FILM | BoCA Film Cycle | Roma | FREE

Three short films will be played on a loop. The exhibit is curated by the directors of the Rencontres Internationales in Paris and Berlin, Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon.

Ivan Argote’s BARCELONA: The video shows the artist lighting a statue of a bishop on the pedestal of the monument to Columbus at the end of the Ramblas in Barcelona, demonstrating his disapproval of colonialism.

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson & Libya Castro’s ILLUSION WOMAN: A young feminist heroine applies a mask while giving a speech written in collaboration with Nina Power, a British feminist and activist philosopher.

Marion Inglessi’s CATASTROPHE: Unbreakable glass cups and fragile Arabic tea cups are filmed in slow motion falling to the ground as a reflection on the current events in the world and the loss of value of human life.