As part of the inauguration of BAphoto Live, the CineClub section was presented, a series of films recently produced within the Argentine scene.

Conceived as a platform whose motivation is to highlight the relationship that cinema has in the field of photography and, so much more, in contemporary art, CineClub proposes a promotional space for national independent cinema.

The programming consists of a total of six selected films. Three of them feature photographers, the other three are feature films made by artists who use the cinematographic medium as an exploration tool.

Within that context, The CineClub platform was specially designed to be freely accessible through the site https://www.baphotoliive.com/cineclub, where each film will have its space on two different dates during the course of BAphoto Live.

As opening of the cycle, the 2 September was screened "The box above the wardrobe", written and directed by Lucía Riera and produced and filmed by Bernardo Blanco. The film is a documentary project built around the figure of a Swiss immigrant who travels to the Andes Mountains, where his fascination for San Rafael leads him to establish himself as the community photographer, becoming, accidentally, in the greatest witness of the foundation and development of the mentioned Mendoza department.

As for the other five films that complete the Cine Club program, they find each other: "Tombstones are not flat" -title that takes its name from a concept coined by the American scientist Anne Pringle-, video-essay by the artist Carlos Fernández-Pello that, through the idea of ​​immortality, establishes an unusual dialogue between the symbiotic biology that characterizes lichens with the foundations of postmodern architecture; "Luisita studio photo", Directed by Sol Miraglia and Hugo Manso, audiovisual reconstruction that reproduces the history of the emblematic photo studio located on Corrientes Avenue over the years 60 and its influence on the popular culture of Buenos Aires.

The most recent project by the filmmaker Andrés Di Tella also appears, "Private Fiction", work that focuses on the recovery of family memory through the correspondence between the artist's parents, Torcuato and Kamala, played by two actors; "Photographic memory", by Pablo Pintor, a documentary driven by the desire of a son who wants to give back to his father, a consecrated photographer in crisis, the creative ability to "see" again.

Finally "Minga" appears, an observational documentary directed by the artist Malala Lekander that brings us from an anthropological perspective an unconventional practice of culture of a town located on the island of Chiloé, In the south of Chile.

Programming

"Luisita studio photo" (Sol Miraglia and Hugo Manso) – Friday 4/09 and Sunday 13/09

"Private fiction" (Andres Di Tella) – Saturday 5/09 and thursday 10/09

"Photographic memory" (Pablo Painter) – Sunday 6/09 and Saturday 12/09

“Tombstones are not flat” (Carlos Frenández-Pello) – Monday 7/09

“MINGA” (Malala Lekander) – Wednesday 9/09 and Monday 14/09

"The box above the closet" (Lucia Riera) – Friday 11/09