Starting this Friday, September 6th, the 2nd Nahual Film Festival will kick off, with its inaugural screening at 7:00 p.m. at the Taller Tamayo (Aldama 50, Centro), with a series of Expansive Cinema sessions by Amador Quero, Bruno Varela, Camila Ausente, Carolina Fusilier, Gabriel Elías, Miko Revereza, Javier Santos ‘Smeck’ and Yutindudi (Rolando Hernández). Access to this and other screenings is completely free and some have limited capacity.
The activities continue on Saturday, September 7th with the course Brief History of Experimental Mexican Cinema, by filmmaker Bruno Varela and Dr. Viridiana Marín, at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO) at Avenida Juárez 201-A, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The activity is free with prior registration.
On the afternoon of Saturday the 7th, various functions will be held in the Sala Elia screening space (García Vigil 106):
16:00 hrs.: NAHUAL SELECTION – Program 1: Conquista by Víctor Mortales (4 min.), Cosmos (3 min.) Madre Barro (6 min.), Mutsk Wuäjxtë’ (6 min.), Other ways of saying I love you (8 min.) Remedy for sadness (8 min.), Weavers of Destinies (20 min.)
17:30 hrs.: “NAHUAL 1: The Jaraneros of Guichicovi, by Yovegami Ascona (29 min). Oaxacan works by Julia Barco (20 min.). Presented by Roberto López”
19:00 hrs.: NAHUAL SELECTION – Program 2: I want to die in this house (70 min.)
20:30 hrs.: NAHUAL NOCTURNO: The Living Idol by Albert Lewin and René Cardona
On Sunday, September 8, the performances continue at Sala Elia:
13:00 hrs.: NAHUAL SELECTION – Program 3: Voices on gentrification in Oaxaca by Paola Flores (11 min.) + Talk
14:00 hrs.: BIONIC VIEW ARCHIVE – Works by Ana Santos, Luna Marán, Rosa Vellejo, Damián López, Saúl López Velarde, Steven Brown
16:00 hrs.: NAHUAL SELECTION – Program 4: The Harvest, Ra Savi, Yaa Ye’e: Quartz Deities by Julio Saavedra
And at the point of the 18:00 hrs. at Taller Popular (Porfirio Díaz 413), the Nahual Closing Ceremony will take place, led by Kumantuk Xuxpë, a musician from the Mixe nation, who will provide live music for the pieces Juchitán Tercera parte, Juchitán IV and Oaxaca, archives of the Genaro V. Vásquez Library’s Film Fund.
The Nahual Film Festival is a meeting of Oaxacan cinema without contours or maps, which seeks to conjure up the unpronounceable, always in a foreign and strange construction. This festival is organized by Salón de Cines Múltiples (SACIMU) and has the support of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) through the program: Fomento al Cine Mexicano (FOCINE).
Source: sucedioenocaxaca
