Iván Z

Synopsis

Iván Z documents the director’s meeting with cult filmmaker Iván Zulueta, who—loquacious, lucid and somewhat disheartened—breaks the hermetic silence he had maintained for years in front of Andrés Duque's camera. Far from a comprehensive hagiography, this documentary focuses on the creative universe of a key director in the Spanish avant-garde, thanks to his cult—some would say cursed—film Arrebato, and speaks candidly about the fetishes and obsessions that fuel his imagination.

Biography and Films

Andrés Duque (Caracas, 1972) has made fifteen nonfiction film essays that have often been exhibited at cultural centres. He has won plaudits and prizes at festivals across the world (Punto de Vista, Cinéma du réel, Dokufest, FIDMarseille, Goya Award, Ciutat de Barcelona Award).

He has been a l’Alternativa regular since we screened his debut, Ivan Z (2004), followed by Color perro que huye (2011) and a stint on the festival jury in 2016. Last year he was one of our guest Satellites and gave a masterclass on _{Immigrant Aesthetics} to tie in with the screening of his latest film, Monte Tropic (2022), in conversation with Место на земле (A Place on Earth, Artur Aristakisian, 2001) and طريق الغربة (The Path to Emigrating, Ayoub El Mernissi, 2022).

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