VIU presents: El mundo mágico de Lotte

Taller de Músics invites Júlia Cruz Sesé and VIU.

VIU is a silent film series with original live music that recalls the old ways of adding music to film, but far from the typical soundtracks that used to accompany the silent films. It seeks to offer a different musical and cinematographic show and to generate a space of intersection and confluence between different disciplines and historical moments, as well as between artists and spectators.

VIU invites you to recover and revisit films created and directed by pioneering women in cinema. It is an original idea by Ro Rapoport, developed in collaboration with the Zumzeig team, a cooperative cinema in the city of Barcelona.

The film material selected for this edition is the work of Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981), a pioneer in short and long animated films with silhouettes. This edition was developed in collaboration with the illustrator Silustra, who also made the poster.

The original live music will be provided by Ro Rapoport, with special guest from Taller de Músics, Júlia Cruz Sesé.

There will be a talk dedicated to the director, her historical context and her way of working and creating. To close the activity, an illustration will be handed out to the audience so that they can take it with them, cut it out, interact with it and make their own animated film.

Lotte Reiniger will always hold a singular place in the history of cinema for being the first to develop a singular art: the creation of animated films made with cut silhouettes that came to life through the cinematographic camera. With just a pair of scissors and some black paper, she could make floating palaces and dancing birds or give shape to evil demons. Her films insinuate more than they reveal, since the director chose to hide or veil the details that could give her creations a conventional realism. That is why Lotte Reiniger's creations are poetic and rustic in their beauty and are, perhaps today more than ever, of absolute relevance.

“I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper." —Lotte Reiniger

Activity curated by Taller de Músics
With the participation of Júlia Cruz Sesé, Ro Rapoport and Silustra
With the collaboration of VIU, silent film series with live music

Júlia Cruz Sesé (Fraga, 1993) is a singer, actress and teacher. Trained in Early Childhood Education and Performance (with a specialisation in Musical Performance) at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, she develops her career as a dialogue between music and stage. She has been part of projects such as Paral·lelus Banda and companies such as El Sidral Saraos and Ariadna i el Minotaure. She is currently working with Los Titiriteros de Binèfar and in folklore projects such as "A Violeta" and "Sentidos”. In 2024, she published her first EP, Deixar-me caure, with the support of Cabal Musical (Taller de Músics).

@juliacruzsese

Ro Rapoport is a composer, cultural producer and trainer. In recent years, her practice has focused on sound art, RSMA, contact microphone and deep listening of the territory, combining voice and guitar with materials not intended for sound. She develops experimental string instruments and sound sculptures. She creates music for audiovisuals, theatre and performances, and is the creator of VIU, a silent film series with live music. She is co-founder of Las Pibas Producen, a collective that works for visibility and equality in art and culture. She has been teaching classes and workshops for more than fifteen years.

rorapoport.com

Silustra is a visual artist and illustrator. She studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and has a degree in Visual Arts and Digital Illustration for new media. Specialised in vector drawing and silkscreen printing, she teaches the postgraduate course in Digital Illustration at BAU, in Barcelona. She develops digital illustration, editorial and packaging projects. Her work is located at the crossroads between illustration, graphic arts and mural painting, and builds visual systems of strong identity from geometric compositions and an active relationship with typography and colour.

@silustra