Audiodescription
Rio Turbio
Director: Tatiana Mazú González
Argentina, 81 minutes, 2020, experimental
According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous. Then, there’s collapse and death. Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform in a film about the silence of women who live in men's villages. How to film where our presence is prohibited?
How to record the resonances of what doesn’t sound? As the fog and smoke from the power plant cover the town, the voices of the women of Shady River force their way between the white of the ice and the hum of the drilling machines, until blowing up the structure of silence.
Trigger warning: mention of suicide
Film screening dates: 27.11.2023 — 10.12.2023
Film screening dates: 27.11.2023 — 10.12.2023
Director
Tatiana Mazú González was born in Buenos Aires, 1989. She lives on the outskirts of the city among cats and plants, in what used to be her grandmother’s house. She’s a documentary-experimental director and visual artist. Left-wing and feminist activist who once wanted to be a biologist or geographer: today her imaginary explores the links between people and spaces, the microscopic and the immense, the personal and the political, the childish and the dark. Films, photographs, draws, designs, and sews.
Together with Joaquín Maito, she co-directed “The State of Things” (2012). Her short film “The International” (La Internacional, 2015) participated in 40 international festivals. Little Red Riding Hood (2019) is her first length feature film. “Río Turbio” (2020), her second film, has its World Premiere in the International Competition of FIDMarseille (Prix Georges de Beauregard 2020). She was part of Silbando Bembas, a militant film collective. Her films have been selected at FID Marseille, Mar del Plata International Film Fest, FICUNAM, Doc Lisboa, Festifreak, Transcinema, Cinélatino. Rencontres de Toulouse, Cámara Lúcida, FIDOCS, Antofacine, MIDBO, among others. She is co-editor together with Manuel Embalse of “Owner’s Portrait” by Joaquín Maito (Best Debut Film at IDFF Jihlava).
Together with Joaquín Maito, she co-directed “The State of Things” (2012). Her short film “The International” (La Internacional, 2015) participated in 40 international festivals. Little Red Riding Hood (2019) is her first length feature film. “Río Turbio” (2020), her second film, has its World Premiere in the International Competition of FIDMarseille (Prix Georges de Beauregard 2020). She was part of Silbando Bembas, a militant film collective. Her films have been selected at FID Marseille, Mar del Plata International Film Fest, FICUNAM, Doc Lisboa, Festifreak, Transcinema, Cinélatino. Rencontres de Toulouse, Cámara Lúcida, FIDOCS, Antofacine, MIDBO, among others. She is co-editor together with Manuel Embalse of “Owner’s Portrait” by Joaquín Maito (Best Debut Film at IDFF Jihlava).