SAQMI goes to EXPERIMENTA 2024

December 4-8 in Bangalore, India

Experimenta is the international festival for experimental film and moving image art. For their 12th edition this year SAQMI will be present with a screening of the film SUSANA by Susana Blaustein Muñoz, 1980, shot in Argentina and USA on 16mm. The screening take place on the first day: December 4, se full program here.

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
Curated by Erika Balsom and Shai Heredia
One Way or Another brings together works of feminist nonfiction from diverse contexts that experiment with form to articulate aesthetic and political commitments. The programme takes its name from the English-language title of Sara Gómez’s docufiction De cierta maniera (1977), in homage to the Afro-Cuban filmmaker who passed away in 1974 at the age of only 31, leaving her first and only feature-length film to be posthumously released. At the same time, the phrase “one way or another” – with its invocation of perseverance and its embrace of plurality – provides a way of describing the attitude of the filmmakers included in the programme and the eclectic character of their work. These are films that were made against the odds, in contestation of dominant norms, and which conform to no single aesthetic style or political position. What unites them is the desire to use the moving image, one way or another, to articulate dissent and produce alternative representations of oneself and one’s world. The film SUSANA screened in the original program: No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image.

Help SAQMI support Susana Blaustein Muñoz during her hard time since she moved back to Argentina from Sweden. You can see the film SUSANA and all money goes directly to her and you can also listen to SAQMI Play and hear about her story.

Photo: From the film Susana by Susana Blaustein Munoz