Join us at the March screening for Mills Folly Microcinema, the monthly showcase of experimental film and video presented by Arts + Literature Laboratory.
Mills Folly Microcinema will present La Bouche: Recent Films by Camilo Restrepo, on Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. Admission $5, or free for Arts + Literature Laboratory members. Seating is limited, and doors open at 7:15 p.m.
Born in Medellin, Columbia, Camilo Restrepo has lived and worked in Paris, France since 1999. He is a member of L’Abominable, an artist-run film laboratory. His films have been selected for festivals including Wavelengths at Toronto International Film Festival, Projections at New York Film Festival, and Locarno Festival.
La Bouche | Camillo Restrepo | France | 2017 | 19:00
A man learns his daughter has been brutally murdered by her husband. Time stands still as he oscillates between the need for solace and his urge for revenge. La Bouche is an experimental musical featuring Guinean percussion master Mohamed Bangoura (“Red Devil”), loosely based on his own story. Directors Fortnight, 2017 Cannes Film Festival; Janela International do Cinema do Recife 2017, Critics Prize for Best International Short Film; 25FPS Zagreb 2017, Special Mention.
“La Bouche is a materialization of how the screams of the resistance transformed in their cadence, but it could also refer to the allegoric figure of a consolation weapon (the mouth) in times of colonization and slavery. And Restrepo shows a contained sensibility through dances, faces and rhythms. The mouths are shut but the hands are open and express themselves. The mouths also sing, laugh, celebrate, as an option for insurrection.” --Mónica Delgado. Desistfilm.
Cilaos | Camilo Restrepo | France | 2016 | 13:00
To keep a promise made to her dying mother, a young woman goes off in search of her father, a womanizer she has never met. Along the way, she soon learns that he is dead. But that doesn’t change her plans, she still intends to find him. Carried by the spell-binding rhythm of the Maloya, a ritual chant from Réunion Island, Cilaos explores the deep and murky ties that bind the dead and the living. Janela Internacional de Cinema 2016, Best Short Film of the International Competition; Media City Film Festival 2017, Honourable Mention.
"A true cinematic UFO, Cilaos comes on like a bastard combination of Pedro Costa and Owen Land. Centered around a joyous, charismatic performance by musician Christine Salem, Cilaos often feels like a raucous game of the Dozens, with Salem starting out singing about her desire to find her father, known as The Mouth." --Michael Sicinski, Mubi Notebook
La impresión de una guerra | Camilo Restrepo | Columbia, France | 2015 | 26:00
For over 70 years, Colombia has been confronted with internal armed conflict. Over the years, the outlines of the conflict have grown indistinct. A climate of generalized violence has gradually settled over society as a whole. Violence and barbarity have worked themselves into every aspect of daily life, and fine traces of it mark the streets. Through a multitude of these traces, perhaps the narrative of this hazy war will finally take a firmer shape. La impresión de una guerra (Impression of a War) offers a vision of some of those deliberate, accidental, ostensible, fleeting or dissimulated marks. They are often signs of the struggle against oblivion, indifference and impunity. Dokufest 2016, Best Short Documentary; Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image animée 2016, Prix Qualité.
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ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA
Mills Folly Microcinema is programmed by James Kreul from Madison Film Forum. Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art work from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at at Project Projection events.
Mills Folly Microcinema is funded in part by a grant from the Madison Arts Commission, with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
