SYNOPSIS

Through a habitual excursion of a father, his son and his two friends to Mar Chiquita Lake, Little Devils Go to Heaven explores the conflict of protecting a wild landscape in the face of the rights of native people to access and enjoy their original lands.
This piece focuses on a wild landscape that served as a last refuge for the native people of central Argentina, the Mar Chiquita Lake. This lake, one of the largest and wildest masses of waters in South America, is presently almost inaccessible since, in most areas, the coastal lands belong to private owners. Impaired access added to the prohibition of making bonfires and hunting further removes this landscape from its original inhabitants.
Firewood–perhaps one of the few goods that native people can legally profit from–and fire are definitely the symbol of a culture that has not disappeared. The ideologue of Argentine’s Constitution stated, as he was drafting it, “To govern is to populate… to populate it with people from Europe.” This tension between native or mestizos and the white population in Argentina is very strong up to today, but it still goes largely unacknowledged.

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CREDITS

Title: Little Devils Go to Heaven
Genre: Experimental Documentary
Runtime: 19′ 40″
Country: Argentina-France
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Year: 2008
Format: DVCAM
Cast: Pichi Ferreira, Gonzalo Ferreira, Gerardo Bravo, Mario Villaruel
Director: Imwinkelried
Photography: Imwinkelried
Editing: Imwinkelried/Gwennor Lloyd Jones
Music: “Si faltas tu” by Chebere (1988)

SYNOPSIS

An exploration of male fears and anxieties, and the hidden structures that hold the patriarchal edifice erect, based on the homonymous book by Luce Irigaray, Amante Marine surveys male rejection to enter into a true relationship with another subject who brandishes its own genuine alterity. Very comfortable with airy relations between themselves, men are most afraid of the depths and the ever-changing masses of the seas. In her book Amante Marine (Marine Lover), French philosopher Luce Irigaray summons man to put his fear aside and adventure into the sea to experience a true encounter with woman. “The other has yet to enlighten him. To tell him something. Even to appear to him in her irreducibility… Did he ever open himself to that other world? For him it doesn’t even exist. So who speaks of love, to the other, without having even begun to say “yes”?”

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CREDITS

Title: Amante Marine
Genre: Experimental
Runtime: 14′25″
Country: France
Language: French (no dialogues)
Year: 2007
Format: DV-CAM
Cast: Anais Maro, Vincent Daufin, David Lesne, Mazen Kiwan, Juanito Juarez
Director: Imwinkelried
Photography: Imwinkelried

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

• Urban Screens Melbourne 08
  2008, 3-8 October
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.urbanscreens08.net
• São Paulo International Short Film Festival
  2008, 17-29 August
  Sao Paulo, Brazil
  www.kinoforum.org.br
• Detroit’s 10th International Film & Video Festival
  At MONA, Museum of New Art, Detroit’s Contemporary Museum
  2007, 9-31 March
  Detroit, United States
• 11th Annual International Women’s Film Festival
  Organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women & Gender at the University at Buffalo
  2007, January 25-March 1
  Buffalo, United States

OTHER SCREENINGS

• Rice University, Houston, 2007-04, United States. Filmmaker invited to present.
• Blueroom, Rome, 2007-03, Italy

SYNOPSIS

Images of Jean Vigo’s Taris le roi de l’eau juxtaposed with those of a crystal ball juggler convey a playful image of men in contra position with the words on the screen.
This video is based on the concept of placental economy developed by Luce Irigaray. According to Irigaray, the placental economy is one of differentiation between two organisms. Thus, she challenges traditional conceptions of pregnancy that either claim that the pregnant woman and the fetus have a fusional relationship or perceive the fetus as a parasite. Irigaray’s concept of the placental economy also challenges Lacan’s conception since he claims that differentiation between mother and child only occurs with the enforcement of the name of the father.
Irigaray claims that it is precisely the placenta, a formation of the embryo, the organ that plays a mediating role between the two organisms, fostering a non-parasitical and non-fusional relationship. On the contrary, this, the primal model of a relationship, is based on exchange and communication. Thus, Irigaray envisions intersubjectivity in clear opposition to the Hegelian tradition, which involves hostility, alienation, dominance, and servitude for the self to be recognized by and differentiated from the other.

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CREDITS

Title: Placenta
Genre: Experimental
Runtime: 4′23″
Country: France
Language: English
Year: 2007
Format: MiniDV
Cast: Furet, Jean Daste (images from Taris le roi de l’eau by Jean Vigo)
Director: Imwinkelried
Photography: Imwinkelried
Music: QuiOui

SCREENINGS

• Media Facades
  2010, August-October
  Berlin, Brussels, Helsinki, Liverpool, Budapest, Linz, Madrid
  www.mediafacades.eu
• Streaming Festival
  2008, October 23-6
  The Hague, Netherlands
  www.streamingfestival.com
• Urban Screens Melbourne 08
  2008, 3-8 October
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.urbanscreens08.net
• LPM MEX 2008
  2008, September 4-6
  Xalapa-Veracruz, Mexico
  www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2008mex
• NewFest 2008: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, &
  Transgender Film Festival
  2008, June 5-15
  New York, USA
  www.newfest.org
• LPM Live Performers Meeting
  2008, May 29-June 1
  Rome, Italy
  www.flxer.net
• Het Entrepot
  2007, September
  Brugge, Belgium
  www.het-entrepot.be

SYNOPSIS

This documentary is distributed by Frameline and it has been selected for the Youth In Motion: Arts In Action program.

Filled with the unique colors and rhythms of Cuba, Krudas explores the lives and work of an interracial lesbian couple from Cuba who leads a hip hop duo called Krudas and a street performance group of actors, stilt walkers and jugglers, Tropazancos.
Krudas begun their hip hop group in 1999, and are currently the most popular female group from the Cuban alternative music scene. They address issues such as female liberation, lesbian rights, female solidarity, and racism. Most of their work is deeply impregnated with feminism and their African roots.
Krudas conceive language itself as the root of female exclusion. Their songs represent an effort to upset semantics and syntax. They summon men to dialog, refusing any sort of hierarchical relationship. Krudas emphasize on the use of the first person—we usually hear the repetition of the first person “yo” (I), sometimes followed by their own names to further personalize their discourse. Krudas’ first person extends beyond mere autobiographical narrative; their “I” is an attempt to formulate a double subjectivity, what philosopher Luce Irigaray calls “I-she” (“Je-elle”) and “I-he” (“Je-il”).
In addition to leading the hip hop duo and the street performance group Tropazancos, Krudas have also organized a network of female hip hop artists, Omega, to unite females in the hip hop and alternative music scene. Omega’s goal is to join forces in order to generate larger projects, including all-female collective performances, recordings, and workshops.
An article about Krudas and Cuban female rappers from Znet here

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CREDITS

Title: Krudas
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 29 minutes

Country: Cuba
Language: Spanish with English/French subtitles
Year: 2006
Format: MiniDV
Appearing: Odaymara Cuesta (Pasita), Olivia Prendes (Pelusa), Tropazancos stilt walkers and performers Yruzam Sanchez Graña, Sayly Sanchez, Yarima Perez, Yanet Estevez, Lety Bell, Alberto Sanchez, Leonel Rojas, Lazaro Bonachea, Yran Farias, Andres Aguilera.
Director: Imwinkelried
Producer: Yusimi Rodriguez
Photography: Imwinkelried
Sound: Melior Mouamma
Editors: Imwinkelried, Gwenn Lloyd Jones
Music: Krudas

AWARDS

Best Short Documentary (Jury’s Award)
Best Short Documentary (Public’s Award)
At Cineffable’s Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival, 27- 30 October 2006
www.cineffable.fr

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

• Bloomington Pride Film Festival
  2009, February
  Austin, USA

• Frameline Film Festival
  2009, June
  San Francisco, USA
  www.frameline.org/festival
• Bloomington, Indiana’s PRIDE Film Festival
  2009, January
  Bloomington, USA
  www.pridefilmfestival.org
• Antidoto
  2008, October
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  www.itaucultural.org.br
• Cine Cufa
  2008, September 9-21
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  www.cinecufa.com.br
• Michigan Womyn’s Film Festival
  2008, August 5-10
  Michigan State, USA
  www.michfest.com
• NewFest 2008: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, &
  Transgender Film Festival
  2008, June 5-15
  New York, USA
  www.newfest.org
• Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  2007, November 8-18
  www.reelingfilmfestival.org
  Chicago, USA
• FICCU: Festival Internacional de Cine Cubano (Filmmaker invited to present)
  2007, October 18-28
  Munich, Germany
• Festival du Film Engage (Filmmaker invited to present)
  2007, 16-17 May
  Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Lost & Found, Of Losses and Strategies of Cultural Self-Empowerment
  Held at Shedhalle
  2007, May 12-July 15

  http://shedhalle.ch/eng/presse/index.shtml

  Zurich, Switzerland

• Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival (Filmmaker invited to present)
  2007, 10-20 May
  www.ucansupurge.org
  Ankara, Turkey
• Pink Apple Schwullesbisches Film Festival (Filmmaker invited to present)
  2007, 2-9 May
  pinkapple.ch
  Zurich, Switzerland
• British Film Institute’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  2007, 21 March – 4 April
  www.llgff.org.uk
  London, UK
• 11th Annual International Women’s Film Festival
  Organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women & Gender at the University at Buffalo
  2007, March 1
  genderbuffalo.org
  Buffalo, United States
• Docusur, Festival Internacional de Documentales del Sur
  2006, 22-29 October

  http://docusur.es

  Tenrife, Spain

• Cineffable’s Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival (Filmmaker invited to present)
  27- 30 October 2006
  www.cineffable.fr
  Paris, France
• Irish Film Institute’s Dublin Lesbian & Gay Festival 2006
  www.irishfilm.ie
  2006, 3-7 August
  Dublin, Ireland
• Digital Barcelona Film Festival (DIBA)
  www.dibafestival.com
  2006, 23-27 May
  Barcelona, Spain
• Rhythm of the Line (ROTL)
  2006, 13-17 April
  www.rotl.de
  Berlin, Germany

SYNOPSIS

An exploration of the points of encounter between Marine Lover by French philosopher Luce Irigaray and L’Atalante by Jean Vigo, this piece portrays L’Atalante as a truly amorous discourse in Irigarayan terms, enabling lovers to move and grow in land and sea. L’Atalante’s bride is still “eternally the slave of the becoming of your [man’s] thought,” but her groom is willing to dive in water to find her.
I created this project as an installation in 2001, but later edited the video for projection in 2006.

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CREDITS

Title: Marine Lover
Genre: Experimental
Runtime: 10 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2006
Format: MiniDV
Cast: Tonya Williams
Director: Imwinkelried
Photography: Imwinkelried
Sound: Imwinkelried, Vince Mistretta, Tonya Williams

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

• EMAF, European Media Art Festival
  2006, May 10-14
  Osnabruck, Germany
• Hallwalls, Artists and Models (Shown as video installation in collaboration with Vince Mistretta and Hye Bhin Kim)
  2000, May

SYNOPSIS

Images of a slaughterhouse, intercut with Bunuel’s L’age d’or, run over love songs by Faure and an interview with the veterinarian in charge of the facility.
In the video, we see the process cows go through at a slaughterhouse, but the order of the process is inverted, starting by the slicing of a head and ending with cow still alive as she comes out of the concealed area where she was knocked out.

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CREDITS

Title: Esa carne sea bien presentada y de buena calidad
English title: Let that meat be nicely displayed and of good quality
Genre: Experimental Documentary
Runtime: 10 minutes
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Year: 1994
Format: S-VHS
Cast: N/A
Original idea: Imwinkelried
Director: Imwinkelried, Maria Eva Maldonado Rago, Veronica Murua, Carolina Perez Sandoval
Photography: Imwinkelried
Music: Le secret and Chanson d’amour by Gabriel Faure

SCREENINGS

• Body Art at Plataforma
  1994
  Cordoba, Argentina
• Viva Cordoba
  1994
  Cordoba, Argentina
• Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
  1994
  Cordoba, Argentina