Special session of the series ‘Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue’.
In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London).
25 April, 5.30 pm: Los Rubios [The Blonds] (2003), by Albertina Carri (89’), followed by an open discussion with the audience. Spanish (with English subtitles)
Free Entrance. All Welcome.
Invited speakers: Dr. Philippa Page (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (IGRS, University of London).
On April 25, the Institute for the Study of the Americas (School of Advanced Study, University of London), will feature Los Rubios [The Blonds] (2003), a provocative post-memorial documentary directed by Albertina Carri, the daughter of a leftist intellectual couple that was kidnapped and murder during Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976-1983).
Ten years ago, Albertina Carri featured the abduction of her parents through a crafted animation scene performed by plastic toys suddenly whisked away by a spaceship. Against those who first qualified the film as “frivolous” and “selfish”, Los Rubios remains as a pioneer piece that changed the rules of representation of the traumatic past in the country. More than that, Los Rubios has given room to a large series of productions developed by the Children of the Disappeared and a new wave of second-generation artists. What has changed in memory discussion in the last decade? Which are the new languages to relate to loss?
The invited speakers will be Dr. Philippa Page (University of Leuven, Brussels) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (IGRS, University of London).
Philippa Page currently holds a Postdoctoral Fellow position in Hispanic Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. She is also the author of the book Politics and Performance in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Film and Theatre (Tamesis, 2011).
Jordana Blejmar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the IGRS. She is member of the steering committee of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory and is currently preparing a special issue on Latin American Cultural Postmemories for the Journal of Romance Studies.
Coordination: Dr. Cecilia Sosa.
25 April, 5.30pm, Senate House, Room G37 (Ground Floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
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