The Department of Film & Media Arts is pleased to announce a residency with screendance practitioner, curator, and documentary filmmaker Silvina Szperling, who will visit the University of Utah for two evenings of film on October 17 and 19.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17
On October 17th, Szperling will present a curated collection of screendance works from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba. Eleven award-winning Screendance films will be shown in the Carolyn Tanner Humanities Theater, here’s what’s in store:
EN LA HUELLA DEL ANCLA / IN THE ANCHOR PRINT
LEANDRO NAVALL & MERCEDES CHANQUIA AGUIRRE, 6’46’’, ARGENTINA, 2017
LADO A / SIDE A
ALEJANDRINA GROISMAN & MARIA SOL GOROSTERRAZÚ, 6´36´ ,ARGENTINA
PELLEJO / SKIN
(FEDERICO M. PANIZZA, 8:’45’´, ARGENTINA, 2017)
CONNECTION LOST
(MARILU AGUILAR, 4’, MEXICO, 2016)
LISPECTORANDO
(PRISCILA QUEIROZ & MARIO SPATIZZIANI, 9’, BRAZIL, 2015)
WEREWOLF HEART
(DALEL BACRE & CHRISTIAN WEBER, 4’, MEXICO, 2016)
SZIS
(SILVINA SZPERLING, LUCIA CAMPINS & ROSA VIDOMLIANSKY, 11’, ARGENTINA, 2005)
FRAGMENTO / FRAGMENT
(VERÓNICA ABARCA LARA, 4’37’’, CUBA, 2018)
MUERTE AL DOGMA / DEATH TO THE DOGMA
(ADRIANA LOPEZ GARIBAY & LUVYEN MEDEROS, 6’44’’, CUBA, 2018)
YLÒGICO / YLOGIKAL
(CAMILO CONSTAIN, 7’, CUBA, 2018)
TÚ O MI NOCHE EN LA CASA DEL SEÑOR RANA / YOU, OR MY EVENING AT MR. FROG’S
(SAMUEL GRANADOS, 6’, CUBA, 2018)
Don’t miss this amazing collection of films October 17th at 6:30pm, on campus at the Carolyn Tanner Humanities Building (CTIHB) room 101.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
On October 19, there will be a special screening of Szperling’s celebrated documentary, Reflejo Narcisa, which features the work and life of Narcisa Hirsh, who is widely considered to be the “mother of experimental film in Argentina”.
"Narcisa Hirsch (Berlin, 1928) is the mother of experimental film in Argentina. Although her work was born amidst utterly difficult historical circumstances, or maybe for that reason, Hirsch’s films have constituted a space of freedom and resistance. REFLEJO NARCISA (NARCISA REFLECTION) observes a woman in her last journey, witnessing how this woman looks at herself in her work. It will be necessary to take the risk of drowning, in order to know oneself."
- Szperling
Join us for a screening of Reflejo Narcisa, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Silvina Szperling on Friday, October 19 at 7 pm in the Carolyn Tanner Humanities Building (CTIHB) room 101
ABOUT SILVINA SZPERLING
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvina Szperling has choreographed since the ‘80s, both for the stage and site-specific pieces. In 1993 she made her first videodance piece Temblor, which received the “Best Editing” Prize in Argentina and is held at the New York Public Library’s Dance Collection as well as the National Museum of Fine Artes (Buenos Aires).
Ms. Szperling is Founder Director of the International Festival VideoDanzaBA, and is founding member of Latin American Forum of Videodance, recently evolved into Ibero American Network of Videodance (REDIV). VideoDanzaBA celebrated its 20th. Anniversary in 2015, and it’s the oldest screendance festival in Latin America. www.VideoDanzaBA.com. Silvina also served for 6 years as co-director for the Contemporary Dance Festival, organized by the city of Buenos Aires. As a curator, she extensively toured programs of VideoDanzaBA, including venues such as The Smithsonian Institute (Washington DC), dance screen festival at The Hague and Brighton, among others.
Szperling currently teaches at the Arts Criticism Department at UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes/National University of the Arts), in Buenos Aires. She has been intensively teaching seminars and workshops through Argentina and Latin America for the last 10 years. Highlights are the Cinema School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and the Federal Program of Videodance, which has covered in 2014 the remote regions of Patagonia, NOA (North West) and NEA (North East), giving access to screendance tools to artists and students who live distant to the main cities of the country. In 2015, Szperling was a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah, and the University of California in Berkeley (USA) as well as at TEAK/University of Helsinki (Finland).
