NOVEMBER

ANALOG ROTOSCOPY WORKSHOP & EMBROIDERY ANIMATION
by Violena Ampudia & Violeta Mora
November 1 - 2, 2024 , 16-19h.
PORTO






DAY 1: 
WKS ANALOG ROTOSCOPY
November 1st  / 16h-19h / R. Faria Guimaraes, 363, Porto (Allmo)

DAY 2: 
WKS EMBROIDERED ANIMATION
November 2  / 16h-19h / R. Faria Guimaraes, 363, Porto (Allmo)

Registration form.





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OCTOBER



October 28 - November 3,  2024:
Screening of Petricor in Barcelona, Berkeley, Madrid, Munich, Cuba and Paris as part of the official selection of the INSTAR international film festival.









¨For Violena Ampudia, the dilemma of the exile has a precise and delicate metaphor in the floating garden that mottles over the tables of her temporary “camp” in Belgium, during her creative residency at Docs Nomads, which favored the filming of Petricor. A myriad of glass jars contain fragile plants, whose roots do not yet know the soil in which they should naturally take root.

This forest, of the same Cuban origin as Ampudia, remains in a precarious, intermediate state of dangerous transience. It does not even have the luck of a greenhouse, which would provide them with small portions of land to favor their first growths. They are in danger of atrophying or drowning in the short term, unable to hold on to anything. Their development is compromised, regardless of the care they are given. They are as much in crisis as their caregiver, who seems to be in equally unstable territory, although more likely than the country she left in the irreversible past.

The filmmaker deals with the psychological and cultural reconstruction that exile imposes on her in a world that looks like a beautiful but strange marsh where emotion contrasts with nostalgia, liquefying any possible sense of stability.¨

Diario de Cuba




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October 23rd, 2024 - 20hrs (Palacio Condes de Gabia, Granada)
Screening of BLUE at Granada International Film Festival:  International Short Film Competition: Section -  Aguaespejo 1









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ANALOG ROTOSCOPY WORKSHOP by Violena Ampudia & Violeta Mora
October 12, 2024 (16h-19h) Free registration
ADAO OPEN DAY, Barreiro, Portugal.









Barreiro, Lisbon and the surroundings!

On Saturday, October 12, from 4 to 7 p.m., we'll meet at ADAO's OPEN DAY (Barreiro) to share three hours of play with images that transform when they come into physical contact with the hands.

We'll explore ANALOG ROTOSCOPY and create a piece together, going through different stages of the process including the preparation of the material, the intervention of the images through to digitization and projection.

We will share a collective space to experiment together, where imperfections and textures become surprises in the final result.

As places are limited, please register via this link if you would like to take part.




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SEPTEMBER


September 28th, 2024 - 21hrs:
Screening of BLUE at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival - International Short Film Competition: Section - Picture Perfect

















Ever since Derek Jarman, the blue screen has always signified a delicate and fragile mixture of melancholy and loss. It symbolizes one’s entry into a new phase of life, one marked by a sense of uncertainty, even fear, as well as the urge to (re)discover the serenity and voluptuous bliss of the moment. In BLUE, the result of a collaborative process exploring motherhood and post-partum depression, Violena Ampudia uses cyanotype to reproduce abstract images, patterns, diaristic fragments, animations, and printed film frames in a fabric so finely woven that it appears fragile to the touch — not unlike the contradictory, often agonizing feelings women process during early motherhood.

Curatorial presentation by Flavia Dima



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14- 15 September, 2024:
Screening of BLUE at Kiev International Short Film Festival - Section ¨Fem*Riot¨, Kiev, Ukraine.








¨The program brings together the stories of women (and about women) from different territorial, social, cultural, and traditional contexts. However, their heroines go through experiences that overcome these contextual boundaries and are characterized by a certain commonality, and, therefore, mutual understanding. This year, the focus of the selection is organically shifted in the direction of female physicality: the plots largely revolve around the theme of the first menstruation, abortion, postpartum depression, as well as already customary issues of self-acceptance and finding one's own subjectivity.¨

Curated by Maria Vasylieva and Sasha Prokopenko




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7 September, 2024:
Screening of BLUE at Experimental and Animation Video Art Program at Linoleum International Animation Film Festival - Section ¨Kids are(n´t) alright¨, Kiev, Ukraine.







¨Childhood is an experience that shapes, traumatizes and inspires us. Some of this program evokes nostalgia and at the same time eclipses it: with nightmares about home, the shock of the first adult content or red writing in a school notebook. Other films remind us that it is children who can challenge business as usual, exposing the artificial presentability of adults or provoking large-scale protests. And the show is rounded off by two parents' opinions: opposite in terms of emotions, but equally frank and touching.¨

Curator Yulia Kuznetsova.