11th September GLEANERS, DEVILS AND PITS: BOLIVIAN MINING COMMUNITY FILMS

GLEANERS, DEVILS AND PITS: BOLIVIAN MINING COMMUNITY FILMS

 TALK+SCREENING

Date: Wednesday 11th of September

Place: School V 

 Organised by the Centre for Screen Cultures (CSC), the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) and the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS)

Invited speaker: Miguel Errazu (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Convener: Isabel Seguí (Dept Film Studies and St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies)

Blurb: One of the most remarkable experiments in radical film pedagogy and media proletarianisation in Latin America cinema is the Miner’s Film Workshop, held in Bolivia in 1983. The resulting thirteen films – that were thought lost for decades – have been recently found in Paris, together with the entire administrative archive of the workshop. An international research team is currently working on preserving these primary sources and developing a digital restitution project in Bolivia. This presentation will discuss the historical protagonism of women in the workshop and delve into problematic issues related to the preservation and archival activation process in the present. Moreover, for the first time in the UK, we will have the opportunity to watch two of the shorts. Join us for a rare visual treat and some academic self-criticism!