Joaquim Jordà Residencies. Third Open Call 2024-2025

Number of residencies: 2
Grant: 9.000€ per residence
Call dates: 27 June - 11 August 2024
Organised by: 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.

Residentes y proyectos

María Aparicio (Spain, 1992) sets forth a sensitive approach to film memory and the ethics of images, and how these concepts influence interpersonal relationships. Her work explores the origins of cinema and the working class in Argentina during the so-called Época Dorada (Golden Age) of the national economy at the dawn of the twentieth century, questioning a dominant narrative of progress and development. Aparicio is the director of three feature-length films: Las Calles (2016), Sobre las nubes (2022) and Las cosas indefinidas (2023), and has been honoured with awards such as Best Director at BAFICI and Best Film at the Jeonju Festival, the Mar del Plata Film Festival, FICValdivia, the Gijón International Film Festival and Ficunam.

Andrés Jurado (Colombia, 1980) employs archive material for experimental purposes, overlapping different layers of Colombian history and memory. Jurado uses pop music to revive repressed memories of political violence and to incorporate the theatrical and the performative into film. As a film-maker his work explores the intersections of experimental and expanded film, archives, counter-archives, contemporary art, propaganda, theatre, extraterrestrials and the space race, and how they affect the construction of narratives and contemporary politics. He is the co-founder and co-director of La Vulcanizadora Laboratorio de Cine Experimental and Teatro Expandido.