jopergon
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LOGLINE
A nurse who wants to be a performer. A passionate performance teacher. Some of the best performers from all over the world. A small town in the mountains.
SYNOPSIS
The small municipality of Les Escaules, in the north of Catalonia, hosts the most relevant encounter of performers that is taking place in Spain: La Muga Caula festival, which is dedicated to the French artist Marcel Duchamp. Three days where the sixty-five inhabitants of the village and their unmovable rural life is shaken by the presence of a group of artists from around the world who can be found hanging from the bell tower, mutilating themselves with a knife, or spending an hour shouting in the middle of the street simulating an abortion.
The film is a journey into the art of action through various perspectives. First, follows the passionate instructions given by Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku to a dozen students who attend a performance workshop during the festival. The disciples must follow his demanding discipline, often creating highly tense situations. Second, through the initiatory journey that one of the students of the workshop - Anna, a nurse who lives in the area-, will do to enter a new universe. And third, with the recording of several performances by some of the most relevant artists from around the world: Antoni Karkowski (Poland), Cecile Richard (France), Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia), Isabel Corullón (Spain), Eliana Beltran (Colombia), Ramon Guimaraes (Catalonia)...
Everything is riveted together by the strange coexistence and contrast that is generated during the festival between the newcomers and the locals; a contrast between the rural and the cosmopolitan; between the atavistic and the conceptual.
Genre: Documentary
Label: Arts
Lenght: 56 minutes
Format: Full HD, Stereo, 16:9
Original version: English (70%), Catalan, Spanish, French and Polish.
Versions: VO subtitled to English; VO subtitled to Catalan; VO subtitled to Spanish.
Completion date: January 2019
Available with Spanish subtitles at: FILMIN
SCREENINGS
From 5 to 13th April 2019. Media Lybrary 50th Festival Visions Du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland. + info
05/04/2019 3 ° FICCSUR, Southern Cone International Film Festival, Valparaíso, Chile. + info
17/06/2021 9th FILAF, Festival International du Livre d'Art et du Film, Perpignan, France. + info
27/06/2019 Cineclub Diòptria, Figueres, Spain. + info
08/08/2019 BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD. 10th Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya, Spain. + info
00/082019 9th Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnogràfic de l'Institut Ramon Muntaner, Spain. + info
15/08/2019 Launch of the film at the VOD platform Filmin. + info
22/08/2019 Universitat Catalana d'Estiu, Prada, France. + info
31/08/ to 29/09/2019 Screened continously at Museu de l'Emporda, Figueres, Spain. + info.
00/09/2019 31st GFF, Festival de Cinema de Girona, Spain. + info
10-13/10/2019 20th Medimed Doc Market. Sitges, Spain. + info
17/10/2019 BEST ARTS DOCUMENTARY AWARD. 36th Bogocine, Festival de Cine de Bogotá, Colombia. + info
09/11/2019 21st Lagos Book Art Festival. Lagos, Nigeria. + info
15/11/2019 Teatre Municipal de Roses, auntum lineup. Roses, Spain. + info
23/01/2020 Ateneu Llibertari de Gràcia. Barcelona, Spain. + info
29/03/2020 Online Performance Art Festival. Germany. + info
00/06/2020 The BeBop Channel Content Festival 2021. New York, United States + info
03/10/2020 Bòlit, Centre Centre d'Art Contemporani de Girona. + info
22/10/2020 Festival Contenedores. Sevilla, Spain + info