Museo Reina Sofía, Doclisboa and FIDMarseille have announced the winners of Joaquim Jordà grants for a residency program (2022-2023). The objective of the program, which bears tribute to the Spanish filmmaker Joaquim Jordà (1935-2006), is oriented to filmmakers and artists in the field of cinema-essay, experimental film and all the other expressions of non-fiction film and aims to encourage the development of film projects in the realm of non-fiction film.
The Joaquim Jordà grantees are:
Leandro Listorti (Argentina, 1976)
For a project that aims to trace counter-history of cinema through an intuitive and sensitive relationship with nature, landscape, and territory. Listorti investigates the past of cinema using the very same material memory of this media, from archival footage to outdated formats, and underneath of his research lays the question on how cinema contemplated nature and land in a relationship beyond the language of domination and control of modernity. By doing so, an array of brilliant and touching futures for cinema appear in Listorti’s project.
Elise Florenty (France, 1978) and Marcel Turköwsky (Germany, 1978)
Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky have explored in several shorts and mid-length films the socio-political and historical contexts through the prism of altered states of consciousness (lucid madness, hallucinations, dreams), often exposing the multiplicity of the self through a spiral of metamorphoses that interrogate our relationship with the Other. Their project combines anthropological research, poetry and geopolitical criticism and investigates the origins of Fouquieria columnaris, a tree from the Sonoran Desert with evil symbolic meanings shared alike by literature (Lewis Carroll) and indigenous myths (the Comcáac community). The tree stands for the end and a new beginning of life.
