CURTOCIRCUÍTO 2022 IN THE CGAC
Once again, this year the CGAC is collaborating with the 19th edition of the international film festival Curtocircuíto.
The festival was launched in Santiago de Compostela in 2003 as a city council initiative, with the aim of enhancing film-making in the genre of the short film.
Eighteen editions later, Curtocircuíto is a renowned festival throughout the country, working in direct contact with other European festivals. Films from around the world compete in the official section, and a wide variety of lengths and formats with contemporaneity and risk always at their heart can be seen in the sections that run in parallel with the official section. The Curtocircuíto festival is committed to its time, supporting creators through training and promoting the participation of citizens in its activities. Over and above being a film festival, with its parallel activities and concerts, Curtocircuíto is a recreational and cultural meeting point.
ACTIVITY IN THE CGAC: TODD SOLONZD MEETS THE PUBLIC
Watching a Todd Solondz film involves immersing oneself in an underworld of sombre characters: misfit misanthropes, social pariahs and outer-city losers. From his debut, with Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), to Wiener-Dog (2018), and including the most sordid, brought together for Happiness (1998), his casts have contained a line-up of legendary actors and actresses such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Danny DeVito, John Goodman or Heather Matarazzo, who wandered through his films up and down the New Jersey wastelands, a kind of endless suburb that knows no hope.
As part of the meeting with Solondz, we will recuperate a classic from our programmes, the section Signed By, where we invite important film-makers to act as festival programmers and sign a programme that includes the films that have been decisive in their careers.
In this edition we are also providing a double bill which will include, on the one hand, the screening of an ensemble of films essential to him, among them works by Kenneth Anger, Paul Morrisey, Kuchar Bros., Russ Meyer or Paul Bartel and, on the other, an online meeting lasting an hour and a half where we will be able to chat with the film-maker about this choice and other themes relating to his work. The session will be divided up into two parts, with a 10-minute break between each part.
1st session
4.00 p.m. Signed by Todd Solondz
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963). Duration: 28 min
The Secret Cinema (Paul Bartel) Duration: 30 min
Two (Satyajit Ray, 1965) Duration: 12 min
Smack in the Middle, episode 2 of the first season of the TV series Batman (Robert Butler, 1966). Duration: 8 min
Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970). Duration: 4 min 20 s
Heat (Paul Morrissey, 1972). Duration: 1 min 26 s
The Pop Art Affair, episode 6 of the third season of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (George Waggner, 1966). Duration: 8 min
She-Devils on Wheels (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1968). Duration: 5 min
2nd session
5.30 p.m. Todd Solondz meets the public
Video-conference