Trailer
A seemingly ordinary action is recorded in a single take: a mass of potatoes cascades down the steps of the Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Some cinephiles will see the image as a nod to the Lumière Brothers’ Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), or the famed Odessa Steps sequence in Soviet filmmaker Sergei M. Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925). Executed and filmed by Gabriela Golder, this performance is loosely inspired by Analogía I (1970 – 1971), a seminal work by Víctor Grippo (1936 – 2002), who is considered the father of Argentinian conceptual art. Golder offers a re-reading, while evoking the social power of the masses that leads to movements and street occupations.
This film is part of the FIFA EXPERIMENTAL section program BACK AND FORTH.
This film is part of the FIFA EXPERIMENTAL section program BACK AND FORTH.
Director | Gabriela Golder |
Director of Photography | Nahuel Salgueiro |
Music | Santiago Pedroncini |
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Gabriela Golder
Gabriela Golder (Buenos Aires, 1971) is an artist, curator, and professor. She is the director of the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM) in Argentina. She received several awards for her work, among others, the “Sigwart Blum prize » of the Argentinean Arts Critics Association, Argentina; Media Art Award from the ZKM, Germany; the first prize at Videobrasil, Brazil; the Videoformes award, France and the Tokyo Video Award.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Selected films:
Afuera (2016)
About the Worker’s Condition Before Machinery (2015)
Tierra Quemada (2014)
Nocturna (2014)
Gente Comun (2013)
Afuera (2016)
About the Worker’s Condition Before Machinery (2015)
Tierra Quemada (2014)
Nocturna (2014)
Gente Comun (2013)