Screening (14 min) and discussion (30 min)
MISS UNIVERSO is a short film between video art and video essay that reflects on violence, work and beauty from the concept of eroticism in Georges Bataille from a feminist, universal and timeless perspective, through archive images and an interview with a miss who declares that he prefers sex with love to sex without love. The piece is based on one of the film’s fifteen cinematic vignettes Masculin, Féminin (1966) by Jean-Luc Godard and corresponds to the interview that the protagonist, Paul, son of Marxism, does to Elsa, Mademoiselle 19 years old, a girl who doesn’t identify with the figure of the intellectual or the revolutionary, who is simply happy with all the advantages that being chosen “the most beautiful” has provided her: fame, travel, luxuries.
This piece has been produced by Temporada Alta.
The activity is part of the Panoràmic festival in collaboration with La Capella within the Concèntric program.
Juana Dolores
El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1992. Is an actress, playwright and stage director, as well as a poet and video artist. All his work is based on the tension between ideologies and beauty.
Has published Bijuteria (56th edition of the Amadeu Oller Catalan poetry prize, 2020, Edicions Galerada). In video art and video essay she works from archive images as can be seen in the pieces Limpieza (2020), Santa Barbara (2020) and Miss Universo (2021). In theatre she has written, performed and directed #JUANA DOLORES# *massa diva per a un moviment assembleari* (2019-2020, Antic Teatre) and *Hit Me if I’m Pretty* (2022, Antic Teatre).
Panoràmic
This festival explores the relationship between film, photography and new forms of images, and promotes and encourages the search for new languages and audiovisual narratives.
It was created with the aim of providing a critical pedagogy of the image aimed at audiences that are increasingly immersed in visual environments and, therefore, with a desire to provide a service.
