Joaquim Jordà Residencies

Number of artists-in-residence: : 2
Call dates: 12 October – 12 November 2022
Organised by: Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille y Doclisboa
Call dates: 12 October – 12 November 2022

The Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille and Doclisboa present a new annual residencies programme aimed at film-makers and artists working in the field of the essay film, experimental cinema, and, essentially, all manifestations that shape non-fictional film. This joint residency, organised by a museum and two international film festivals, affords an opportunity to articulate different phases between the idea and the realisation of audiovisual work. Furthermore, the programme aims to support the conception, development and production of film projects in the sphere of non-fictional film, funding their execution and creating international networks of debate.

The programme pays homage to Joaquim Jordà (1935–2006), a film-maker whose work was both original and emblematic in the realm of non-fiction and with an arc that spanned the three countries of the institutions organising this residency. For instance, Jordà was honoured with Spain’s National Cinematography Award (2006), with his work a part of the Museo Reina Sofía Collection; the last retrospective at the end of his life was at FIDMarseille, in France (2006); and one of his early films, Portogallo, paese tranquilo (1969), centred on resistance against the dictatorship in Portugal. Jordà traced a non-conformist and committed path in creative documentary, characterised by the use of theatre strategies and the mise en scène of profoundly experimental narratives which this open call looks to retrieve and establish as a genealogy of contemporary non-fiction film.

The residency puts forward three stages comprising the research and development of the project and its production and circulation, and will take place in Madrid, Marseille and Lisbon.

The beneficiaries, two per year, will automatically be invited to participate at FIDLab and Doclisboa. FIDLab is a platform of international co-production which is held while FIDMarseille takes place in early July and presents different projects up for funding and distribution. The projects awarded this Residency will be automatically evaluated by a FIDLab independent panel, and even if they are not included among the selected projects, they will still encounter professional opportunities offered by the platform.

Doclisboa, meanwhile, offers artists-in-residence contacts among guests at the festival, held in Lisbon in the second fortnight of October, offering them the chance to build connections with international networks of film-makers, artists and producers.

Residentes

Leandro Listorti (Argentina, 1976) indaga en el pasado del cine a partir de la memoria material de este medio, desde archivos fílmicos a películas familiares. Un tema subyacente en su investigación es cuestionar cómo el cine ha representado la naturaleza, en una relación que busca ir más allá del lenguaje de dominación y control de la modernidad. En su proyecto para la residencia, aborda el cine científico en la Antártida y pretende trazar una contrahistoria del cine a través de una relación intuitiva y sensible con la naturaleza, el paisaje y el territorio.    

Elise Florenty (Francia, 1978) y Marcel Türkowsky (Alemania, 1978) exploran contextos sociopolíticos e históricos desde el prisma de los estados alterados de conciencia, como la locura lúcida, las alucinaciones y los sueños. Exponen la multiplicidad del yo y su constante transformación, lo que invita a reflexionar sobre la relación con el otro. El proyecto cinematográfico premiado combina investigación antropológica, poesía y crítica geopolítica e investiga los orígenes del Fouquieria columnaris, un árbol del desierto de Sonora con significados simbólicos malignos tanto en la literatura (Lewis Carroll) como en los mitos indígenas (la comunidad Comcáac). El árbol representa el final y el nuevo comienzo de la vida.