‘A dance for the music of time’ is the name of the retrospective of Paul Leduc’s work at the Lisbon documentary film festival, the first in Europe and the largest ever held outside his native Mexico.
In October, DocLisboa and Cinemateca Portuguesa dedicate a retrospective of Mexican director Paul Leduc (1943-2020), which will be the largest outside its country and the first on the European continenttitled A dance to the music of time..
The announcement was made this Monday by the documentary film festival, which will screen the retrospective within the framework of its 22nd edition, which takes place between October 17 and 27.
The result of a collaboration with Cinemateca Portuguesa, this initiative dedicated to the Mexican filmmaker will have a previous session on July 5at 9:45 p.m., on the terrace of the Cinematheque, where the film will be projected As you see?an almost documentary portrait of the life of young people in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Mexico City.
In this film, “there are no protagonists, but rather a collection of micro-stories, sometimes abstract, that are almost unrecognizable inspired by texts by various writers, including some seminal authors such as José Agustín and José Revueltas,” he points out. can be read – in the statement released this Monday.
These fragments are glued together by live performances of Mexican rock bands and musicians.
Paul Leduc is a prominent name in Mexican independent cinema of the 1970s, author of a varied work, whose work has been discovered in other countries in recent years thanks to the work of the Film Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Through his films, Paul Leduc portrayed the main political and sociocultural changes in his country of origin in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, as well as central themes to understand the History of Latin America during this period: from the legacy of the Mexican revolution to the struggles of peasants against the oppression of local chiefs, passing through the different revolutions in Latin America and the consequences of globalization and neoliberal policies that have devastated the continent.
“In his cinema, Leduc always wanted to go beyond the limits of the most conventional cinematographic languages, crossing elements of documentary, poetry, dance, music and magic, resulting in this work a unique, avant-garde and independent language,” he highlights. the promoters of the initiative.
The Paul Leduc retrospective is curated by Boris Nelepo, DocLisboa programmer, and also presents the support of the UNAM International Film Festival and the Mexican Embassy.
Source: Observadora
