Excentrico Film Festival Shorts

Shortfilm program, 68 min.

Southern Porn: Tales and Stories from Abya Yala

A Special Program curated and presented by Nicola Rios (Excentrico, Chile)

https://excentricofest.com (in Spanish)

In the Kuna language, “Abya Yala” means “fully mature land” or “the land of vital blood”. Since pre-Columbian times, the term had been used to refer to what we now know as “America”, the moniker imposed on the continent by its European colonizers. Honoring this tradition, this program brings together nine short films produced in the vast southern lands of Abya Yala. A landscape of tales and stories depicting the myriad layers, languages and aesthetics used by present-day filmmakers from what is known as “Latin America” or by migrant filmmakers in the diaspora.

The program first leads us barefoot into the tangible memories of colonization, inviting us to reflect on contemporary issues such as the racialization of desire or the pornographic structure of the state and military violence. It then shifts towards the intimate and biographical, reflecting the many languages present in pornographic field: poems, passionate letters, and bodily proclaims. It ends with two short films that take us deeper into sexual and fictional memories, breaking down early pornographic experiences into new sexual and creative possibilities.

Nicola Rios

Ellxs andaban todxs desnudxs, Colectivo Ayllu, ES 2018, 3 min, span. OV + engl. UT
Carta para cualquier cuerpo blanco que se atreva a leerla, Ricardo Velmor, BO/GT 2019, 3 min, span. OV + engl. UT
Nacer ceniza, Morir maleza, Diego Argote, CL 2020, 3 min, span. OV + engl. UT
Mosquerío, Fernanda Gallardo & María Catalina Jorquera, CL 2020, 10 min, span. OV + engl. UT
Autoprazer Poema Mental, Cairo y Paulx, BR 2020, 6 min, port. OV + engl. UT
Contato (Contact), Andiara Ramos Pereira & Toni Márquez, BR/US 2020, 5 min, port. OV + engl. UT
Gordentes, Kono AKA La cerda Punk, BR 2020, 7 min, span./port. OV + engl. UT
Eroticam, Elisa Díaz & Paola Meza, CL 2020, 15 min, span. OV + engl. UT
Ob Scena, Paloma Orlandini, AR 2021, 18 min, span OV + engl. UT

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