Organizers: NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo (AECID), Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the Visions/Panawin Film Series.
Description:
This program is part of a series of activities organized in conjunction with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Magellan, Marilyn, Mickey & Fr. Dámaso. 500 Years of Conquistador RockStars by Kidlat Tahimik. October 28, 2021- March 6, 2022/Retiro Park, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
The director, actor, performer, and artist Kidlat Tahimik, which means “Silent Lightning” in Tagalog, is a key figure of the so-called ‘slow cinema’ movement, as well as an undisputed pioneer of Filipino independent film. Tahimik’s self-reflexive, and often satirical filmography and intermedia artistic practice takes the form of an improvisational back and forth, whereby artworks reference the storytelling in his films and the latter become open narratives under constant revision. Tahimik’s installations and films present us with a critical entanglement between the personal, Filipino traditions and knowledge, and the country’s violent colonial legacies. Something Tahimik himself has described as cinema’s ‘third way,’ a critical standpoint against capitalism’s investment in the individual in favor of a collective and shared struggle of the colonized. Tahimik has been honored with numerous awards at international film festivals, most notably the International Critics’ Prize at Berlinale (1977) and, more recently, the Prince Claus Laureate Award (2018). At the 2019 Sharjah Biennial, he presented Ang Ma-bagyong Sabungan ng 2 Bathala ng Hangin, A Stormy Clash Between 2 Goddesses of the Winds (WW III – the Protracted Kultur War) to great critical acclaim. Among others, his filmography includes Perfumed Nightmare (1977), Turumba (1983), and BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment (Redux III, 2015; Redux VI, 2017).
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