SHORTS BY VIRGINIA GARCÍA DEL PINO
SCREENINGS IN THE TERRARIUM
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Date
3 June 2011
Venue
Nave 17. Nave una
Programme
Intermediae
Virginia García del Pino (Barcelona, 1966) is a non-fiction film director and project director of the Máster de Documental Creativo (Master's degree in Creative Documentary) at UAB- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. After completing her Fine Arts degree, her work as a videoartist brought her to the documentary approach. Her videos come from a temptation to understand the world from a less painful viewpoint and it is possibly this intent which makes her frequently choose a decisively formal simplicity. Her shorts have been screened in places like MNCARS and CCCB and have competed in many festivals and audiovisual programs, such as FID Marseille and Les Rencontres Internationales, Alcances, Miradasdoc and the Festival Internacional de Cine of Cali.
Friday, June 3, the DOCMA association begins the series entitled Miradas al extranjero: nuevos autores del documental español (Glances abroad: New authors of Spanish documentary film), screening three short films by Virginia García del Pino.
>Pare de sufrir (Stop suffering), 2002 (Spain). Documentary. Director: Virginia García del Pino. Length: 5'. Language: Spanish. The original format of this video was a slideshow with sound. The images- reflections on consumer society, the difficulties and the cultural and religious features of the city- are mixed jarringly with the sound: a melange of voices created by reading texts and doing interviews with people on the streets of Guadalajara, Mexico. The feedback produced by the clashing images and sounds creates a fluid rhythm that is capable of de-dramatising the narration with a touch of humour.
>Hágase tu voluntad (Your will be done), 2004 (Spain). Documentary. Director: Virginia García del Pino. Length: 22'. Language: Spanish. The relationship between the "señora" (lady) and the "sirvienta" (servant) as captured by interviews done in Mexico shows us how these employees are indispensable for upper- and middle-class women who have freed themselves to have it all: husband, kids, and work. This documentary is not trying to denounce an unfavourable work arrangement; all the employees are happy with their wages and are treated with respect. But within this normality and mutual understanding there is something in the servant-lady relationship that is different from any other employee-employeer relationship, something to do with the matter of serving, something to do with living with another person's family and in another reality so far removed from one's own reality. There's something hidden in these images, in the way one behaves in front of the camera and how the other does it, in their gestures, in how each one sits down, in what they say and, above all, what they don't say.
>Lo que tú dices que soy (What you say I am), 2007 (Spain). Documentary. Director: Virginia García del Pino. Length: 28'. Language: Spanish. A profession or lack thereof as a role to act out. A uniform as a costume. The workplace as a set. And in the audience: society, trusting the actors will stick to their lines. With a series of interviews with workers whose jobs are frowned upon, this documentary urges us to reflect intelligently upon the modern concept of one's work as a token of his identity, while simultaneously inviting us to question it as our only road to personal fulfillment. The judicious choices made by its characters allow us to read between the lines to discover that, behind the prejudice- dealt with here in a very humourous way- lie deep-seeded taboos like uncleanliness, death, and sex.
The screening will be followed by a colloquium-chat led by Virginia García del Pino and DOCMA.
Friday, June 3, the DOCMA association begins the series entitled Miradas al extranjero: nuevos autores del documental español (Glances abroad: New authors of Spanish documentary film), screening three short films by Virginia García del Pino.
>Pare de sufrir (Stop suffering), 2002 (Spain). Documentary. Director: Virginia García del Pino. Length: 5'. Language: Spanish. The original format of this video was a slideshow with sound. The images- reflections on consumer society, the difficulties and the cultural and religious features of the city- are mixed jarringly with the sound: a melange of voices created by reading texts and doing interviews with people on the streets of Guadalajara, Mexico. The feedback produced by the clashing images and sounds creates a fluid rhythm that is capable of de-dramatising the narration with a touch of humour.
>Hágase tu voluntad (Your will be done), 2004 (Spain). Documentary. Director: Virginia García del Pino. Length: 22'. Language: Spanish. The relationship between the "señora" (lady) and the "sirvienta" (servant) as captured by interviews done in Mexico shows us how these employees are indispensable for upper- and middle-class women who have freed themselves to have it all: husband, kids, and work. This documentary is not trying to denounce an unfavourable work arrangement; all the employees are happy with their wages and are treated with respect. But within this normality and mutual understanding there is something in the servant-lady relationship that is different from any other employee-employeer relationship, something to do with the matter of serving, something to do with living with another person's family and in another reality so far removed from one's own reality. There's something hidden in these images, in the way one behaves in front of the camera and how the other does it, in their gestures, in how each one sits down, in what they say and, above all, what they don't say.
>Lo que tú dices que soy (What you say I am), 2007 (Spain). Documentary. Director: Virginia García del Pino. Length: 28'. Language: Spanish. A profession or lack thereof as a role to act out. A uniform as a costume. The workplace as a set. And in the audience: society, trusting the actors will stick to their lines. With a series of interviews with workers whose jobs are frowned upon, this documentary urges us to reflect intelligently upon the modern concept of one's work as a token of his identity, while simultaneously inviting us to question it as our only road to personal fulfillment. The judicious choices made by its characters allow us to read between the lines to discover that, behind the prejudice- dealt with here in a very humourous way- lie deep-seeded taboos like uncleanliness, death, and sex.
The screening will be followed by a colloquium-chat led by Virginia García del Pino and DOCMA.