Disonar

How to live in the fiction of an unlivable model? How do you build a sense of home in a country that is not your own? Is one's own body the only place of rootedness and belonging?

The dialogue of four authors of diverse origins explores the relationship they have with the city of Barcelona through uprooting, corporeality and the dissonant contradiction between the stay and the return to their places of origin.

Activity curated by Dones Visuals
With the participation of La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu
 

La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu is a film collective created by several Ibero-American visual artists living in the city of Barcelona. Lucía Dapena, Jana Montllor, Liliana Díaz and Melisa Ramírez are four of the collective's filmmakers. Their artistic processes focus on generating films that decentre the gaze and generate new visions of the world with transfeminist, anti-racist and decolonial perspectives.

They look at reality from their own perspective, from the conflicts and experiences they go through: their migratory processes, their position as women* and their diverse identities.

Lucía Dapena González, a Galician documentary filmmaker, is known for having directed the feature documentary O Silencio Herdado, which addresses the intergenerational trauma and silenced stories of the Franco regime through the experiences of her own family. Her work explores themes such as memory, family secrets and historical recognition. She is a founding partner of La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu, which, in addition to producing, creates film projects with community impact. She wrote and co-directed Disonar, a short film produced by the CCCB that premiered at D'A.

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Jana Montllor Blanes, visual anthropologist and filmmaker, is a graduate of the University of Barcelona, where she directed her first documentaries: Ciutat abandonada and Aquí viu gent. She is a founding partner of La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu, which, in addition to producing, creates film projects with community impact. She wrote and co-directed Disonar, a short film produced by the CCCB that premiered at the D'A, and Fenòmens de Mart (L), winner of the Music Library award at the Málaga WIP.

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Liliana Díaz Castillo, Colombian director, screenwriter, editor and producer based in Barcelona, is co-founder of La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu. As a director, she explores the relationship between gender, migration, space and uprooting in short films such as Focking Venus, IRIS and Disonar. She is co-screenwriter of the feature documentary ¿Dónde estabas, cuando estabas?, as well as co-screenwriter and editor of the feature documentary O Silencio Herdado.

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Melisa Ramírez Estremadoyro, visual artist born in Costa Rica and based in Barcelona since 2013, is a former founding partner of La Selva, where she was a producer and director of audiovisual content in international workshops such as Filmando a Perú con Werner Herzog and Lucrecia Martel: El sonido del verano in Barcelona and, recently, in Filmando un planeta extraño con Werner Herzog. She is the creator and coordinator of SO(M)LAB, a project that offers technical and artistic training in the form of participatory audiovisual workshops for people of migrant origin.

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