SPECIAL SESSIONS
We propose a set of Special Sessions: a retrospective look at the work of the filmmaker Adriana Vila as well as a set of film sessions a la fresca; as is the case of the film Un sol radiante (2023) by Mònica Cambra and Ariadna Fortuny. Even so, we pay attention to the cinema made in the valley, revisiting the amateur films Apuntes del Vall de Ribes (1975-76) by Josep Mas, Manel Tomàs, Pere Casanelles and we explore the living materiality of the Sagadell river with the piece The intricate Dance (2022) by Jodie Chinn. We have the opportunity to premiere, on a national scale, the film Para no olvidar (2023) by Laura Gabay.
Saturday, 24th August
Open air cinema – Plaça del Mercat – 21:30h
Free session.
Notes from Ribes Valley
(SECOND PART)
Josep Mas, Manel Tomàs, Pere Casanelles
1975-76. 30’. Catalonia. VOC. Super-8.
*With the presence of Manel Tomàs (Photography Director).
The Gollut Festival continues to delve into the audiovisual memory of the Ribes de Freser valley and its surroundings. This year, we are screening the second part of the home recordings from the film ‘Notes from the Ribes Valley.’ The film will be shown on Super 8, in an open-air cinema session at the Town Hall Square.
Throughout 1975 and 1976, Josep Mas, Manel Tomàs, and Pere Casanelles captured the landscape of the Ribes de Freser Valley, the life of the village and its surroundings, and a series of events that took place in the area. These recordings, made from an intimate and selfless perspective, are now a testimony that shapes the space of personal memory. The images, from a distance, place us in contemporary space and time. They revisit what is absent, shaping a microhistory beyond the official narrative, and make us question our present situation.
Thursday, August 29
Shortfilm session and conference (65′). Cinema Catalunya – 17:30h
Ticket sales at the box office
RETROSPECTIVE VIEW: Adriana Vila
Visión Intertropical
Intertropical Vision
Adriana Vila
2018. 5’. Spain, Venezuela. VO (no dialogue). 16 mm, Optical Sound to Digital.
Contrary to the standardisation of a single hegemonic point of view, the “centre” in the tropics is not the whole. It is the starting point of a powerful range of visions. This is a trip into the core of its multiple indomitable condition.
Produced in Crater-Lab (Barcelona) + Optical sound and prints at L’Abominable (Paris)
Habitar los silencios
Adriana Vila
Inhabiting Silences
Adriana Vila
2021. 4’. Spain, Australia. VO (no dialogue). 16 mm a digital.
Spanish Premiere.
From impotence to the loss of identity and creativity, he plays what she is feeling and living: the transition from pain and loss, into empowerment.
Created for SIGMUN, piece “Cellolamento”.
The Womb
L’úter
Adriana Vila
2021. 3,40’. Spain. VOE. 16 mm to digital.
The womb. Rattles its pod, the moon. Discharges itself from the tree with nowhere to go. My landscape is a hand with no lines. The roads bunched to a knot.The knot myself. Myself the rose you acheive—-This body. This ivory…” Fragment of Childless Woman (Sylvia Plath).Created for the multidisciplinary spectacle Género imposible (Silvia Perez Cruz)
Los nudos que anudamos
Adriana Vila
2022. 8′. Espanya, VOE. 16mm a digital.
A careful translation of shared thinking. An applied sketch of becoming and generating-with. Intertwined trail walkers. A silhouette of the reflexive encounter, in its most mundane condition. Becoming what the other suggests. Accepting the proposal of subjectivity. Apprising the way in which everything is addressed to each other.
Opening versions like books, in the exercise of string figures, speculating with stories so they can be on going.
Intersticis Compositius
Conference 45’.
With Adriana Vila
Through the screening of a selection of 16mm short films by filmmaker and anthropologist Adriana Vila Guevara, the author will reveal the foundations and secrets underlying the stages of her creative work, including short films, feature films, and expanded cinema. This performative lecture will explore the genealogy of her creative processes, in dialogue and collaboration with other artists such as Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Rocío Molina, Isaki Lacuesta, El Niño de Elche, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Florian Sighartner, and Adriano Galante. It is an opening of the compositional (formal and conceptual) chest of an artist who has built her creative path in constant connection with the inspiring and transformative power of nature, using cinema as alchemy, with responsibility, intuition, conviction, and commitment.
Open-Air Cinema – Hotel Catalunya Park – 21:30h
Inverse locker
Un sol radiant
A shining sun
Mònica Cambra, Ariadna Fortuny.
2023. 79’. Catalonia. VOC. Digital.
*With the presence of Mònica Cambra (codirector).
These are the last days of life on earth, before the intended final outcome, and Mila (Laia Artigas) faces this unprecedented situation trying to understand all that this entails for her. Striving to keep her family together, she decides to organise a celebration party for when the final moment arrives. This debut feature, winner of the D’A Film Festivals 2023, delves into the dimension of the bond and responds to the discouragement that often underpins stories about the end of the world.
Friday, August 30
Cinema Catalunya – 17:30h
Ticket sales at the box office
Para no olvidar
Not to forget
Laura Gabay
2023. 61’. Switzerland, France, Uruguay. VOE. Súper-8 a digital. Spanish Premiere.
*With the presence of Laura Gabay (Director).
Para no olvidar explores the videographic relationship between two exiles. After the death of her father, director Laura Gabay tries to solve the mystery of the father figure, who fled the Uruguayan dictatorship, through a collage work based on family archives. A hypnotically beautiful film that bears witness to the pain of exile and the great changes of the last century.
