Aquí y allá
Here and there
2020 | 21 min. | Argentina, France | Spanish, French
[EN] Aquí y allá is an essay-film that studies what being at home means. The filmmaker uses photographs, maps and Google Earth to connect places around the globe; not just from her own past, but also from the complex migratory history of her family that stretches back to Hitler-era Germany and Mao's China. Reality and the virtual prove equally confusing: however much you zoom in, you never get closer to home.
[ES] Aquí y allá es un ensayo que se pregunta por el significado del hogar. La realizadora utiliza fotografías, mapas y Google Earth para conectar sitios alrededor del globo, no solamente pertenecientes a su pasado, sino también a la compleja historia migratoria de su familia, que se remonta a la Alemania de la época de Hitler y a la China de Mao. Lo real y lo virtual resultan igualmente confusos: ¿aquí o allá? Tal vez en ambos al mismo tiempo.
Directed by Melisa Liebenthal
Produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Festivals (selection)
WP: 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Tiger Short Competition (Netherlands)
2020 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra - Official Selection (Spain) / Jury's Special Mention
2020 Oberhausen Internationale Kurzfilmtage - Official Selection (Germany)
2020 FIDBA Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires - Argentinian Short Films Competition (Argentina)
2020 Leiden Shorts (Netherlands) / Student Award
2020 New York Film Festival - Currents (USA)
2020 Linea d’Ombra Festival - LineaDoc Competition (Italy)
2020 Kaohsiung Film Festival - Time Voyage (Taiwan)
2020 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Competition (Canada)
2020 Black Canvas - Beyond the Canvas Competition (Mexico) / Young Canvas Award - Best Film of Beyond the Canvas Competition
2020 Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Festifreak - Argentinian Short Films Competition (Argentina)
2020 Cámara Lúcida - Encuentros Cinematográficos (Equator)
2020 Bogotá Short Film Festival - Experimental Competition (Colombia)
2020 Cinemateca Uruguaya - International Short Film Competition (Uruguay)
2020 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival - The map is not the territory (Romania)
2020 Festival PLAY Videoarte y Cine Experimental (Argentina) - National selection / Special mention
2021 London Short Film Festival - International Competition (UK)
2021 RISC Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas - Short Film Competition (France)
2021 Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos (Argentina) / Honorific mention
Exhibitions
2019 Panorama 21 - Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, France) / Amis du Fresnoy Best Film Award
2021 BIdeOtik. Atendiendo a otras narrativas audiovisuales - Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao, Spain)
2021 To Film With One Hand My Other Hand curated by Sara Castelo Branco - Galeria Zé Dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021 Aricadoc Creadoras - Encuentro de cine documental hecho por realizadoras latinoamericanas (Chile)
2021 Art Encounters Biennial - Landscape in a Convex Mirror curated by Mihnea Mircan (Timisoara, Romania)
2021 Cinezeta : Jóvenes programando - Cineteca Madrid (Spain)
2022 Biennale artpress des jeunes artistes @MO.CO. @Musée Fabre (Montpellier, France)
Nominations
2022 70º Cóndor de Plata Awards - Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film (Argentina)
Crew
Script and Direction • Melisa Liebenthal
Cinematography • Hélène Motteau
Sound design and Music • Clément Decaudin
Editing • Florencia Gómez García
VFX • Pierre-Yves Boisramé
Set decoration • Camila Rodríguez Triana
Poster and Title design • Leandro Ibarra
