In Banrep República also explore the Festival of the Image

LA PATRIA / MANIZALES

The headquarters of the Banco de la República de Manizales Cultural Center is once again an ally of the International Image Festival in its 20th edition. This time it will be in four virtual spaces and you will be able to be part of them by connecting through Facebook and the channel Youtube of the Festival.

Ivonne Paola Mendoza Niño, manager of the Bank, said that the first meeting will be tomorrow, at 10:00 am, with the Spaniard Andrés Hispano. “It will offer a conference on photography and how to appropriate the image in different spaces,” he said.

That same day, but in the afternoon, the LABS Meeting will take place in the creation room of the Bank. There they will develop experiences of projects and collective research processes, production that integrates art with science and technology.

Editing tables

Photo | Darío Augusto Cardona | HOMELAND

A third meeting takes place at the editing tables. According to the manager, this year the Festival opened a call to submit images related to the national strike in order to put together a great collective work between participants and editors invited to the event.

176 photographers from all over the country participated in this initiative and each one could send a maximum of 20 photographs. The best ones will be selected by the editors, who will be in person today at the Rogelio Salmona Cultural Center to start the exercise from 1:00 pm The public will not have access, but will be able to follow the work live from the Facebook of the Image Festival and from the Rogelio Salmona Cultural Center.

The invited editors are Fabiola Cedillo, photographer and director of AULA (Ecuador); Martín Bollati, photographer and director of SED editorial (Argentina); Ana María Lagos, photographer and candidate for a Doctor of Fine Arts, UCM (Colombia); Agustín Zuluaga, photographer and editor of Libros Mojados (Colombia); Francisco Mata Rosas, photographer and general coordinator of diffusion of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico); Karim Ganem Maloof, editor of the magazine El Malpensante (Colombia); Zully Sotelo, editor and director of Aqui y Allá (Colombia); Esteban Vanegas, photographer and photo editor of the newspaper El Colombiano (Colombia), and Lania Lex, photographer and director of the School of Arts and Crafts (Colombia).

According to the organizers of the Festival, the editing tables are led by Raya editorial and Matiz taller editorial, supported by the project La Penúltima Verdad and the Editorial of the University of Caldas. During the event, national and international guests curate and edit photographic projects for their transformation into editorial products, such as, in the case of Photographic Narratives, a photographic exhibition on the armed conflict in the Coffee Region.

Exposition

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Without privacy is the exhibition that is in the virtual replica of the Bank of the Republic and that you can navigate by entering the website festivaldelaimagen.com. The work shows in images how prisons, hospitals, boarding schools and even religious life leave those who have stayed in any of these places without privacy. “The innovation is that we have been working with artists and their physical works, but they are also moving to the digital world,” said Mendoza.

This work is presented by the Spanish Paroramic Festival, which is a special guest of the 20th edition of the Image Festival.

Films

Photos | Taken from festivaldelaimagen.com | HOMELAND

During this 20th edition of the International Image Festival, the program has the Digital Cinema (and) section, which will have 27 works exhibited until June 14 in various formats such as short films, film essays, feature films, among others, which you can see through Retina Latina. A sample is:

* Control plan

Brazil / 2018/16 minutes

Synopsis: In 2016, a right-wing political coup brought down the first woman elected president in Brazil. In this dystopian political context, Marcela uses her cell phone’s teleportation service to leave the country. But when the balance runs out, it ends up lost between the antennas and the television of the 90s.

*84

Colombia / 2020/13 minutes

Synopsis: In Colombia the peace agreement of 2017 is in danger and violence takes over the country. Two films filmed in 1984, lost in the same box for more than 30 years, come to light together. 84 drags the viewer between fiction and documentary, towards a country divided into country and city, condemned by a dark omen of repetition.

* It’s all the salt’s fault

Colombia / 2020/10 minutes

Synopsis: Comprehensive and questioning look at the excesses, absences and responsibilities of the members of a family of sloth bears. The eldest daughter will be in charge of rebuilding family memories. This animated work uses illustrated archival images to explore fictional narratives, video essays, and mockumentary to create an intimate account of a family marked by love, morals, and vices.

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