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We Were No Desert

Nunca fuimos un desierto

MODES

North American Premiere

Taking an installation by Argentine textilsts Chiachio & Giannone as a point of departure, director Agustina Comedi (Playback, MODES ‘19) stages a queered rendition of a strict national folk dance, the “Pericón.” This new choreography opposes its traditional steps and resists the inherent ideology of conquest baked into the notion of ‘homeland’.

 

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Directors
Credits
Country of Origin

Argentina

Year

2024

Language

In Spanish with English subtitles

Film Contact
18+
12 min
Experimental & Avant Garde Human Rights & Social Justice LGBTQIA2S+ Shorts Women Directors
PAN Contenidos

Credits & Director

Producer

Sandra Rojas

Screenwriter

Agustina Comedi

Cinematography

Benjamín Ellenberger

Editor

Ezequiel Salinas

Original Music

Violeta García

Agustina Comedi headshot; We Were No Desert director

Agustina Comedi

Agustina Comedi (1986, Argentina). Scriptwriter and filmmaker. She holds a degree in Literature. In 2017, her debut film Silence is a Falling Body (2017) premiered at IDFA. Her short film, Playback (2019) was part of the Berlinale Shorts Competition in 2020, where it won the Teddy Award. It was also awarded Best Short Film in the Mar del Plata Film Festival and Entrevues Belfort. She is currently working on her second and third films.

Photo by Catalina Bartolomé

 

Chiachio & Giannone joint headshot; We Were No Desert directors

Chiachio & Giannone

Chiachio & Giannone are Argentine visual artists. Leo Chiachio (1969, Buenos Aires) and Daniel Giannone (1964, Córdoba). Their work translates the knowledge of painting into the field of textile arts and it is framed within political debates about new family models and LGBTQ+ issues. Their work has been part of national and international exhibitions. Among these, The Emilio Caraffa Fine Arts Museum (Córdoba, 2014), the Museum of Art and Design (NY, 2014), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2015), Cité International de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson (2016) MOLAA, California (2019) and Antre Peaux, Bourges (2022) among others.

 

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