Tuesday of video / [Conflict] is not he same as [Abuse]

Session by Hamaca for the Santa Mònica Video Tuesdays.

Screening of El jurado by Virginia García del Pino and conversation with Laura Macaya

In Virginia García del Pino’s The jury, the truth is just a group of pixels, the result of a digital zoom on blurred faces. The camera that films the members of a popular jury, facing a murder trial, is as lost as they are in the labyrinth of evidence, images and testimonies, incapable of filming anything but its own decomposition. Virginia García del Pino is a non-fiction filmmaker and project director of the Master’s in Creative Documentary Filmmaking at the UAB. Her videos arise from an attempt to understand the world from a less painful point of view, gravitating around the social conventions of representation, and it is surely in this attempt at understanding that she tends to opt for a forceful formal simplicity.