Special Screenings
Resistance Reels
Caja de resistencia / Concha Barquero Artés, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar / Spain, Portugal / 2024 / 99′
After his death, Fernando Ruiz Vergara left behind dozens of notes and film scripts that he was never able to make. The Andalusian filmmaker had directed only one documentary, Rocío, stifled by the judicial censorship suffered in the early years of democracy in Spain. Since then, his projects have remained dormant in imagination and desire. In Resistance Reels, the filmmakers recount these dreamed projects in order to reinterpret them from the present as a gesture of resistance.
Director Concha Barquero Artés, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar
Screenplay Concha Barquero Artés, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar
Editing Concha Barquero Artés, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar
Music Paloma Peñarrubia
Mix Antonio S. Peñalba
Produced by Sara Sánchez, José Manuel Rodríguez, Concha Barquero, Hemi Fortes, Filipe Araújo
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 2, May 31, 3:30 p.m.
Interviene l’autore
Concha Barquero Artés, Alejandro Alvarado Jódar
Concha Barquero Artés and Alejandro Alvarado Jódar (Malaga, 1975) are filmmakers and researchers. Since the early 2000s they have formed a creative duo working in Andalusia. Throughout their career they have explored the possibilities of different media, such as cultural television and creative documentary, an area in which they specialize. Their films deal with themes such as absence, memory, history and politics. The use of archival material, their own and others’, is one of their main areas of experimentation.