36° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TFFDOC/INTERNAZIONALE

SEGUNDA VEZ

SEGUNDA VEZ
by Dora García
Country: Belgium, Norway
Year: 2018
Duration: 94'


A film dedicated to Oscar Masotta, a pivotal theorist in the Argentinian avant-garde from the 1950s to the 1970s. Not a biopic. Masotta’s ideas on Lacanian psychoanalysis, politics and art (happenings and dematerialized art) changed the artistic landscape of the Buenos Aires preceding the dictatorship and the end of the avant-garde. The title originates from a homonymous story by Julio Cortázar, which recounts the climate of psychosis and uncertainty caused by the trauma of disappearances in Argentina.

Biography

film director

Dora García

(Valladolid, Spain, 1965) lives and works in Barcelona and Oslo. She teaches currently at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway and Le Fresnoy, France. She has represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and was present again in the Venice Biennale 2013. She took part in the 56th Venice International Art Exhibition, Documenta (2013) and other international events such as Münster Sculpture Projects in 2007, Sydney Biennale 2008 and Sao Paulo Biennale 2010. Her work is largely performative and deals with issues related to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions, paying homage to eccentric characters and antiheroes. These eccentric characters have often been the center of her film projects, such as The Deviant Majority (2010), The Joycean Society (2013) and Segunda Vez (2018).

FILMOGRAFIA

The Breathing Lesson (2001), The Glass Wall (2003), Zimmer, Gespräche (2006), Hotel Wolfers (2007), Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed (2008), Juqueri (2010), The Deviant Majority (2010), The Inadequate (2011), The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018), Love with Obstacles (2020), Si Pudiera Desear Algo (2021).

Declaration

film director

“An important part of the research work would go to filming three happenings Masotta organized in October 1966, El helicóptero, Para inducir el espíritu de la imagen and El mensaje fantasma. We had no documentation, photographs or films. There was only Masotta’s detailed descriptions. […] This allowed us to script the happenings and make them happen again. The idea was to get as close as possible to the original way of preparing, coordinating, and performing, and that means that we would make a documentary of the repetition of those happenings without rehearsing them, without the possibility of playing, or redoing anything that might not seem right. And that is what we did.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Dora García
fotografia/cinematography
Vincent Pinckaers
montaggio/film editing
Simon Arazi
musica/music
Jan Mech
produttore/producer
Auguste Orts
coproduzione/coproduction
Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Trondheim kunstmuseum, Tabakalera, Lux, Independent Cinema Office, Image/Mouvement Centre national des arts plastiques, FIDLab, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Kask - School of Arts Gent

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contatti/contacts
Auguste Orts
Marie Logie
marie@augusteorts.be
www.augusteorts.be
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