PERIODISTAS UNIDOS
La 19.ª edición de «Ambulante Gira de Documentales» inicia su recorrido el 10 de abril en CDMX
United Journalists. Mexico City, March 20, 2024.- On April 10, the nineteenth edition of the Ambulante Documentary Tour will begin with a program of more than 90 films, in which activities and meeting spaces are resumed to strengthen the collective experience that it unfolds from documentary cinema.
The Tour will visit four states of the Mexican Republic between April 10 and May 26, 2024: Mexico City (April 10 to 21); Veracruz (May 2 to 12); Michoacán (from May 8 to 19); and Querétaro (from May 15 to 26). In parallel with the territorial tour of the Tour, part of the programming will also be available online for users throughout the national territory through www.nuestrocine.mx , on the following days of May 2024: from the 2nd to the 5th , 9 to 12 and from 16 to 19.
The programming is made up of more than 90 titles, from more than 23 countries, in 27 languages - of which 7 are indigenous languages -, with 1 world premiere and 14 national premieres. The programming is divided into nine sections:
- Pulses (panorama of the Mexican documentary feature film).
- Intersections (international contemporary documentary cinema).
- Resistance (with a focus on justice, resilience and the defense of human rights).
- Rearview mirror (focusing on films that bring the film archive to life).
- Sonidero (in homage to resonances, sound and music).
- Ambulantito, (section aimed at children).
- Invocations (retrospectives dedicated to filmmakers who have marked a watershed in documentary).
- Graft (section dedicated to avant-garde cinema).
- Coordinates (Mexican films from each region that the Tour visits).
The special program Ecologies of Cinema (works that promote transformations for the defense of the territory), will present the documentary The White Guard , by Julien Elie, in Veracruz, Michoacán and Querétaro.
In addition to an extraordinary and diverse selection of titles, during the Tour there are workshops, conversations, master classes, Q&A, video installation, documentary theater, activations with childhood, projections interpreted in Mexican Sign Language and various mediation processes that seek to provoke changes in the perception of our audiences. Screenings and events will be mostly free.
The nineteenth edition of the Documentary Tour will begin its journey in Mexico City with a program of 78 activities spread across twenty venues . From April 10 to 21, screenings, talks, master classes, a video installation, workshops and conferences will be held, two of them dedicated to childhood. Admission will be free to 65% of events.
As part of the special activities of the Tour in Mexico City, the presence of special guests stands out: the American filmmaker Lynne Sachs, who will teach the master class “Marcos y stanzas. Lynne Sachs on cinema and poetry” and the practical film workshop “Open the family album”, presented by Ambulante in collaboration with the Experimental Film Laboratory, Kino Rebelde and the Digital Culture Center within the “Cinema Beyond” program »; Also, artist Nikki Schuster will carry out the video installation uprooted , which weaves a collective narrative from testimonies and analysis of voices along the tracks of the Mayan Train: destruction, social division and the loss of Mayan identity. This activity has the support of the Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy in Mexico, among other accompanied activities.
The Documentary Tour will present a program of short films by Marie Losier and the installation of her loop boxes , small boxes designed and decorated by herself, which contain three audiovisual works in infinite loop, in collaboration with the French Institute of Latin America (IFAL) , Trampoline Association and Casa del Lago UNAM.
In collaboration with Makesense Americas and TikTok México, we will present “Crisis Cruzadas”, a campaign in which we will bring together ten TikTok content creators to expand the conversation about the climate crisis from an intersectional perspective. Within the framework of this campaign, we will screen a documentary capsule at various functions and some creators will participate in an in-person activity at IFAL.
The inaugural screening of the Documentary Tour will take place on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Esperanza Iris City Theater. The film Three Promises will be screened , where director Yousef Srouji takes up the filming made by his mother during the Israeli army’s reprisals against the second intifada in the West Bank, Palestine. The function will be attended by Marielle Olentine, producer of the documentary. Admission is free and space is limited.
From April 12 to 14, the Documentary Tour will offer a selection of feature films that will be screened at Cinépolis Diana and Cinépolis Universidad, through the Cinépolis® Art Room. For followers of the Documentary Tour , Cinépolis will have the traditional Cinebono, with a cost of $180 pesos for four tickets, as well as a special cost of $60 per individual ticket.
At the Cinépolis Diana venue, during the Ambulante period, the following will be presented: Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin (2023) by Katia deVidas, Copa 71 (2023) by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine, Nocturnas (2024) by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan, Patrullaje (2023) by Camilo de Castro Belli and Brad Allgood, Sr (2024) by Lea Hartlaub, and Ch’ul be, Senda Sagrada (2023) by Humberto Gómez. At Cinépolis Universidad, titles such as El Eco (2023) by Tatiana Huezo, Favoriten (2024) by Ruth Beckermann, Inside of me I am dancing (2023) by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann, Queendom (2023) by Agniia Galdanova, and Malqueridas (2023) will be presented. ) by Tana Gilbert.
There will be performances accompanied by the presence of filmmakers and protagonists of the documentaries. Among the guests are Emiliano Ruprah de Fina, director of The Guardian of the Monarchs ; Lynne Sachs, director of Film About a Father Who ; Johan Grimonprez, director of Soundtrack for a coup d’état ; Marielle Olentine, producer of Tres Promesas ; Humberto Gómez, director of Ch’ul be, sacred path ; and Claudia Ignacio Álvarez, protagonist of Patrol. Activists, academics, researchers and artists from various disciplines will also join us.
The venues where activities will take place are: House of the First Printing Press of America UAM, Casa del Lago UNAM, Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico (CCEMx), José Martí Cultural Center, UNAM University Cultural Center, Digital Culture Center, Center National Arts Center (Cenart), Cinépolis Diana, Cinépolis Universidad, Cineteca Nacional, Cineteca Nacional de las Artes, Cine Tonalá, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences UNAM, Faro Aragón, Faro Cosmos, La Cine-Fonda, Le Cinéma IFAL, La Cave, Casa de la Paz Theater UAM, Esperanza Iris City Theater, Underground Paradise.
Ambulante appreciates the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), Ford Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust, Ben & Frank, Cinépolis, LCI Seguros, Labodigital, R7D, Cerveza Monstruo de Agua and Fundación Heinrich Böll who contribute to making Tour possible. Likewise, we extend our gratitude to the Secretariats of Culture of the states we visited and to all the sponsors who join their efforts with us, as well as to the different embassies, foundations, headquarters, universities, restaurants, media and all collaborators and collaborators without whom this festival would not take place. Thanks to the volunteers whose invaluable support and dedication have made it possible for the Documentary Tour to reach its 19th edition.
Centro de Cultura Digital
Retrospectiva a Lynne Sachs. Programa de cortometrajes 1
The Cine más allá (CCD) in collaboration with Ambulante and the curatorship of the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine, dedicates a retrospective to the American filmmaker Lynne Sachs, an obligatory reference of avant-garde cinema in recent years, whose work, as personal – sometimes even intimate – as it is political, is characterized by an uncompromising aesthetic search and experimentation, through documentary, essay, collage and a myriad of formal and technical explorations.
This retrospective is grouped in Ambulante’s Invocations section. The section is made up of two programs of short films, one on film and the other on digital, and two feature films.
Short film program 1:
Window Work, 9 min. 2000
Atalanta 32 Years Later, 5 min. 2006
A Month of Single Frames (for Barbara Hammer). 14 min. 2019
Wind in Our Hair/ Con viento en el pelo, 40 min. 2010
And Then We Marched, 4 min. 2017
Maya at 24, 4 min. 2021
A Year of Notes and Numbers, 4 min. 2018
Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor, 8 min. 2018
About:
Lynne Sachs makes films, installations, collages, performances and web projects that explore the intrinsic relationship between personal observation and broader historical experiences by interweaving poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design.
Strongly committed to the dialogue between art theory and practice, in her films she pursues a rigorous interplay between image and sound, pushing visual and aural textures further with each new project. Lynne discovered her love of filmmaking while living in San Francisco, where she collaborated with artists such as Bruce Conner, Ernie Gehr, Gunvor Nelson, Barbara Hammer and Trin T. Min-ha. Lynne’s recent work combines fiction, non-fiction and experimental modes. She has made over 25 films that have screened at the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Images Festival in Toronto, among others. They have also been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts and other national and international institutions. The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), the New International Film Festival in Havana and the Women’s Film Festival in China have presented retrospectives of her films. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is a part-time lecturer in the Art Department at Princeton University.
Program:
Laboratorio Experimental de Cine is a non-profit civil association dedicated to the training, production, curatorship and dissemination of experimental and peripheral cinema. Through collaboration, they promote the moving image and its relationship with other artistic formats to create a cinema that expands and challenges the limits of conventional audiovisual language.
Marvin
El Cine más Allá del LEC y CCD en la Cineteca y Ambulante
https://marvin.com.mx/el-cine-mas-alla-del-lec-y-ccd-en-la-cineteca/
Encounter with other cinematographies: in a huge proposal of movies that will take you out of your comfort zone.
The Cinema Beyond program of the Experimental Cinema Laboratory , LEC and the Digital Culture Center, CCD expands and reaches the National Cinematheque. Cinema Beyond is a project that presents films that go beyond the traditional formats of film projection and exhibition, seeking exploration and encounter with other cinematographies that are marginal, singular, reckless, committed and experimental.
This April the program begins with a retrospective of Ricardo Nicolayevsky. The program is made up of portraits and personal works of the artist. Nicolayevsky is a reference for avant-garde cinema in Mexico. Most of his works were made in the early eighties in Super8 and 16mm formats.
The Ambulante Festival also adds Cinema Beyond to its programming and presents a Lynne Sachs retrospective, which includes a master class, talks, the screening of two of her feature films at the Cineteca Nacional, as well as two short film programs and the results of the workshop ongoing “Open the family album” at the Digital Culture Center.
The Cinema Beyond program brings you artists such as Masha Godovannaya (Russia), Luis Macías (Spain), Mariana Botey (Mexico), Narcisa Hirsch (Argentina), Craig Baldwin (United States), Peter B. Hutton (United States), Saul Levine (United States) and Yevgeny Yufit (Soviet Union-Russia), led by programmers such as Manuel Trujillo, Salvador Amores, Itzel Martínez and Tomás Rautenstrauch.
Discover the complete Cinema Beyond programming on the networks of the CCD @ccdmx and those of the Cineteca Nacional @cinetecanacionalmx , on their website centroculturadigital.mx and cinetecanacional.net .
Morelia Film Festival
Ambulante announces the titles that complete its 2024 edition
https://moreliafilmfest.com/ambulante-anuncia-los-titulos-que-completan-su-edicion-2024
The Ambulante 2024 documentary tour will take place from April 10 to May 26, 2024 and will visit Mexico City from April 10 to 21, Veracruz from May 2 to 12, Michoacán from May 8 to 19 and Querétaro from the 15 to May 26.
Previously, Ambulante announced the programming of its Pulses and Coordenadas sections . Now, two more spaces are revealed in the four: Ambulantito, Rearview Mirror, Intersections and Invocations. Here we tell you everything about them.
Ambulantito
This section of the festival is designed for children and this year’s program is titled “From outer space to the inner world.” For this reason, this edition there will be a live cinema proposal with the interactive kaleidoscopic Observatory, which will function as a celestial vault.
This space will seek to mix cinema from the past with the future to “contemplate the infinitely small and the majestically large.” Mixing sky and earth will invite the discovery of new ways of navigating the world.
The programming will include:
- Journey to Jupiter , by Segundo de Chomón (France, 1909)
- Jungle Inside , by Dominique Jonard (Mexico, 1992)
- Matero and the cinema , by Luis Felipe Hernández Alanis (Mexico, 2014)
- Zoon , by Jonatan Schwenk (Germany, 2019)
- The Moon , by Laura Ginès Bataller, Pepon Meneses (Spain, 2020)
- Tide , by Lucie Andouche (Switzerland, 2023)
We are not prepared to be superheroes, by Lia Bertels (Belgium, Portugal, Spain, 2019)
Rearview
This section aims to present on screen works from the past that have been publicly or privately archived. The program that will follow this edition is “Look to inhabit”, whose three short films are pioneers of community cinema.
Community cinema has always been of great interest to Ambulante for exemplifying the social power of documentary by being an alternative to “inhabit and face the complex reality.”
The programming will include:
- Our tequio , from the Assembly of Zapotec and Chinantec Authorities of the Sierra (Mexico, 1981)
- Murmurs of the volcano , by Valente Soto (Mexico, 1997)
- Teat Monteok . The story of the God of lightning, by Elvira Palafox (Mexico, 1985)
Intersections
It is the section in which the great diversity of documentary film forms is revealed, in dialogue with a variety of geographies, contexts and perspectives that cross and redefine the stories of the world.
The section is made up of the following titles:
- Malqueridas , by Tana Gilbert (Chile, Germany, 2023)
- Photophobia , by Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, 2023)
- Favoriten , by Ruth Beckermann (Austria, 2024)
- Sr , by Lea Hartlaub (Germany, 2024)
- The Menu of Pleasures: The Troisgros Family , by Frederick Wiseman (United States, 2023)
- And the king said: what a fantastic machine , by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck (Sweden, Denmark, 2023)
Invocations
This section brings together retrospectives of the tour. This edition, Ambulante, in collaboration with the Laboratorio Experimental de Cine and Cine Más Allá, dedicates a retrospective to the American filmmaker Lynne Sachs, an obligatory reference in avant-garde cinema in recent years, whose work, so personal—sometimes even intimate — as a policy, it is characterized by an aesthetic search and a less than accommodating experimentation, through documentary, essay, collage and endless formal and technical explorations. The section will be made up of two short film programs, one film and the other digital:
- Your day is my night , by Lynne Sachs (United States, 2013)
- Film about a father who , by Lynne Sachs (United States, 2020)
Ambulante is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote documentary film so that people realize its power as a cultural and social tool in Mexico and Central America. It was founded in 2005 by Gael García Bernal, Diego Lunes and Elena Fortes. Its current director is Itzel Martínez del Cañizo.