Can Marguerite Duras cure us of madness? Can that woman who is mute in soul be crazy? This film, through analog casting, explores the representations of madness in silent films of the 20s and 30s.
Country
SpainYear
2024Length
15'58"
Category
DocumentaryPremiere
Italian
Screenplay
Tamara García IglesiasCinematography
Tamara García IglesiasEditing
Laura Moreno Bueno, Álvaro HerreroSound
Elvira Sanchez PoxonProduction
Katixa de Silva, Tamara García Iglesias, Pako RuizDistribution
Freak AgencySynopsis
Biography
Tamara García Iglesias (Lasarte, 1978) has worked as a director, producer and curator in Spain and Argentina for the last 10 years.
Statement
The detonator was Jean Rhys’ book, Wide Sargasso Sea, in which the writer gives context to the madwoman who appears in Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre. I thought about how the “madwomen” who appear throughout film history are women who are not asked, they are mute. And it led me to the film archive of the 1920s and 1930s, where women represented what the directors needed. Finding a casting from 1917 in Buenos Aires makes me want to write lines of dialogue, in an act of rewriting.
— Tamara García Iglesias
Archival materials
FPA Classics – Lobster Films, The Wellcome Collection, Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, Light Cone, Man Ray Trust Foundation/ADAGP/VEGAP, L. Gaumont & CIE, Thomas Sessler Verlag GmbH, Národní Filmový Archiv, La Cinémathèque Française, Eye Filmmuseum, Cineteca di Bologna, L’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, British Film Institute, Buena Vista Television, LLC, Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino.
Screenings
Fri 26.09.202514:30–16:00
How to Write, an AI Guide in Four Steps + In retrospect + 09/05/1982 + Locas del ático + Autorretrato a los 13
Italian premiere
Q&A with director
Screening
Sala Cervi
Via Riva di Reno 72/A
Ticket fee or accreditation
Sat 27.09.202517:30–19:30
How to write an AI guide + In retrospect + 09/05/1982 + Locas del ático + Autorretrato a los 13
Italian premiere
Q&A with director
Screening
Sala Cervi
Via Riva di Reno 72/A
Ticket fee
