“Experiencing shared learning could also involve approaching that point at which one stops creating work, of wanting a product, where cinema no longer attains images, as suggested by Peter Pál Pelbart with regard to Fernand Deligny. Attaining things as a process or as an event, wherever they emerge, occur and are repeated by being different, without the aim of encapsulating them in a mould for their dissemination in the media.. The value of the document today could lie instead in generating a debate or an interrogation, that of representing an invitation to participate in this process, not that of a witness of a supposed truth to be disseminated.” Continue reading

Jorge Moreno, anthropologist and filmmaker expert in memory and repression, reflects about the film Libertad on how audiovisual anthropology can face the use of materials from the past, a complex exercise that involves both thinking the cinematographic language and the interpretation of sensitive materials or the limits of representation.

 

“The control exerted by concepts in the analysis of reality when we write a text is not transferable to film language. “Closing of concept” does not work well with “opening by film” […]  The interesting thing about this dialogue is precisely to understand that the marriage of anthropology and cinema works in the sense that concept is renounced and context embraced; those situations that, selected cinematographically, remind us that one of the ways to produce knowledge in this discipline lies in offering a place from which to look at reality”. Continue reading

We published the rapporteurships and reflections that emerged from the last Laav_18 Meetings, in which we deal with a common Museum-University space for research and creation.


Relatorías. Elena Sánchez Nagore, Coral Bullón, Zoe Hernández and Pablo Coca.

Meetings Laav_2018. Museums and University: research on a hybrid space. Lorenzo Bordonaro.
The submerged part of the iceberg. Audiovisual Education between the museum and the university. Javier Fernández Vázquez.
Practicing  experimentation linked to audiovisual anthropology. 
Sara Sama Acedo.

 

The new issue of Concreta, the research journal about image, dedicated to the project Cine por venir (“Cinema to come”), includes an article about Laav_: An experience of creation and social research in the educational department of a contemporary art museum. An image of the latest production of La Rara troupe, La humana perfecta, illustrates the cover. The presentation of the journal takes place on Thursday November 29 at the Filmoteca of Valencia, with Pere Portabella, Nuria Enguita Mayo (Concreta), Sonia Martínez (Cine por venir) and Sofía Asencio (Sociedad Doctor Alonso).

After screening at the Ethnographic Film Festival of Ecuador (Quito), Alcances (Cádiz), La Cabina (Valencia), LAN- Audiovisual Festival Obrero (Bilbao) and Etnovideográfica (Zamora), you can watch the film on Filmin platform.

We publish two new texts around Puta mina (Damned mine): The voices of the mine. Regarding the process in creating Puta mina (Damned Mine), by Chus Domínguez, and La palabra frente a la oscuridad, un prólogo para Puta Mina, by Daniel Bernabé