Selection 15 - SHAMELESS MEMORIES FROM LATIN AMERICA 2

31 March, 2024 - 19:00
Paddenhoek
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MEMORIAS SINVERGÜENZAS DE LATINOAMÉRICA
SHAMELESS MEMORIES FROM LATIN AMERICA 

Initiatives from the past and present converge to unearth queer memories from Latin America. Filmmakers and archivists seek to rethink their connections with their ancestors to impact the present. In the first part, young artists reimagine the links between identity and territory in Colombia and Mexico to invite indigenous representations, deities, creatures, and monsters to descend from their dwellings and dance to the rhythm of their struggles and celebrations. In the second part, traveling archivists venture into the Brazilian territory with mobile digitization systems in search of rescuing forgotten memories: they recover queer short films that depict a diverse Brazil during times of repression and conservatism in the 1980s.

PART 2 / BRASIL: RE-DISCOVERING QUEER MEMORIES

During the past year, archivists from Cinelimite traveled with their Travelling Digitalization project to different parts of Brazil to digitize materials from regions of the country with limited access to scanning services. Upon encountering and dusting off materials, they unearthed a Brazilian queer stream. In hybrids between documentary and fiction, the short films show perspectives on how homosexuality was perceived in those years, overlaying images of love and pleasure in orgasmic and Dionysian states, where nature generates the necessary spatial intimacy for their bonds to triumph.

 

In the presence of Laura Batitucci

Curated by Alejo Duclós

In collaboration with EQZE - Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

Baltazar da Lomba

Nós Também
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BR
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1982
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digital
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20'

“Fornicate! Fornicate to your content, for the Earth belongeth to the king and nobody hath been to hell for fornicating”. This film dramatizes facts that took place during Brazil’s colonial period and which are the first record of homosexual repression in the state of Paraiba. In its own way, Baltazar da Lomba resisted that oppression just as we continue to resist for free sexuality.

Era Vermelho Seu Batom

Henrique Magalhães
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BR
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1983
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digital
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12'

“In order to set my heart free, I want more than a slowpaced song. I want new dance moves. The Pleasure Gang everyone’s talking about. It’s no far-fetched quest. I want the Pleasure Gang. Who wouldn’t?” During Carnival, gender performativity shifts, and it becomes an appropriate space for masculinity to give way to femininity, and desires emerge to the rhythm of the drum. Cross-dressers emerge in the daylight, ready for battle.

Closes

Pedro Nunes
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BR
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1982
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digital
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32'

"Do not seize a dark love with white lace. What is most beautiful is this. To stay, to fight, because love is an act of resistance.” Closes was made during the peak of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil, characterized by political repression, arbitrary detentions, censorship, and prohibitions on addressing topics related to sexual freedom in the context of cinema and the arts. This film challenges and confronts this political situation to explore the theme of sexuality, highlighting the prejudices related to affection between people of the same sex. In the midst, a romance through letters generates images of love, tenderness, lust and pleasure.