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Instituto Cervantes -
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 20:30
Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 17:30
Written by:
Pia Borg
Cast:
Angie Christophel, Hanna Gabriella Galbraith, Robert Blake
Cinematography:
Maxx Corkindale
Editing:
David Scarborough
Sound:
Mike Darren
Music:
Áine O'Dwyer, Księżyc
Animation:
Adam James Sinclair
Producer:
: Anna Vincent, Bonnie McBride, Pia Borg
Production:
Ritual Pictures, SLA Films
Subtitles:
Engleză
‘It’s sort of like going back to a haunted house, you can’t go back alone.’ An eclectic mix of found footage, CGI animation, and reenacted scenes, LIA BORG’s latest short film looks at collective memory from a different perspective. Glimpses of the American day-care sex-abuse hysteria from the eighties are presenting both the McMartin preschool trial and the notorious story of Pazder-Smith duo’s Michelle Remembers best-seller. By mixing all sorts of information and depicting it through different cinematic methods, formats, and material, the director highlights the means of representation and conservation that cinema posses, for better or worse. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2019)
Director:
PIA BORG was recently named as one of the ‘25 New Faces of Independent Film’ in Filmmaker magazine. In 2017 her film SILICA was featured in the Maltese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of numerous prizes including the Pardino d’Oro for best international short (Locarno Festival 2014) for the experimental documentary ABANDONED GOODS. She is currently working on her first feature, an adaptation of the short DEMONIC, presented in special screening at the 58th Semaine de la Critique.Festivals, awards:
58th Semaine de la Critique - Cannes 2019/ Adelaide Film Festival, South Australia 2018
When I first encountered the subject of DEMONIC, I was immediately fascinated by the multiple layers of truth and fiction, and by the discrepancies in the way that the story had been reported historically. The film uses both fictional and non-fiction archival elements to probe the representation of the truth alongside reconstruction and hyperreal CGI animation. It asks how a mass hysteria manifests in society. The answer is both historically fascinating and especially resonant to our present moment.