EVENTS 2011-2012
The LUC Research Centre organizes a range of activities for researchers, students, opinion leaders, professionals and the general public. Some events are by invitation only, others are open to anyone who is interested. Below you will find the list of activities scheduled for this academic year.
Selected events that are organised by LUCRC partner institutes or events that are in line with LUC Research Centre's research agenda are listed below as well. Please check the individual website for details regarding registration.
If you would like to be kept up to date with events and developments at the LUC Research Centre, please register for our mailing list by writing to: mailinglist@lucresearch.nl
Selected events that are organised by LUCRC partner institutes or events that are in line with LUC Research Centre's research agenda are listed below as well. Please check the individual website for details regarding registration.
If you would like to be kept up to date with events and developments at the LUC Research Centre, please register for our mailing list by writing to: mailinglist@lucresearch.nl
Filmseries 'Screening the Political - A Window on Latin America'
Films are like bridges: they help us to see and connect with others, and other realities. Aside of entertaining, they can play a crucial role in decoding (un)known forms of life, making them visible and making us aware of the imbricate forms and connective networks exisiting across different historical events and spacial realities.
Since it was first formulated, the question what is political? has been related to the necessary spatiality and temporality of the human condition: plurality, which implies having something in common - already a spatial determinant - and deeds and words that are expressed in public, in turn giving form to the public. In this sense, we have always somehow 'screened' the political, as a way to (trans)form our understanding of what is public.
Screening the Political is a research initiative that will address various topics-views. The launching gaze is on Latin America. During the second half of the academic year 2011-2012 we will gather to watch a selection of films/documentaries, followed by a debate lead by invited speakers coming from various disciplinary backgrounds and activities.
Since it was first formulated, the question what is political? has been related to the necessary spatiality and temporality of the human condition: plurality, which implies having something in common - already a spatial determinant - and deeds and words that are expressed in public, in turn giving form to the public. In this sense, we have always somehow 'screened' the political, as a way to (trans)form our understanding of what is public.
Screening the Political is a research initiative that will address various topics-views. The launching gaze is on Latin America. During the second half of the academic year 2011-2012 we will gather to watch a selection of films/documentaries, followed by a debate lead by invited speakers coming from various disciplinary backgrounds and activities.
América Invertida (1943) by Joaquín Torres García
This drawing from 1943 became a centerpiece in the history of Latin American efforts at reclaiming themselves in a world vision. Torres García placed the South Pole at the top of the earth, thereby suggesting a visual affirmation of the importance of the continent, and in an effort to present a pure revision of the world.
Further information with details about the dates, films and commentators can be found below.
Everybody is welcome to attend!
Everybody is welcome to attend!
convenor: Dr. Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (d.a.vicherat.mattar@luc.leidenuniv.nl)
LUCRC would like to thank the organisers of the Movies That Matter film festival for their collaboration in the 'Screening the Political' research initiative.
Upcoming events
Enter the category for this item: February 2012
Wednesday 22 February
13.45-16.15 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
13.45-16.15 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
Tambien la lluvia / Even the rain
I. Bollain, Bolivia – 2010
Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply.
Speakers: Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (LUC), Rosalba Icaza (ISS)
Enter the category for this item: March 2012
Wednesday 7 March
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
Machuca
A. Wood, Chile – 2004
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Speaker: Gerard van de Ree (Utrecht University College)
Wednesday 21 March
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
Impunidad / Impunity
J.J. Lozano & H. Morris, Colombia – 2010
Colombia today: the biggest trial against Paramilitary armies - accused of killing thousands of Colombians - is designed to create "peace and justice". Instead the process comes to an abrupt halt, when the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered.
Are the victims' families doomed to stay victims forever or are they able to fight Impunity?
Speaker: Edwin Koopman (Journalist Radio Netherlands Latin-America)
22-28 March
The Hague
The Hague
Movies that Matter Filmfestival
The Movies that Matter Festival is the Netherlands' main platform for engaged cinema, with dozens of documentaries and movies of inspired film makers being screened every year. Films that stir the debate about human rights, human dignity and situations where these are at stake. The films often have their first and final screening at the festival.
Apart from the regular film programme an elaborate "in-depth" programme of talk shows and debates, among other things, enables the audience to exchange views with international human rights defenders, film makers, politicians and journalists.
For more information, please visit the Movies that Matter website
The Movies that Matter Festival is the Netherlands' main platform for engaged cinema, with dozens of documentaries and movies of inspired film makers being screened every year. Films that stir the debate about human rights, human dignity and situations where these are at stake. The films often have their first and final screening at the festival.
Apart from the regular film programme an elaborate "in-depth" programme of talk shows and debates, among other things, enables the audience to exchange views with international human rights defenders, film makers, politicians and journalists.
For more information, please visit the Movies that Matter website
Enter the category for this item: April 2012
Sunday 15 April
Filmhuis Den Haag
Spui 191
The Hague
please check the Movies that Matter website for the time
Filmhuis Den Haag
Spui 191
The Hague
please check the Movies that Matter website for the time
El Premio / The Prize
P. Markovitch, Argentina – 2011
Ceci is seven years old, and has to keep a huge secret. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? A semi-autobiographical tale set in the 1970s about a young girl who grows up in a seaside village.
Screening and debate by Movies that Matter at the Filmhuis Den Haag
Wednesday 25 April
Louis Hartlooper Complex
Tolsteegbrug 1
Utrecht
this movie is part of the LAFF festival
please check the website for the time
Louis Hartlooper Complex
Tolsteegbrug 1
Utrecht
this movie is part of the LAFF festival
please check the website for the time
El Mocito / The Young Butler
M. Said & J. de Certeau, Chile, France – 2010
Jorgelino Vergara was 14 years old when he left the provinces to come to the capital, Santiago. The search for a new home and a surrogate family brought him to a villa where the henchmen of the Pinochet regime interrogated, tortured and murdered their political enemies. Here Jorgelino became the "houseboy", a little errand boy who made coffee for the torturers. Today this man, who lives completely alone in a run-down hut, looks back on his wasted life. He was too close to the perpetrators to be rehabilitated as a victim of the regime. But at the same time he was too young and also too uninvolved to be counted from today’s perspective among the murderers, most of whom were able to escape into hiding unrecognized in 1990 and are still being looked for today by those left behind. El mocito accompanies Jorgelino in a phase of his life in which he sets out to come to terms with himself and his past. The journey leads him to places and people who were once important for him, or still are. His personal story and the huge national tragedy of Chile begin to increasingly reflect each other – the film seeks out the analogies with great sensitivity, and finds them more in pictures than in words.
Roundtable: LAFF & Daniela Vicherat (LUC)
18-27 April
Louis Hartlooper Complex
Tolsteegbrug 1
Utrecht
Louis Hartlooper Complex
Tolsteegbrug 1
Utrecht
Latin American Film Festival
Each year, LAFF introduces and presents the work of (new) filmmakers from and dealing with Latin America. Of course, there is no such thing as a single Latin American film culture; Latin America is home to a rich and highly diverse range of film cultures. With the sixty films that make up this year’s programme, LAFF intends to provide an overview of this diversity, in terms of themes, countries and narrative forms. Many of these films will have their Dutch premières at LAFF.
For more information, please visit the LAFF website
Each year, LAFF introduces and presents the work of (new) filmmakers from and dealing with Latin America. Of course, there is no such thing as a single Latin American film culture; Latin America is home to a rich and highly diverse range of film cultures. With the sixty films that make up this year’s programme, LAFF intends to provide an overview of this diversity, in terms of themes, countries and narrative forms. Many of these films will have their Dutch premières at LAFF.
For more information, please visit the LAFF website
Enter the category for this item: May 2012
Wednesday 16 May
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
Cuando las Montañas Tiemblan / When the mountains tremble
N.T. Siegel & P. Yates, USA, Guatemala - 1983
This vigorous and persuasive documentary describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Rigoberta Menchú, a Quich Indian woman, the film knits a variety of forms--- interviews, direct address, re-enactment, video transmission, and on the spot footage shot at great hazard--- into a wide-ranging and remarkable cohesive epic canvas of the Guatemalan struggle.
Speaker: Martitza Urrutia (Guatemalan activist)
Wednesday 30 May
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
16.00-19.00 hrs
LUC The Hague
Students Lounge
South of the Border
Oliver Stone, USA – 2009
There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raul Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.
Speaker: Arij Ouweneel (CEDLA) (tbc)
