To Weave and Sing — An Evening of Experimental Film and Music
To Weave and Sing — An Evening of Experimental Film and Music
Films by Stacy Steers, Cláudia Cárdenas & Juce Filho, and Djuly Gava & Daniel Leão
solo performance by guitarist Lautaro Mantilla
tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 7pm
Civic Pavilion (Boston City Hall Plaza)
5 Congress Street, Boston
Free
Non-Event, in collaboration with the RPM Festival, proudly presents To Weave and Sing, an evening of experimental film and music, supported by the Boston Mayor's Office of Art and Culture. The program features three short films by Stacy Steers, Cláudia Cárdenas & Juce Filho, and Djuly Gava & Daniel Leão, followed by a solo performance by guitarist Lautaro Mantilla.
Film Screenings
Watunna — Stacey Steers
1989/24min/ 16mm to HD/ Color
The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. Narrated by Stan Brakhage. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.
Here where everything ends — Cláudia Cárdenas & Juce Filho
19mins, 2023, Brazil, color, sound, 16mm to HD
Here where everything ends is a poetic and experimental short-film that travels in between documentary and fiction to approach a culture faced with extinction: the indigenous peoples of Brazil. It is particularly about the sharing of knowledge of the Bugio village, and made in a collective way in every stage of 16mm footage, botanical revelation and sound caption. It tries to reactivate the memories of the origins of the Laklãnõ/Xokleng people, while observing what is lost with the alienation of their knowledge and culture practiced by colonialism.
Panorama — Djuly Gava & Daniel Leão
17mins, 2023, Brazil, Color, Sound, 4k
Panorama is a marginal film like Panorama, one of the largest housing projects in southern Brazil. Located on the side of a highway on the outskirts of Florianópolis, the Panorama Housing Project was built in 1989, the year of the first Brazilian presidential election after the end of the military dictatorship. Through the appropriation of archival footage of the residents, the film narrates the passage of time in community life. Directed and edited by residents of the complex, Panorama is both an ode to possible joys of everyday life and a subtle reflection about what leads us to photograph, the ways of permanence of the past and the migration of images from familiar contexts to the public and common territory of the cinematic space.
Solo performance
Lautaro Mantilla is a guitarist, composer, and improviser from Bogotá, Colombia. In his performances, he typically combines guitar, extended vocalization techniques, and homebuilt electronics to create music that is both viscerally affecting and conceptually rigorous. Based in Boston, Lautaro is active in the NY and Boston music scenes and is a faculty member of the Contemporary Musical Arts department at New England Conservatory. Lautaro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Classical guitar from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (Colombia), a Master’s in guitar and improvisation and a Doctorate in composition, both from New England Conservatory.
