Lo que la tierra recuerda
Trailer
Rotterdam Award
“José Cardoso’s dynamic, beautifully glitching experimental documentary brings us intimately into a community uprooted by South Africa’s white supremacist institutions. Using fragmentation, layering, jump-cuts and an almost gleeful rebellion against convention, the film’s stylings reflect the ruptures of dislocation and the electric tenacity of resistance. Cardoso’s editing upends our expectations of expository film, and despite all odds leaves us raucous, rooting for and charmed by a grass-roots movement to reclaim what they can of a stolen history.”
the IFFRotterdam jury on «What the Soil Remembers»
«El dinámico documental bellamente experimental de José Cardoso nos adentra en una comunidad desarraigada por las instituciones supremacistas blancas de Sudáfrica. Utilizando la fragmentación, las capas, los saltos y una rebelión casi alegre contra las convenciones, el estilo de la película refleja las rupturas de la dislocación y la tenacidad eléctrica de la resistencia. El montaje de Cardoso pone patas arriba nuestras expectativas de una película expositiva y, a pesar de todo, nos hace delirar, animar y encantarnos con un movimiento popular que reclama lo que puede de una historia robada».
– el jurado del IFFRotterdam sobre «Lo que la tierra recuerda»
Presskit (Jan-23)
Synopsis
«What the Soil Remembers» examines the trauma of a community uprooted during the Apartheid regime, making way for an educational institution that would become synonymous with the foundation of white supremacist ideologies. The film follows a group of elders who illuminate the screen with their approach to the problem. The collective wisdom and patience embedded in their actions is what a nationalist regime tried to violently take away from them years earlier.
Sinopsis
«Lo que la tierra recuerda», un cortometraje documental que examina el trauma de una comunidad desarraigada durante el régimen del Apartheid, dejando paso a una institución educativa que se convertiría en sinónimo de los cimientos de las ideologías de la supremacía blanca. La película sigue a un grupo de ancianos que iluminan la pantalla con su enfoque del problema. La sabiduría colectiva, la espiritualidad y la paciencia incrustadas en sus acciones es lo que un régimen nacionalista intentó arrebatarles violentamente años antes.
Tags
South Africa, Uprooted, Community, Apartheid, Redresing, Colonialism, Spirituality, University, Land Reclamation, Reconciliation, Race, Racial Classifications, History, Power of Collectivity, Activism, Marginalized by Society, Historical Privilege, Justice.
40th Kurzfilm Hamburg, 2024, Germany
Cine a Sol y Sombra, Cineclub, Sao Paolo, 2024, Brasil
Khalil Sakakini Cultural, Ramallah, 2024, Palestine
28e Festival REGARD, 20 au 24 mars, 2024, Canada
40th Chicago Latino Films Festival, Chicago, 2024, USA
Bijlmer Park Theatre, Amsterdam, 2024, Netherlands
Johannesburg International Film Festival, 2024, South Africa
Eflux special screening, 2024, Brooklyn New York, USA
17th Vilnius Short Film Festival, 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania
XVI Bienal de Cuenca, Muestra invitada: La Fractura del Siglo, Cuenca, 2023, Ecuador
SiberiaDOC, December 2023, Siberia, Russia, Winner of Film Critics Award
IFFC, Varanasi, 2023 , India
Festival Manabí Profundo, Manta, 2023, Ecuador
ADIFF 24 2023 NY USA.
30th NSFF Ningbo Film Festival, China, Winner of Best Short Documentary
Woordfees, Stellenbosch, South Africa
22 EDOC, Encuentros del Otro Cine, Ecuador
Fame Week Africa, Cape Town, 2023, South Africa
The Regina International Film Festival and Awards, Canada, Winner of Best International Documentary Short Form
BlackStar Film Festival 2023, USA
44th Durban International Film Festival, in competition, South Africa
Drim Short Film Festival, North Macedonia
Afrika Filmfestival, in competition, Leuven, Belgium
Encounters Documentary Film Festival, South Africa
Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival, in competition, Greece
46th Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway
Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, UK
69avo International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, in competition, Germany
The Black Archives, Special Presentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
IFFR Rotterdam 2023, Netherlands, Winner of Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award
IDFA Doc for Sale 2022, , Netherlands
WIP Cinema Development – Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, France
WIP DocShop Filmmakers Legal Clinic. Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, USA
CREDITS / CREDITOS
Director: José Cardoso Producer: Adrian Van Wyk, María Fernanda García Cinematographer: María Fernanda García Field producers: Mogamed Ras and Yusuf October Protagonists: Mogamed Ras, Yusuf October, Joseph Pollman, Maria Dureiah, Wim de Villiers, Frank Piers, Muhtar Lamberdt, Johnny Adams Editor: José Cardoso Color: Cuartoblanco VFX: Sebastián Sanchez Associated producers: Charles Palm, Kurt Orderson, Juan Castro de Jong Sound Design: Santiago Landivar Music: Jethro Louw and Garlic Brown Production House: Jiráfica and Azania Rizing
Social Networks / Redes Sociales
https://www.facebook.com/whatthesoilremembers
https://www.instagram.com/thesoilremembers/
Interview / Entrevista
LOS EXPERIMENTOS:
http://www.losexperimentoscine.blog/2023/03/una-conversacion-con-jose-cardoso.html
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