LIBERTAD GILLS
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  • about
  • image & sound
  • film criticism, interviews & festival reports
  • books, chapters, academic articles and conferences
  • film spotlight:
    • 1922
    • cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto
    • e unum pluribus
    • retrato lento / slow portrait
    • comuna engabao
  • intro
  • about
  • image & sound
  • film criticism, interviews & festival reports
  • books, chapters, academic articles and conferences
  • film spotlight:
    • 1922
    • cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto
    • e unum pluribus
    • retrato lento / slow portrait
    • comuna engabao

I have curated film programs in India, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland and Germany.  

EMAMI Art Experimental Film Festival​ - September 2025
¿Dónde están? Where Are They?

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¿Dónde están? Where are they? Where are the missing? And where are the missing images? With these questions in mind, I’ve prepared a program of short films from Latin America that are all, in one way or another, looking for someone or something. Missing women in Mexico, desaparecidos in Argentina, Kawéskar natives kidnapped from their home in Tierra del Fuego, an arrested child whose family has been murdered in Paraguay, the missing in Peru’s period of violence, and the missing images in Ecuador’s massacre of protesting workers in 1922. Missing people, missing images. A missing cinema, now found: a cinema made of fragments, of traces, of archival pieces, of what remains, of the ruins, of what has not been able to be completely erased. Because something always remains, no matter how small, no matter how difficult to find or to see or to hear. As these films remind us, it’s a matter of making visible the invisible, which is to say that it’s a matter of seeing but also of listening (“listening to images” in the words of scholar Tina Campt). It requires a certain practice, a certain opening, a certain desire to know, a certain desire to connect the present with the past. To learn how to see the ghosts, to feel their presence, their longing, the life that they could have lived, the lives that were cut too short, the images that have found their way to us, despite a systemic history of violence and erasure. Conceived as a constellation of films in dialogue with my own archival film titled 1922, these films open unhealed wounds of the past through experimental practices of reproduction and reappropriation to remind us of the fragility of human life and of cinema and that the future and survival of both are more than intertwined. 
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Festival de Cine Radical - 19 al 28 de septiembre de 2019
Programadora de la sección "Ecuador Radical" de Festival de Cine Radical de La Paz, Bolivia. 
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​Apropiación del cine casero en América Latina - 29 de octubre de 2018 (Con Martin Baus)
En el marco del Primer Encuentro de Cine Casero de Guayaquil organizamos un programa de cine casero latinoamericano. 
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​MUTA II Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual
- 15 al 24 de noviembre de 2018
Encargada del Programa Ecuador del II Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual en Lima. 
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El cine sobre arte de Fernando Mieles - Universidad de las Artes - 15 y 16 de marzo de 2017
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  • intro
  • about
  • image & sound
  • film criticism, interviews & festival reports
  • books, chapters, academic articles and conferences
  • film spotlight:
    • 1922
    • cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto
    • e unum pluribus
    • retrato lento / slow portrait
    • comuna engabao