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- A Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.
- Dora García intertwines politics, psychoanalysis and performance into Segunda Vez (Second Time Around). This staged documentary orbits the figure of Oscar Masotta-a pivotal theorist in the Argentinian avant-garde from the 1950s to the 1970s, whilst not being a biopic about him. Masotta's ideas on Lacanian psychoanalysis, politics and art (happenings and dematerialized art) changed the artistic landscape of that 1960s Buenos Aires preceding the dictatorship and with it the end of the avant-garde. The title, Segunda Vez, originates from a homonymous story written by a contemporary of Masotta's, Julio Cortázar, which recounts the climate of psychosis and uncertainty caused by the trauma of disappearances in Argentina. In Segunda Vez, García weaves together a sequence of seemingly disparate scenes that are bound by the act of repetition and observation: posters plastered along a wall advertise their own transmission-a phantom message in a bustling city; two audiences converge on a cliff top, divided in their knowledge of the scenario in which they are participating; a person, tied up in white cloth and ropes, is carried and left in a forest; the brief appearance of a helicopter causes some excitement and consternation; a group of poor and aging people is assembled on a podium, paid to endure violent light and sound for an hour, while an audience observes them; a library brings reading groups together who are aware they're being watched; after a mysterious official summons, strangers chat in a waiting room anticipating what may happen-one young man among them has been called to return for a second time around. Masotta's ideas on constructing happenings and audience have also given rise to four short films by Dora García: El helicóptero (1967) by Oscar Masotta, happening again and filmed in San Sebastian in 2015 Para inducir el espíritu de la imagen (1966) by Oscar Masotta, happening again and filmed in Buenos Aires in 2016 Segunda vez, adapted from Segunda vez (1977) by Julio Cortázar and filmed in Buenos Aires in 2016 La Eterna, after Museo de la Novela de la Eterna (1967) by Macedonio Fernández and filmed at Universiteitsbibliotheek KU Leuven in 2016
- Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant confronts the past.
- Following the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana, Blue Meridian is a captivating journey through the dilapidated and worn out Deep South of the United States of America. A cinematographic encounter with people living among the traces of natural disasters, economic decline and a turbulent history. The Mississippi River flows both through the Deep South and the imagination of the American nation; it draws the border between the East and the West of the country, but also the division between the North and the South. As a blue meridian, it represents the complex relation between place and identity in North America. The film portrays people living in the decay of semi abandoned places, who try to rebuild, preserve and survive, in an attempt to take a stand in their land and its history. Flooding, civil rights movement riots, racism, real estate speculation have caused people to leave these towns and cities. Blue Meridian tells the story of their endeavors to make the American promises true. A critical but emphatic look on America.
- This happening by Oscar Masotta, took place for the first time in the Institute Di Tella fifty years ago. It was one of the politically more controversial actions of the sixties, confronting the audience of the Di Tella with a group of actors, pretending to be Lumpenproletariat, standing on a podium, subjected to intense light and a penetrating sound. Dora García has repeated the same happening in 2016, and filmed it.
- In times of great turmoil, time comes to a standstill.
- A group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years.
- Excerpts of texts by psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1998) on concentration, the body, repetition, daydreaming and open-ended time as conditions for creation are read and reflected upon by different artists. These voices and the silences between them, images of a seascape in Norway and of the artists' workspaces, as well as sounds from the Norwegian coast create parallel spaces, each following their own rhythm. The resulting experience of time resonates with Milner's idea of leisure: not a moment opposed to work, but a time allowing us to perceive and think freely without an immediate objective.