Joaquim Jordà Residencies. Second Open Call 2023-2024

Number of residencies: 2
Grant: 9.000€ per residence
Call dates: 6 July - 23 August 2023
Organised by por: Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille and Doclisboa

The Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille and Doclisboa present the second edition of this 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 (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 in 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.

Residents

Richard Shpuntoff (USA, 1965) conducts his work in a place situated between writing, memory and personal archive, creating a writer’s cinema which takes in translation and dislocation as essential phenomena in narration. He developed the early part of his career in the visual arts and the field of photography, and as a director he made a dozen short films before producing his first feature-length film, Jackson Heights (2016), on the murder of a Puerto Rican sex worker in New York in 1990. His second feature, Everything that Is Forgotten in an Instant, premiered at the International Competition of FIDMarseille.

Serge Garcia (USA, 1985) is a film-maker whose work explores intersectional narratives and subjects inside the music sub-cultures of clubbing, electronic music and noise. His films encompass themes such as solitude and alienation, as well as resistance and agency. Notable in his body of film work is Grand Central Hotel (2021), a melancholy portrait of sound artist Terre Thaemlitz and an existential twist on the music documentary, and films such as Live To Be Legend (2020), Cycle One (2021) and A General Disappointment (2022).