Seminar Dock Of The Bay

“Narratives of the Real”

KM Kulturunea, 14th & 15th January 2016

“An approach to music documentary film and its relationship with other film practices”

* The seminar “Narratives of the Real” will be coordinated by Fernando Golvano, lecturer at the University of the Basque Country.

This seminar, organised by the Dock of the Bay Festival in cooperation with the University of the Basque Country, KM Kulturunea (Gipuzkoa provincial authority) and the city employers’ association, sets out to deal with the narratives of music documentary film and the ways this fits into the sphere of creativity and renovation in contemporary audiovisual work. Reflection and debate about documentary film in its different expressive guises will be offered by a group of speakers linked to film-making, criticism, research and education.

Participation is by registration at the email address info@dockofthebay.es, giving a brief explanation of why you wish to take part.

Ingrid Guardiola

Thursday 14th January, 17:00
Recycled documentary: going into memory against the flow, breaking the consensus

Ingrid Guardiola (More info)

Music documentary or documentary in general as a necessary tool to go into personal and collective memory. Many of them opt for recycling, re-use, an essential practice to answer the question of what to do with the leftovers of the festival of consumption and collective amnesia.

Cíntia Gil

Thursday 14th January, 17:40
Programme first, name later: programming practice as an antidote to orthodoxies

Cíntia Gil (More info)

The dichotomy between fiction and documentary no longer serves to talk about what we do as programmers, nor is it productive when it comes to understanding and discussing artistic processes. On the basis of the experience of Doclisboa, an attempt will be made to open up some ways of thinking about productive terms for our discourses on this kind of film, which defies normative categories that conceal a particular ideological base.

Jordi Costa

Thursday 14th January, 18:30
Monsieur Hulot in non-places. Mercado de futuros [Futures Market] by Mercedes Álvarez as a secret comedy

Jordi Costa (More info)

The devalued role of memory in our present will be assessed on the basis of the feature presented. The way in which some of the images in it dialogue with others immortalised in their day by Jacques Tati invites us to look into how this documentary also works as a kind of incisive secret comedy.

Javier Rebollo

Thursday 14th January, 19:00
Filming thought at the moment of thinking or how a song is made up on stage

Javier Rebollo (More info)

Processes are often more interesting than their results. We will attempt to recover and share this (sub)genre of films that show the creation of a song or record on stage, as in this legendary short featuring Serge Gainsbourg, with Don Juan by Delvaux and with Nacho Vegas in nine shots by Ramón Lluis Bande, the brutal, beautiful El fulgor.

Thursday 14th January, 19:45 - 20:30
Roundtable coordinated by Fernando Golvano

Mikel Iriondo

Friday 15th January, 17:00
The remains of memory: fictions and reality in the films of Peter Forgács

Mikel Iriondo (More info)

Our view of the past, subject to a narrative outline, seeks to understand certain past events that we consider to be firmly linked to our present identity as milestones that shape this identity. We will make use of the film documentaries by Peter Forgács to assess how a rereading of the past works, both from the strictly personal point of view of its protagonists and from a historiographical standpoint.

Virginia Villaplana

Friday 15th January, 17:40
Talking back. Documentality and rewritings of memory

Virginia Villaplana (More info)

Documentary construction of images as a joint learning experience that, above and beyond their representative function, can foster the creation of new structures of critical imagination, memories and subjectivities.

Virginia García del Pino

Friday 15th January, 18:30
Attention to the real

Virginia García del Pino (More info)

The film-maker’s approach to shooting is made more complicated when working with events, people or situations taken from reality. Moreover, this relationship between the film-maker and what they film offers viewers experiences that go beyond the narrative of film.

Carlos Heredero

Friday 15th January, 19:00
In the Land of The Headhunters: reality and representation in the origins of the documentary

Carlos F. Heredero (More info)

The aim is to reflect on the borderline between reality and representation, between fiction and reality, taking as a pretext a pioneering cinematic text (it is based on In the Land of the Head Hunters, 1914 by Edward S. Curtis) which is arguably essential testimony to the life of the Indian tribes of British Columbia.

Friday 15th January, 19:45 - 20:30
Roundtable coordinated by Fernando Golvano