5:30 pm Gallery Opening and Mixer

“The Engram Series” Ivana Larrosa

6:30 pm PERFORMANCES

“KAT” Modiano, Flutist and Composer

8:00 pm SCREENINGS

• Machine for Life

• Beach Birds: The Shaman, The Guardian, The Journey

• Sensorium

• Corahe

• The Sad Flower

• Memory of the Forgotten

9:00 pm Q & A

Memory of the Forgotten (SCR/DIR Marta Arjona. SPAIN, 2024, 10 min. Drama). This dance short film pays tribute to the women who died in the Oblates prison-convent in Tarragona due to harsh prison conditions, and to the only woman shot in the city during Franco's repression. It aims to keep alive and document the memory of all these women through the testimony of their lives and the stand they took in prison before being buried in a common grave in Tarragona's cemetery. This production, based on true facts, is an adaptation of the book by the same title by Tecla Martorell, a native of Tarragona, and a production under the same title by Tarragona-based dance company "La Im.Perfecta". Audiovisual producer DansPXL weaves together history, literature, dance and audiovisuals to give voice to our recent past. (In Spanish with English subtitles.)

Trailer

TICKETS: Tues. June 24 @ 8:00 pm

La Nacional - 239 W 14th St. (MANHATTAN)

Corahe (SCR Lucía Román Canivell, Lucía Iglesias, Manuel Buendía/DIR Lucía Román Canivell. SPAIN, 2024, Drama). When the flamenco tradition and the possibility of a stable future stand in the way of a flamenco dancer and singer, their love and future become complicated. Lola and Julia work together in a tablao (the place where flamenco is performed). However, their relationship and love for flamenco are challenged by the difficult working conditions and the struggle of the flamenco tradition to survive in modern times. (New York City premiere. In Spanish with English subtitles.)

TICKETS: Tues. June 24 @ 8:00 pm

La Nacional - 239 W 14th St. (MANHATTAN)

Beach Birds: The Shaman, The Guardian, The Journey (SCR/DIR Ivana Larrosa, US/SPAIN 2024, 15:00. Silent film) After a car accident leaves a woman with permanent double vision, she embarks on a journey to reconsider the way she sees the world. Inspired by Merce Cunningham's piece Beach Birds, Larrosa created this dance film to invite her own healing from trauma. Guided by a Shaman and a Guardian, this deeply personal exploration offers insight into the human body and psyche, echoing the natural world where there’s no division between humans and nature. A contemplative composition that weaves ritual with trance.

Trailer

TICKETS: Tues. June 24 @ 8:00 pm

La Nacional - 239 W 14th St. (MANHATTAN)

The Sad Flower (SCR/DIR Ruth Somalo, US 2020, 5’.) A poem written during Franco’s dictaorship by lawyer, poet and politician Emilio Gastón, comes alive during the protests after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police. As in a dystopian fever dream, domesticity, space race, news, the streets of the Lower East Side during the Covid pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, an artists collage in progress and a cup of tea collide with the political and social unrest in the US resurrecting the rebellious and hopeful words of a poem 48 years after it was written. (New York City premiere. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Machine for Life (SCR/DIR Ruth Somalo, US 2012, 4’32”.) nspired by a series of conversations about architecture and the poetics of space between filmmaker Ruth Somalo and designer Suchi Reddy, this short film examines spaces of discovery and intimacy.Set in an unspecified futuristic era and location, sprinkled with sixties touches, and drawing from Le Corbusier’s concepts of “the mechanized”; our heroine space traveller arrives at an unknown place (designer Suchi Reddy’s apartment). After exploring its characteristics and taking full advantage of the opportunities that the well-designed elements allow, the space sets the scene for a tantalizing love story.

Sensorium (SCR/DIR Ruth Somalo, US 2014, 2’. Experimental documentary) Guided by the words of Buckminster Fuller and hypnotized by the kitsch futurism of the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel light show, we are led to an amniotic fluid of sensual interaction between celluloid and video where lived experience, performed experience and remembered experience emerge as one. The piece was mostly shot at MOMA PS1 during the first Iteration of The Colony of Light art residency. The museum acts as a prison to be escaped as the experience of cinema provides a scape from individualism allowing the rebirth of the utopian collective. In collaboration with "The Colony of Light" members.

9:15 pm POST-PRANDIAL

Marta Arjona, Maite Blasco, Raquel Rodríguez (In Remembrance of the Forgotten)

Maite Blasco Pérez is a professional photographer specializing in pregnancy, newborn, and family portraits at Blasco Visual Studio, and collaborates with DansPXL. She co-directed the award-winning dance film Memòria de les Oblidades. Marta Arjona Blasco has been immersed in dance and visual storytelling from a very young age. After graduating in Audiovisual Communication and Journalism, she founded DansPXL in 2015, a production company specializing in dance and performing arts. Her short dance films focus on memory and women's stories, and have been awarded and selected in festivals worldwide, including the Elche International Independent Film Festival (Spain) and Rollout Dance Film Festival (China).

Ivanna LaRosa (Beach Birds: The Shaman, The Guardian, The Journey)

Ivana Larrosa is a visual artist from Spain living in New York City. Through photography, video and performances she investigates the impact of her permanent double vision and her experience of space, consequence of a car accident. Larrosa is interested in conceptual strategies that have to do with the body as an object of study and a medium to approach memory, trauma, perception and architecture.

Her work has been shown at at Art venues and Museums including Anthology Film Archives, International Center of Photography, The Exponential, Queens Museum, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Project Space Kleiner Salon, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, and Galeria Sicart, among others. Larrosa's work is at the permanent collection of Foundations, Museums, Institutions and Collections such as Bassat Private Collection, Spanish National Museum of Sculpture and video art platform Lucid / PerformVu in New York.

Ivana Larrosa has received several grants such as City Artist Corps Grant of New York, Lluís Carulla Foundation Individual Artist Grant, and Museum of Tortosa Artist in Residency, and numerous awards, including Ramon Aloy International Photographic Award and Camera Club of New York Baxter St, Annual Juried Competition.

Ivana holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from University of Navarra (Spain) and a Master of Fine Arts at Bard College-International Center of Photography (New York, 2016), where she was awarded with the ICP Director’s Scholarship and taught video installation and performance.

Lucía Román Canivell (Corahe)

Leaving Seville at 17, I struggled with nostalgia and my relationship with tradition. Initially resistant to the city's heteronormative views, I later discovered the various layers of Andalusian and flamenco traditions. In 'Corahe,' I wanted to depict the challenges of youth in Spain and the rich diversity of flamenco, collaborating with a female and queer team to redefine traditional narratives.

Ruth Somalo (Sensorium, Machine for LIfe, The Sad Flower)

Spanish curator, filmmaker and researcher based in New York. She is currently a Senior Programmer at DOC NYC, DocumentaMadrid and The Architecture and Design Film Festival. As an independent curator she is interested in cinematic rituals and emotional experience in subjective cinema, the poetics of fragility, and reclaiming a non judgmental non anthropocentric space for emotions. As a filmmaker her work has been shown in theaters, festivals and museums internationally and her latest films are constructed around taboos of the female body, gender specific illnesses and patriarchal structures in the medical establishment, ritual, mortality, human remains and experiences of loss.

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