Adrift: Alejandro Alonso Estrella

El Hijo del Sueño, by Alejandro Alonso Estrella

Adrift: Alejandro Alonso Estrella

Films Screening Online Sept 25-29, 2021

Live Q&A with Filmmaker and Programmers on Tuesday Sept 28, 7:00 pm PDT via Zoom (live interpretation from Spanish to English is involved)

Adrift is a residency program curated by Bahía Colectiva in collaboration with LA Filmforum where filmmakers connect with audiences and other practitioners by sharing a virtual archive of the process materials behind their film and video works. The materials showcased may include: texts, images, sounds, music, research notes, drawings, sculpture, found objects, film references, food recipes, news reports, text messages, accidental encounters, inspirations, conversations, arguments, dreams, etc.  Existing in virtuality, Adrift is a borderless space for community building and broadening collective knowledge between filmmakers, artists, curators and enthusiasts.

We are excited to announce Alejandro Alonso Estrella as our artist in residence this week. His work meditates on the ideological constructs of nationhood, homeland and access. Through experimentation with form and visual language he trifles with territorial limitations to reflect on alternative Cuban futures and reimagine the past. The archive of unseen materials will be accessible through Bahía Colectiva’s online platform. https://bahiacolectiva.com/ The film screening and discussion on the exposed archive will be streamed through LA Filmforum’s website.

Programmed by Bahía Colectiva.

Ticketing for Alejandro Alonso Estrella: Sliding Scale, requested $12 for general admission, $8 students/seniors, $0 for Filmforum members, at https://watch.eventive.org/aaaestrella/play/61402a49779887005abadfbc

Total Runtime: 77 mins

Alejandro Alonso Estrella (1987, Cuba) graduated in Documentary Direction from Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV). His short documentaries have won awards at many festivals. The Farewell (2014) had its world premiere at IDFA. Duel (2016) was premiered at Cinema du Réel; it won the prize for the best short film at the 32 Film Festival of Mar del Plata and for the best short film at the 58 Festival of Poppoli. His first feature documentary, The Project (2017), premiered at Visions du Réel and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at DOK Leipzig. Terranova (2021) won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award in Rotterdam. During 2017 and 2019, coordinated the Alternative Cinema Master programme at EICTV.

Bahía Colectiva is a community of filmmakers who collaborate in cinematic practice and curation. In collectivity, we share our learnings, our inspirations, our successes, and our losses. Together, we experiment with cinematic languages and dismantle dominating modes of production. We look for forms of resistance through our exchange and the communal dissection of socio-political issues, and aim to take part in the work towards demarginalizing independent, essayistic and experimental cinema. Our work is driven by a process of questioning and centers on themes including, but not limited to: borders, immigration, trees, memory, ghosts, demons, forensics, ancestral connections, landscapes as protagonists, physical and virtual realities, the dark web, land vs territory, exile, decoloniality, gender, our mothers, our grandmothers and waves. 

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