#6 - Las Musidoras
This is Film! 2024 #6: Las Musidoras
In the last session of This is Film! Las Musidoras (Émilie Cauquy, Marién Gómez Rodríguez and Elodie Tamayo) discuss the legacy of French filmmaker Musidora, followed by a live performance adaptation of Musidora’s silent film La tierra de los toros (1924) with Veronica Vallecillo.
Musidora (1889-1957) was a well-known French film actress as well as a producer, screenplay writer and director. She directed a total of ten films, of which most are now lost. La tierra de los toros (1924), one of her few surviving films, was a formally free and experimental film, made as part live performance, part cinema. The film, starring Musidora and Antonio Cañero, has been entirely preserved, but any form of documentation or recording of the performance is lost.
Researchers and archivists Émilie Cauquy, Marién Gómez Rodríguez, and Elodie Tamayo will discuss Musidora’s legacy, followed by a live cinema presentation of La Tierra de Los Toros modelled on Musidora’s cinema performance with the dancer Veronica Vallecillo. This session will be moderated by Kate Saccone, PhD-researcher at the University of Amsterdam.
Programme
Live performance adaptation of La tierra de los toros (Musidora, ES 1924, 60’)
A performance by Émilie Cauquy, Marién Gómez Rodríguez, and Elodie Tamayo and dancer Veronica Vallecillo based on Musidora’s silent film La tierra de los toros, that she directed and starred in herself together with Antonio Cañero. The performers/researchers re-imagined Musidora’s original piece based on archival material, such as notebooks, letters, publications, and the original screenplay of the film. Combining this research with inspiration, the performance echoes the ghost-like presence of a whimsical, free-spirited Musidora, filmmaker and lover.
Guest: Émilie Cauquy
Émilie Cauquy is project leader manager for the HENRI platform, responsible for promoting the film collection at the Cinémathèque française, inventor of augmented screenings in the form of ciné-spectacles and guest programmer for the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna.
Guest: Marién Gómez
Marién Gómez is a researcher in film history, specializing in the silent era and the Spanish adventures of Musidora. She currently works at the Cinémathèque française's cultural action department.
Guest: Elodie Tamayo
Elodie Tamayo investigates the history of cinema and its archives. She is a lecturer in film studies at the ENS in Lyon and an editor at Cahiers du cinéma.
Guest: Veronica Vallecillo
Veronica Vallecillo is an atypical flamenco dancer and choreographer with a free and inventive style, somewhere between tradition and modernity.
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Production year
2024
Length
145 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
This is Film! 2024
This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is an annual public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage, with international guest speakers and film screenings.
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