Julio García Espinosa & ‘imperfect cinema’
Workshop and screenings at BIMI
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
17-18 March 2017 – Register here
Julio interviewed in 1983
Money Puzzles screens in Havana
‘Money Puzzles’ will screen at the Havana International Film Festival 2016
in the section ‘Other Latitudes – Documentary Panorama’
Thursday 15 December, 8pm / Friday 16 December, 10am
Infanta Cinema 4
Retrospective in Mexico
The Seminario Universitario de Análisis Cinematográfico and
La Filmoteca de UNAM are holding a retrospective of films by Michael Chanan
25-28 September 2014, Sala Carlos Monsiváis
25 MEMORIA INTERRUMPIDA/ INTERRUPTED MEMORY
Dir. Michael Chanan /Reino Unido/2013/116 min.
Función: jueves 25/ 16:00 hrs.
CIUDAD SECRETA / SECRET CITY
Dir. Michael Chanan /Reino Unido/2012/ 72 min.
Función: jueves 25/ 18:30 hrs.
26 DETROIT, RUINA DE UNA CIUDAD/ DETROIT, RUIN OF A CITY
Dirs. George Steinmetz y Michael Chanan / E.U.A. y Reino Unido/2005/ 95 min.
Función: viernes 26/ 16:00 hrs.
MESA REDONDA
EL CINE DE MICHAEL CHANAN
David Wood (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas)
Ana Daniela Nahmad (Seminario Universitario de Análisis Cinematográfico)
Iván Pinto (Universidad de Chile)
Michael Chanan (Roehampton University)
Moderador: Javier Ramírez (Seminario Universitario de Análisis Cinematográfico)
Horario: viernes 26/ 18:00 hrs.
27 EL AMERICANO QUE ELECTRIFICÓ RUSIA /
THE AMERICAN WHO ELECTRIFIED RUSSIA
Dir. Michael Chanan / Reino Unido/1992 2009/ 105 min 95 min.
Función: sábado 27/ 18:00 hrs.
28 RAÍCES DEL TERCER CINE /ROOTS OF THIRD CINEMA
Dir. Michael Chanan / Reino Unido/1983/ 28 min.
RETRATO DE BIRRI
Dir. Michael Chanan / Reino Unido/2013/ 30 min.
TRES CORTAS PELÍCULAS ACERCA DE CHILE /
THREE SHORT FILMS ABOUT CHILE
Dir. Michael Chanan / Reino Unido – Chile / 2011 / 34 min.
Función: domingo 28/ 16:30 hrs.
Michael will also give a keynote lecture at
IV COLOQUIO UNIVERSITARIO
DE ANÁLISIS CINEMATOGRÁFICO
1 al 3 de octubre de 2014
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ciudad Universitaria, México.
under the title
“Del cine militante al video activismo: Re-enfoque del documental político”
Putney Debater en La Habana
Algunos informes sobre mis actividades en el 35 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano…
Variedad temática desde la documentalística
El Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano estrena, en su 35 edición, la cinta inglesa Interrupted Memory (Memoria Interrumpida), del director inglés Michael Chanan, quien asume las responsabilidades de la edición y la fotografía, para conseguir un relato colectivo a partir de historias individuales de personas de Chile y Argentina. Chanan escoge personajes de diferentes edades, y los sitúan frente a la cámara para que recuerden pasajes de sus vidas, relacionados con momentos trascendentales de la política y el gobierno en ambas naciones. De esta forma, construye una época en la vida latinoamericana signada por hechos tan trascendentales como el golpe de estado de 1973, en Chile, los cuales, a decir de los especialistas entrevistados en el material, marcarán un punto de giro en la vida de muchas generaciones.
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Y sobre el seminario, ¿Nuevo? ¿Cine? ¿Latinoamericano?…
Tecnología de vanguardia, el reto del nuevo cine
…El celuloide -tal como se lo conoce-, según Michael Chanan, va camino a la extinción y la digitalización favorece múltiples formas de comunicación. Él narró cómo se crea una nueva mirada documental, a través de cámaras digitales, teléfonos móviles, tabletas, entre otros aparatos electrónicos…
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Nuevo cine latinoamericano en la mira de festival habanero
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Havana premiere for ‘Memoria interrumpida’
Interrupted Memory / Memoria interrumpida
will receive its world premiere at the
Havana International Film Festival, 5-15 December 2013
A documentary about memory and politics in Argentina and Chile. The remembered experiences of popular militancy and resistance, military coups and state repression, shape a collective narration of recent history in the two countries, set off against the public memory of the film archives, and the film concludes with reflections on the politics of memory after the dictatorships.
Screening at Chile on Film
Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required).
http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film
Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer film, Interrupted Memory, on memory and politics in Argentina and Chile, coming soon.
9 Notes About Digital Cinema
A new online journal from Colombia, Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ‘9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. (In Spanish and English, with subtitles.)
[vimeo 48867239]
It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, ‘Three Short Films about Chile’.
http://cine.revistacoronica.com/2012/09/tres-cortos-sobre-chile-por-michael.html
which Javier Toloza writes about here (in Spanish):
‘Protest Chile’ screening 22 September
Screening of ‘Protest Chile’ (last part of 3 About Chile) at DocHouse RESISTENCIA: FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA on Saturday 22nd September | Rich Mix Cinema, E1, at 2.30
(Day begins at 12.30 – details http://bit.ly/NpyRO8)
DocHouse presents…
‘RESISTENCIA: Focus on Latin America’
A journey across Latin America today, through revealing documentaries and illuminating discussion.
DAY PASS – £22 / £18 student or concs
SINGLE TICKETS – £7 / £5 student or concs
A panoramic view across Latin America today, from life at the Mexican border, through the Peruvian jungle, and all the way to the streets of Rio.
These outstanding documentaries show the Latin America you don’t see on TV.
No horror stories of drug cartels and gangsters, these award-winning docs and discussions are about the indigenous people of Latin America – from Peru to Brazil to Cuba – those suffering from, and those resisting, the international, corporate exploitation of their land and resources.
Saturday 22nd September
12.30pm ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS – UK PREMIERE – (David Pablos, Mexico, 2010)
Contemplating life on either side of the 2,000 mile wall that separates Mexico from the USA.
+ THE INVISIBLES (Marc Silver & Gael García Bernal, UK/ Mexico, 2010)
Meet migrants on the dangerous journey to the border.
2.30pm LAW OF THE JUNGLE – LONDON PREMIERE – (Michael Christoffersen, Hans la Cour, Denmark, 2012)
A young indigenous leader and his lawyer fight the government and PlusPetrol for his rights and his freedom.
+ PROTEST CHILE (Michael Chanan, UK / Chile, 2011)
Capturing Chile’s mass student demonstrations.
3.10pm CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS (Sebastián Moreno, Chile, 2006)
The story of the fearless Chilean photographers who risked death to record life under Pinochet’s brutal military regime.
+ WITH FIDEL WHATEVER HAPPENS (Goran Radovanovic, Serbia, 2011)
The 52nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, in the sedate village of Sierra Mastra.
8pm STOLEN LAND – UK PREMIERE – (Margarita Martínez & Miguel Salazar, Colombia, 2010)
The Nasa people of southern Colombia are fighting to reclaim their ancestral land.
Join us for ‘drinks between the docs’ for a taste of Latin America too. Complimentary Chilean wine provided by TRIO and exotic fruit juices provided by Fruto del Espíritu.
3 About Chile Screening
Friday 29 June 2012, 7.30pm
St John, Bethnal Green
Screening of ‘Three Short Films About Chile’
with speakers
Details: New Voices Festival