The Videopride 2017 edition featured a selection of 14 LGBT/feminist works that were projected on June 29th during the celebration of Pride Week at the La Neomudejar Museum.
rojo
Author: Ausín Sáinz
Duration: 6 ' 18 ' '
Synopsis: It is not credible that in today's civilized societies the persecution and suppression of people with a different sexual tendency occur.
The red color represents oppression, Putin, and the country he leads. Russia is exerting a brutal political and social pressure on LGBT groups. His government has disabled them in many sectors. They have also protected the attacks, even physical ones, exerted by extremist groups, towards these collectives. Putin is the ultimate responsible.
LEAVE THE GIRLS ALONE
Author: Clara Aparicio
Duration: 1 ' 37 ' '
Synopsis: Making loops with fragments of the "dance scenes" of the movies Vivre sa vie and Buffalo ' 66, the artist pays homage to Godard, Gallo and of course Eisenstein and his theory of intellectual montage.
LA VÍE IN ROSE
Author: Santiago Echeverry
Duration: 4 ' 45 ' '
Synopsis: Experimental Video created with the Kinect sensor and the Processing program that explores the perception of homosexuality from the fascist imaginary through the use of the so-called ´ Porntillismo ´.
Oppressed
Author: Adrián Martínez
Duration: 5 ' 41 ' '
Synopsis: ' Oppressed ' is a video art where it is denounced, in a metaphorical way, the situation of oppression felt by the LGBT group. As if they were the barbed wire of a wall, Adrián Martínez is immobilized by the sexual condition of many people in the world. Oppression is exercised by society that marks heteronormative and patriarchal patterns. When someone or something gets out of those heteronormativas rules, it is directly oppressed by society with great brutality.
With this video, people are encouraged to get out of the rules, to be who they really are and, above all, to fight for it, never give up.
DAMAGED GOODS
Author: Harm Weistra
Duration: 3 ' 53 ' '
Synopsis: The starting point of damaged goods is a series of comments written on the internet and YouTube, articulating a dialogue with two voices. It seems that these comments guide the movements of the two dancers apparently influencing how they should live their lives. The contrast between the comments and the intimacy of the dancers invites you to reflect and position yourself.
Mai
Author: Marta González
Duration: 7 ' 16 ' '
Synopsis: Sucs, year 2017. Comets, Mari and Pilar are three ladies who spend the afternoon in the corner bank every day. The arrival of a mysterious couple of girls to the village becomes the main topic of conversation between the three friends.
Blow
Author: Nerea Castro Andreu
Duration 14 ' 22 ' '
Synopsis: Sea and Xara are relocated in a remote mountain spot. Everything is prepared to make the leap into hiding
THE SPRING
Author: Dave Jackson
Duration: 2 ' 53 ' '
Synopsis: Our character craves to fall in love to see the colors of the spring as vivid as other artists did.
THE BLUE ANGEL
Author: Borja Segarra
Duration: 3 ' 52 ' '
Synopsis: This audiovisual piece has been created to commemorate that 27 years ago the
Homosexuality was excluded from WHO's list of mental illnesses
(World Health Organization).
Following the example of Marlene Dietrich, Madonna, Luchino Visconti and, as not our countryman, Almodóvar, great defenders of freedom and equality, we make our, his speech. To the "Think of Me" (Luz Casal), central theme of "Distant Heels" (1991,
Pedro Almodóvar), "The Blue Angel" is presented as a cry of relief to the reality that lives the collective LGTBQI.
Narcissus
Author: Francisco Brives
Duration: 2 ' 12 ' '
Synopsis: Reflection on Identity and gender from a political perspective of the body. The desired body of Narcissus by the young Aminias reflects on the structures alien to the identity that the others deposit in the desire on our bodies and their uses. Narciso has been the mythical figure of a male body that does not submit to the alien desire or patriarchal gaze on the political body. The non-acceptance of Narcissus to submit to the desire of his ¨ in love ¨ puts him as a Ulysses struggling for his individuality oblivious to the social subjugation he wants, regardless of his thinking, gender or identity. By failing to follow the guidelines Narcissus is punished and vilified, as centuries later it will happen with Sebastian. Man as a political body has been little studied and pondered. From my work on identity and political body in THE SEX OF AN ANARCHIST I continue to investigate the male identity, its desire and its non-acceptance of what is expected of the body and the desire of one.
EFFECTIVE NARRATIVE
Author: Clara Aparicio
Duration: 3 ' 37 ' '
Synopsis: Effective narrative reflects on the power of the prevailing perspective and what this means in relation to the spectator. The look controls everything. In the art world, as in the other fields, that perspective, that viewpoint, is primarily masculine. Most of the representations of women that we find in museums and galleries are made by men. This changes with the looks of women who review this position as "almighty" and the perspective itself. Following gender theory and feminist studies, it is the responsibility of art history to revise the representation system. We need alternative looks, unheard spaces, to question that imposed look that manipulates us.
Annunciation
Author: Ausín Sáinz
Duration: 59 ' '
Synopsis: Critical reflection and a parallelism of one of the miracles of the Catholic tradition, that of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and its Annunciation, bringing the event to the present day.
In Spain, same-sex marriage is admitted. What would have happened if equality had existed when the Annunciation occurred? The miracle would have been clear to be the subject man of the Annunciation and generator of life.
SEX NIGHT
Author: Don Fayel Hadrien
Duration: 7 ' 29 ' '
Synopsis: NIGHT SEX is a film of footage found on the basis of the same series of Super 8 that cut SCENE (2016). Here the objective was to exploit the aesthetic part of the years 60 the film X isolation body through clipping and out of its original sound context. Deformations exerted to capture possible to melt the film on the other to pretend continuity.
Blood
Author: Ángel Civico
Duration: 1 ' 49 ' '
Synopsis: What does it mean to have HIV?
Social stigma is one of the worst consequences for people with HIV. Lack of knowledge and ignorance are the two pillars on which this evil is based which, with pedagogy and empathy, it would be possible to eradicate.
