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Once I entered a garden
Estudi General Lul·lià Carrer de Sant Roc, 4, Palma, Islas Baleares, España
A Night of Knowing Nothing
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaA university student in India writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds. Followed by a recorded interview with the director.
Human, more than human
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainIn the philosophical proposal that Esquirol has been developing, the concept of poetics occupies a very special place, which is not only linked to the arts but to everything that contributes to generating and creating justice, beauty and warmth. This exhibition will explain in what sense the escalation of the human and the world are […]
The Wound of Creation
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainThe session will address some of the most painful entanglements of filmmaking. Doubts about form and tone, loneliness and emptiness during the process, and the intimacy of what is exposed in the film we are making will be some of the questions that three of the filmmakers participating in this edition of MajorDocs will discuss. […]
Herbaria
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaHerbaria is a film about preservation work of two symbiotic universes, the botanical and film, and everything they share: the delicacy of their manual art, the resistance of their method against the passage of time, the power of the image over the power of oblivion. The future of humanity rests on these people who try […]
The Beach of Enchaquirados
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaVicky is a fisherman by day and a bar owner by night. Through her, we get to know a transgender community in a fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. Do we learn to accept others over time, or do deviations cloud our ability to see? With the presence of the director.
Memory boxes
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainMemory boxes or multimedia files stored on my external hard disk was the trigger for a trilogy about my memory through the digitised images of my own video tapes (renouncing the analogue) and the assumption of a non-physical, nostalgic and ghostly material. From this experience emerged my three most personal films, because they are self-referential: […]
Domesticated Cinema
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainA talk on domestic cinema, reflecting on the creative value of the home film archive, the re-signification of memory and the past, the role of film libraries and film archives, the challenges and opportunities that arise in this cinema of memory and the place of home cinema. This session will feature Pablo Gómez Sala, founder […]
Rampart
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaMarko spends time in the abandoned apartment of his childhood in Belgrade. Traces of the past are being drawn and memories, both idyllic and traumatic, are combined. The family VHS archive shows his universe during 1998 and 1999: gatherings, pets, videogames, and moments of uncertainty reveal a common life embraced by a historical event. With […]
Reframing the Home Movie
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainThe talk will delve into the specific characteristics of home movies and amateur films, as well as the different methods of recontextualizing them in new artistic works that bring a personal and original point of view of this film heritage. We will address the crucial ethical and aesthetic questions raised by the reuse of this […]
Aftersun
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaPerhaps a thriller, perhaps a tale of apprenticeship, perhaps an ironic evocation of a strange summer and its aftermath, Aftersun is a mysterious and unclassifiable film, a proposal that dynamites the conventional language of cinema to enter unknown territories. And best of all, it still provides unlimited pleasure and fun. With the presence of the […]
