LIBERTAD GILLS
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    • cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto
    • woody strode / river crossing
    • walking or weeping
    • e unum pluribus
    • retrato lento / slow portrait
  • intro
  • about
  • image & sound
  • film criticism
  • academia
  • pedagogy
  • screenings
  • spotlight on films:
    • cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto
    • woody strode / river crossing
    • walking or weeping
    • e unum pluribus
    • retrato lento / slow portrait

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Una diversión curiosa | A Curious Game
​(Colombia, 4', 2014)
 A boy plays a curious game on a busy, popular street in Bogotá. 
Made in a workshop with Abbas Kiarostami in Colombia in March 2014.
 
Prix du Public en el Panorama de Cine Colombiano (El Perro Que Ladra, Paris 2014).
​More info. 

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Comuna Engabao 
(Ecuador, 52', 2014)
 
Can a commune survive in the 21st Century? Engabao, a fishing commune in Ecuador, has historically been a site of land struggle between inhabitants and wealthy businessmen that threaten to convert collective lands into private property. Three founding members of the commune share their life stories, from which we discover that the struggle to survive, both individually and collectively, is one and the same. 
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 More info | Website

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Cine Foro: Comuna Engabao 
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(Ecuador, 36',  video installation, 2013)

People who participated in Comuna Engabao watch the first cut of the film and offer their perspective.
A reflexive piece on community, memory and representation. Anthropological and experimental.

Premio Mariano Aguilera 2012. Exhibited at the Center of Contemporary Art of Quito. 
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Las Tejedoras de Sigsig | The Hatweavers of Sigsig
(Ecuador, 27', 2011)
A documentary portrait of a women's hatweaving cooperative in Ecuador. ​Festivals: La Imagen de los Pueblos (Ecuador, 2013); X Congreso Argentina de Antropología Social (Buenos Aires, 2011)

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Espera | Wait
(Ecuador, 8', 2011)
An Argentine living in Ecuador connects the past with the present.
Retratos en movimiento (Ecuador, 2013); Days of Ethnographic Cinema (Russia, 2011);
Kitometraje Short Film Festival (Ecuador, 2011)

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La Historia de la Comuna de Engabao, Parte I
(Ecuador, 4', 2011)
Children from Engabao, a commune on the Ecuadorian coast, use illustration to re-tell the economic history of their community. Narrated by
Santiago Rodríguez, a founding member of Engabao.
Created during the artistic residency program Franja Arte Comunidad 2011.

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Realms of Fiction
(France, 14', 2010)
A character in a movie discovers her will to live... beyond the screen.
Cannes Film Festival: Short Film Corner 2010

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Monsieur Moosh & Mademoiselle Poopay!
(France, 6', 2010)
A doll and a fly. A love story with a killer ending.
Festival Internacional de Videodanza (Ecuador, 2011)

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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Behind-the-scenes Featurette & Foxy Music
(UK, 2009)
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Un Apres-Midi a L'Orangerie
(France, 2009)
Tourné dans le musée parisien, le filme nous fait découvrir les rapports des visiteurs avec les oeuvres et l'espace du musée.

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The Woman Behind the Book
(USA, 5', 16mm, 2006)
The ennui of attraction.
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  • intro
  • about
  • image & sound
  • film criticism
  • academia
  • pedagogy
  • screenings
  • spotlight on films:
    • cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto
    • woody strode / river crossing
    • walking or weeping
    • e unum pluribus
    • retrato lento / slow portrait