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New Screening of the Series ‘Meeting the Directors:
Dialogues Between New Argentine Cinema & Theatre’.
10 December, 6 pm: Viola (2012), by Matías Piñeiro (65’).
Followed by videoconference with the director.
In Spanish (with English subtitles). Senate House. Free Entrance. All Welcome.
The Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research invites you to a new session of the series that looks at the dialogues between the ‘New Argentina Cinema’ and the less explored ‘New Argentine Theatre’. Innovative technologies, humour and live music and dance enhance this upcoming body of work challenging the purity of genres. For the first time, the series introduces selected experimental productions to the British audience while featuring live conversations with the most talented and celebrated young directors.
On 10 December we will feature Viola (2012), a bright and beautiful entanglement between the most novel and stylist Argentina’s cinema and the universal themes of Shakespeare in the streets of contemporary Buenos Aires.
Viola lives in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend. Helping him with his video piracy business, she comes into contact with the work of an all-girl theatre company. In his latest film, Piñeiro ingeniously fashions out of Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night a seductive roundelay among young actors and lovers in present-day Buenos Aires. Mixing melodrama with sentimental comedy, philosophical intrigue with heart dilemmas, Viola bears all the signature traits of Piñeiro’s work: serpentine camera movements and slippages of language, an elliptical narrative and a playful confusion of reality and artifice. A rhythmic, tense and graceful film not to be missed.
Matías Piñeiro (1982) is one of contemporary Argentine cinema’s most sensuous and sophisticated new voices. He studied at la Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. In 2006 he was one of eleven directors in the collective feature A propósito de Buenos Aires (Regarding Buenos Aires) and in 2007 he screened his first feature El hombre robado (The Stolen Man), winning the Best New Director Award in Las Palmas Film Festival and the Best Film in JeonJu International Film Festival. In 2009, he finished his second feature Todos mienten (They All Lie). In 2010 he released Rosalinda, an playful meditation on Shakespeare’s As you Like it. Viola is his latest film. Piñeiro lives in Nueva York.
Coordination and facilitation: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (University of East London/ Institute of Latin American Studies) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research).
10 December, 6 pm, Senate House, Senate Room (first floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU.
Room ST 280 (Stewart House)
Tel: 020 7862 8964
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