Cine Norte / Cine Sur

October 21st - October 28th
ONLINE - VUCAVU

Duration: 1 hour 54 mins

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LINK TO VIEW: https://vucavu.com/en/alucinefestival/cine-norte-cine-sur

*ALL FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*
Regular screenings are restricted to those 18 years of age or older according to the Ontario Theatres Act.

For our 20th anniversary, aluCine has chosen to focus on some of the country’s most prominent and compelling female filmmakers. And with that in mind, we’ve decided to celebrate some of Canada’s most exciting up-and-coming women in the industry.

These artists have not only carved out a space for themselves within a film culture that has not always supported women and gender-neutral individuals but are also paving the way for those to come. Some work within existing funding bodies to expand the diversity and scope of what gets subsidized, while others have opted for a more lo-fi DIY approach to make sure their voices - and often the marginalized voices within their communities - are heard.

The Latino mark in all of these films tells histories and stories of different kinds of integration, alienation, love and mourning within contemporary Canadian society, helping to make a multicultural and diverse tapestry. The importance of the Latin (as) filmmakers is their own ethnic and cultural mestizaje, their role as bridges between different cultures, languages, and experiences of immigration, re-adaptation and non-assimilation that are happening now in North America.

The film program of independent experimental short films focuses on the multilingual visions and diverse socio-political perspectives female artists bring to Latino-Canadian media art, Pan-American and universal. A tribute to all Latin-Canadian women.

This program will be available to view online through VUCAVU.

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Sin ataduras / Unbound

Claudia Morgado Escanilla

1996 - 19 mins - Canada - Documentary

An artistic documentary about how 14 women feel about their breasts.

Saudade Memory

Petunia Alvez and Marik Boudreau

2001 - Canada - 16 mins - Essay Film

February 2nd, day of Yemanja. Childhood memories fuel the exploration of Afro-Brazilian rituals rendered in Saudade, Memory.

The Seam-stress

Julia Iriarte

2004 - Canada - 18 mins - Dark Comedy

The Seam-stress is a dark comedy about a girl called Mirna who is sexually repressed and psychologically abused by her sick mother and her struggle to liberate herself. The movie expresses how fear and negativity stand in the way of this character creating her own limitations to find happiness.

Entre Piernas / Between Legs

Gricel Severino

2005 - Canada - 7 mins - LGBTQ

Entre Piernas is a playful music video. Through the music the narrative unfolds the seduction between Alba, a transgender who identifies herself as a lesbian, and Papi who is a drag king. The video describes the notion of gender and plays with sex roles, as well as sending up both queer Latin culture and sexuality.

Anonymous, 1855

Madi Piller

2005 - Canada - 2 mins - Experimental

First Prize for best short submitted by a Canadian film co-op, Festival of Forbidden Fruit, 2005

Antique photographs are animated in a subtle manner to rebuild the past through the voyeur’s eye.

Love Effect

Juana Awad

2006 - Canada/UK - 4 mins - Experimental

A game of light and negative space created by duplicating and layering footage of two entangled naked bodies. A poem to shorten the distance between you and me.

Vos / You

Guillermina Buzio

2006 - Argentina/Canada - 5 mins - Experimental

In meeting with myself. A personal documentary about my mother.

Monument to Ciudad Juarez: Only Women Who Die a Violent Death Go Directly to Paradise

Claudia Bernal

2007 - Canada - 3 mins - Experimental

Inspired by the violent murders of more than 300 women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. In this city, in the land of no one and everyone that comprises the border, thousands of women survive dreaming of “paradise.” The desert, haunted by female silhouettes, is a metaphor for isolation, loneliness, and identity uprooting.

Convergences et Rencontres

Lina Rodriguez

2007 - Canada - 6 mins - Experimental

Part of a series of experimental short films that explore my perception of tourist sites and their histories through light, texture and movement, Convergences et rencontres is a collection of impressions of an afternoon at the labyrinthine Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Given that the Mini DV camera that I had borrowed for this trip had a broken viewfinder, I had no other choice but to use the camera as a sort of extension of my arm in order to find other ways to connect to that space and moment. As a result, I decided to use the very action and rhythm of my walking as another way of "seeing.”

Retrato Oficiala / Official Portrait

Francisca Duran

2009 - Canada - 4 mins - Experimental

Retrato Oficiala animates the dissimulation and reconstruction of the great liberator of Chile, 19th-century revolutionary and republican Bernardo O’Higgins, and the historical reach of the late 20th century dictator Augusto Pinochet. Based in part on a concept borrowed from Raul Ruiz’s essay “Images of Images” and original footage shot by Patricio Guzman on September 11, 1973. The film is an exploration of the mediated image and the mnemonic possibilities of video and still image technologies.

Swiftly

Cecilia Velasco

2009 - Canada - 2 mins - Animation

Spoken word love poem taking place in a dream within a dream.

Borders

Alexandra Gelis

2010 - Canada - 3 mins - Experimental

A masterpiece of multi-screen bodily decomposition, Borders offers a nine-screen collective portrait, made entirely out of photographs. Inviting six of her queer feminist housemates who identified as women for a suite of portrait sessions, the artist pictures the borders of skin, and by recombining them into a grid creates an always shifting composite body that floats between genders. The soundtrack is created out of the spaces between words, the beginnings of sentences, the pauses and hesitations, where the unconscious lives. (Mike Hoolboom)

ReOriented in Sao Paulo

SoJin Chun

2010 - Canada/Brazil - 5 mins - Experimental/Documentary

ReOriented in Sao Paulo takes a light-hearted look at the complexities of immigration and cultural integration. To be ReOriented in Sao Paulo, for the Korean community portrayed in this video, signifies re-adaptation and cultural transformation. The narrative is told whimsically, through the perspective of a Korean-style Hot Dog walking through Bom Retiro, a Korean neighbourhood. In its journey, the hot dog encounters and interacts with locals, revealing the diversity of characters that live and work together in this area.

Exercises in Faith: Embrace

Julieta Maria

2011 - Canada - 6 mins - Experimental

In this video Julieta holds a fish, a sea bass, while it dies. The video explores her relationship with a living animal normally destined to consumption and finds common ground in the cycle of life and death. She embraces guilt and embraces what is other while suffocating it: A sacrificial rite that intends to take the fish out of his place as object of consumption and imagines a continuum or connection based in our mortality.

Performance as an Act of Survival

Claudia Bernal

2012 - Canada - 5 mins - Experimental

A performance manifesto. Performance is not subjected to an order that is alien to it, it must be left to organise itself. I therefore reject all attempts to mould and all attempts to construct a form that would be imposed from the outside. I propose to promote the body and matter, to show them for what they are, to benefit from their imperfections, and even to follow their tendency toward uncertainty and disorder.

Presque Vu

Cecilia Araneda

2013 - Canada - 4 mins - Experimental

Lush handcrafted film footage and HD images are combined to reveal a mysterious past through remnants of a memory that is almost remembered, but which never fully develops.

Anna Torma

Nadine Gomez

2020 - Canada - 3 mins - Documentary

Floating in the wind like a breeze, sweeping off the autumn leaves, a voice recites a poem in Hungarian, a language that once brought us into the world and through which an art we inherited. And the brightness of Nature pierces through the large window of Baie Verte. Anna Torma, a luminous and playful textile artist, weaves and embroiders her works to reconnect with the world and to connect with us. This short documentary portrait brings us right there, close to her.