Avalancha

Name: Avalancha
Start: 2024-06-01UTC18:45
Location: CINETECA - Plató

Landslide

Daniel Cortés

Colombia

2023

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Synopsis

Using archive footage of funeral processions and protest marches from various time in the history of Colombia, Avalancha takes us on a sensorial and cyclical journey through the recurring and historic violence running across time like an inevitable geological accident that drags us down and drowns us. With an exceptional sound design and minimal yet devastating motion, this dialogue-free experimental film by Daniel Cortés shows collective grief as an expression and weapon of resistance. (RS)

Festivals

2023 - IDFA - Competencia oficial de cortometrajes
2023 - MIDBO - Muestra Internacional documental de Bogotá - Selección Oficial

Director biography

Daniel Cortés

Daniel Cortés is a university professor, director and producer of the short films Elan (2014, MIDBO), Memorias (2016, FICCALI) and 84 (2020, Jury Grand Prix Curta Cinema de Rio, Jihlava, Montreal International Documentary Film Festival RIDM). He is associate producer of the feature documentary Las razones del lobo (2020, Biarritz, Havana). Founder of Archivo Shub, an audiovisual archive focused on creation, training and experimentation with pre-existing images. His work focuses on non-fiction experimentation with audiovisual archives to question and subvert official memories, a cinema that moves through the non-narrative, appealing to the ideas of uncertainty and animism as paths for historical and political reflection.

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