinema from the 1950s and the colonial model—with humour and subversion of social norms as key elements—representing the simplification and idealisation of ‘civilisation’ versus the ‘wild’. They will also delve into late-1980s cinema, focusing on the Western explorer or scholar.
SCREENINGS
SESSION 1. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 9.30 P.M. TEATRO PRINCIPAL
Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal starting one hour before the projection.
Moustapha Alassane
Niger, 1966
34 min. OVSES
Jimmy, back from a trip to the United States, returns to his village in Niger. He brings complete Wild West cowboy outfits as gifts for his friends. From now on, dressing according to American mythology, they are no longer called Kali, Ibrahim, or Boubakar, but Black Cooper, James Kelly, Casse-Tout, or even Reine Christine. And considering what an authentic band of cowboys is, they will pillage the region, angering the villagers.
David and Judith MacDougall
USA, 1970
15 min. OVSGAL
1968, a Jie farmer community in Uganda. Male sociability develops in a Jie cattle camp as men gather under a special tree to talk, relax, sleep, or work with leather tools. Suddenly, the conversation focuses on the Europeans’ most conspicuous possession, the motor vehicle, and the relative worth of cars and men.
Kidlat Tahimik,
Phillipines, 2006
20 min. OVSGAL
The need and the way to build a roof is not an abstract theoretical question: “Every person needs to have a good roof!” While director Kidlat Tahimik was travelling all over the planet, what impressed him the most was how people all over the world built their roofs. Tahimik’s definition of “Third World” is: how much a person depends on electricity to live. The less dependence, the more you belong to the “Third World”!
SESSION 2. THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 7.00 P.M. TEATRO PRINCIPAL
Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal starting one hour before the projection.
UN DESSERT POUR CONSTANCE
Sarah Maldoror
France, 1981
60 min. OVSES
In the 1970s, Bokolo and Mamadou, immigrant street sweepers of the city of Paris, were looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick colleagues. When they discover an old cookery book in the rubbish, they come up with the idea of participating in a game show consisting of accurately listing the ingredients of the best French cuisine dishes. Thus, they learn the recipes for sauces, side dishes, and desserts by heart.
SESSION 3. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 7.00H TEATRO PRINCIPAL
Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal starting one hour before the projection.
AL-NASR AL-TAIR
José Ernesto Díaz-Noriega
Galicia, 1969
49 min. OV
For the celebration of a tribute to a Francoist aviation general named Eduardo Pardo, the Carballo City Council commissioned Díaz-Noriega to take images of the ceremony as a propaganda film. José Ernesto, equipped with his irreverent sense of humour, does not pay attention to the synchronicity between sound and image. He puts into the mouths of local authorities voice-overs from advertisements or broadsides taken out of context, largely subverting the intentions of the contracting entity.