Matthew Lax

Matthew Lax

Film Festival Reports

CROSSROADS 2020: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS

By Mónica Delgado

In these days of health crisis, Crossroads film festival, organized by San Francisco Cinematheque, offers nine programs for free online viewing, grouped according to different thematic criteria or according to certain expressive motives, although many of them were raised to confront or resignify some common topics in this type of curatorship. This edition, led by filmmaker Steve Polta, promotes in its programs, beyond the viewings themselves, strategies of relation, correspondences or even absences.

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CROSSROADS 2020.PROGRAMA 8:ASUNTOS DESCONOCIDOS

Por Mónica Delgado

En el octavo programa, denominado Unknown subjects, se propone a los “no lugares” como un hilo conductor, sin embargo este concepto adquiere diversos matices, incluso se podría decir que se mueve en el ámbito de su paradoja, en la imposibilidad de aquello que Zygmung Bauman define en Modernidad Líquida, a partir de lo propuesto por Marc Augé, como “un espacio despojado de las expresiones simbólicas de la identidad, las relaciones y la historia”.

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