April
20 & 21 - 6 PM. Q&A with the director Grant Gee
28 - 6 PM. Screening
May
5, 12 & 19 - 6PM. Screening

For more information and reservations, please contact auditorio@proa.org / +54 11 4104-1001

Press:

Download Press kit in English (pdf)

Ariel Magnus. Página 12 / Radar. 15.04.2012
Alejandro Lingenti. La Nación. 21.04.2012
Federico Lisica. Página 12. 21.04.2012
Juan Pablo Russo. Escribiendo Cine. April 2012
Quintín. Perfil / Cultura. 07.05.2012

Patience (After Sebald)
United Kingdom, 2011, 82 minutes
Filmed and Directed by Grant Gee
Edited by Jerry Chater, Grant Gee
Produced by Gareth Evans, Di Robson, Sarah Caddy

Featuring Tacita Dean / William Firebrace / Dan Gretton / Barbara Hui / Arthur Lubow / Robert Macfarlane / Christopher MacLehose / Jeremy Millar / Katie Mitchell / Rick Moody / Andrew Motion / Chris Petit / Adam Phillips / Iain Sinclair / Bill Swainson / Lise Patt / Marina Warner / Christopher Woodward

Synopsis
A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 – 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most  influential book, The Rings of Saturn.
The much anticipated new feature by  the Grierson Award-winning Director of Joy Division, Patience… is the first film about Sebald internationally, marking ten years since the writer’s untimely death, and with contributions from major writers, artists and film-makers.

Notes towards a film. By Grant Gee
W.G. Sebald has, in the ten years since his sudden death in a car crash (14.12.2001), begun to exert an almost uncanny influence over contemporary art and writing. He’s become one of those rarest of writers: the adjectival author, in the shortest possible time. ‘Sebaldian’ has entered the language. I wanted to find out why this is, and trace his influence through the zeitgeist.

Both my previous major long-form works – Radiohead’s Meeting People Is Easy and Joy Division – as well as the recent short film The Western Lands, examined iconic contemporary artists in the context of the landscapes they inhabited, respectively the ‘non-places’ of international touring, the post-industrial wreckage of late 1970s Manchester and the lethal cliff faces of the Orkney Islands. These artists could not be understood fully without an understanding of the landscapes and locations they occupied. The dialogue between personality and place is thus central to my own artistic investigations.

Rarely has the idea and importance of place been more prominent in culture and thought than it is at the moment. There are many reasons for this, not least the effect of globalization, with its spread of ‘sameness’ and the subsequent alienation and lack of belonging people feel. As things are erased, so they become even more significant.

This destruction of ‘place’ is a kind of catastrophe in our imaginative lives. It doesn’t have to take the form of explicit environmental or topographic change. Perhaps even more pernicious is the long-term psychological effect. Sebald’s body of work is profoundly aware of this and offers the richest statement I have come across about the importance of attention to place and the histories it holds and has made.

Properly to honour the associative nature of the book and the themes discussed, the ‘essay film’, a ‘genre’ employed to great effect by the likes of Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit, seems a very helpful and productive means to explore such material. Such a form allows for multiple tones and textures, essential when considering Sebald and place. It is also a personal form, not governed by pre-ordained structures and templates. I am extremely glad to have had the opportunity to work with this approach, and hope in a small way to have done justice, on film, to the remarkable work of this most important and influential writer.

Biography

Grant Gee is a prolific cinematographer and film-maker, best known for directing definitive studies of music and musicians. He has been Grammy-nominated twice, for Meeting People Is Easy – about Radiohead - in 2000 and Demon Days – about Gorillaz - in 2006.
His recent feature length work Joy Division premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival in 2007 and won the Sound and Vision award for ‘Best Music Film 2007’ at the CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen, and the Audience Awards for Best Film at the Gdansk film festival 2008 and ‘In-Edit’ festival in Barcelona 2008. It also won the prestigious Grierson Award 2008 for Best Cinema Documentary.
He also films and directs short, artists’ moving image works including City Symphony, 400 Anarchists and Mr. Fred Zentner’s. These have been shown internationally by the British Council, onedotzero and others. The most recent, The Western Lands, about climber and writer Jim Perrin’s climb of The Old Man of Hoy won best short film awards at the Banff and Vancouver film festivals.
He also shot, edited and made motion graphics for the acclaimed feature documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, for director Stephen Kijak in 2006.
Gee was born in 1964 in Plymouth. He studied Geography at the Universities of Oxford and Illinois. He has worked in film / video since 1990. He lives in Brighton with his wife and son.

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With the support of Tenaris - Organización Techint

Tuesday to Sunday, from 11AM to 7PM (every 90 minutes)

During the exhibition Air de Lyon, Proa’s Auditorium presents every days a video program curated by Victoria Noorthoorn. The list of artists includes François Bucher, Aurélien Froment, Christoph Keller, Tracey Rose, Alexander Schellow and Javier Téllez.

Aurélien Froment. La tectonique des plaques, 2011. Courtesy of the artists, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam and Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris. Co-produced Musée Departamental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart and Biennale de Lyon 2011

Tuesday / Thursday to Sunday: Program 1
Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000 (32 minutes)
Alexander Schellow. Ohne Titel (Fragment), 2011 (5 minutes)
François Bucher. El hombre que desapareció, 2008 (5 minutes)
Aurélien Froment. La tectonique desplaques, 2011 (15 minutes)
Javier Téllez. O rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010 (41 minutes)

Wednesday: Program 2
Tracey Rose. In The Castle Of My Skin, 2011 (249 minutes)
Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000 (32 minutes)
Alexander Schellow. Ohne Titel (Fragment), 2011 (5 minutes)
François Bucher. El hombre que desapareció, 2008 (5 minutes)
Aurélien Froment. La tectonique desplaques, 2011 (15 minutes)
Javier Téllez. O rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010 (41 minutes)

Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich

François Bucher. El hombre que desapareció, 2008
Duration: 4min 36sec. Video HD, color, sound. Collection of the artist

About the artist
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Aurélien Froment. La tectonique des plaques, 2011
Duration: 14min 25sec. Video HD, color, sound. With Judith Plas and Laurent Talon. Courtesy of the artists, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam and Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris. Co-produced Musée Departamental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart and Biennale de Lyon 2011

This film by Aurélien Froment documents an exhibition built on the same scale as its open-air setting. The two main characters traverse the countryside as though they were touring an exhibition: the universe has effectively become their gallery. Aurélien Froment’s fictional approach highlights behaviors, which are common in our reactions to both art works and landscapes, our tendency towards labeling the things we see and the time it takes us to properly appreciate them. About the artist
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Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000
Duration: 32min. Video DVD. Courtesy of the artists and Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin

From the very beginnings of film until the dismantling of its Film Institute, the Berlin Charité hospital produced approximately 1000 educational, medical, documentary and experimental scientific films. There is no cinematic footage of the Charité itself. There are scraps: fragments in the form of notes, articles, a few photos and the films that have survived. How can one tell a story that does not exist, that appears only intermittently in a context of images and documents full of gaps? About the artist
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Tracey Rose. In The Castle Of My Skin, 2011
Duration: 249min. Video color, sound. Creation 11th Biennale de Lyon. Collection of the artist

In residence in Feyzin as part of the Biennale de Lyon program, Tracey Rose creates a fictional cast featuring nearly thirty people. In what could be seen as a reality-show, the artist questions the assignment of individuals to compartmentalized cultural representations, according to a willfully xenophobic typology based on a chapter of Franz Fanon’s book Black Skin, white Masks, in which the author is terrorized by a small French boy who exclaimed upon seeing him: “Look, a Negro! Mama, see the Negro! I’m afraid!”. About the artist
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Alexander Schellow. Ohne Titel (fragment), 2011
Duration: 5min 21sec. Video HD, 16:9, b&w. Production Films de Force Majeure / Alexander Schellow. Courtesy of the artist

In his drawing practice, Schellow reconstructs from memory specific encounters seen in everyday urban settings several days, or even months, previously. At Air de Lyon, we present one of his most ambitious animation projects. Untitled (Fragment) is a work in progress based on several visits to a 96-year-old woman who lives at a clinic for Alzheimer’s patients in Berlin. In his studio the artist meticulously recreates the subtle movements of her face after-the-fact. Overall, Schellow’s work is the result of a combination of what remains of the seen and an obsessive attempt to recover what the consciousness shields from us, thus challenging the usual process of memory in which specific details sink into oblivion forever. About the artist
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Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010
Duration: 41min. Digital film to HD video transfer, color, stereo sound. Fundación Calouste Gulbenkian - CAM (Centre de Arte Moderna), Lisbon, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich

O Rinoceronte de Dürer was filmed entirely on location at the panopticon of the Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lisbon and made in collaboration with psychiatric patients of the outpatient’s clinic, who form the main cast of the film. Built in 1896 on the grounds of the largest Psychiatric Hospital in Lisbon, the panopticon was designed as a prison for the criminally insane, following the original plans of Jeremy Bentham.
The fragmentary narrative of O Rinoceronte de Dürer was written by the patients in a series of workshops conducted prior to the shooting of the film, where they imagined themselves as inhabitants of the former insane asylum and acted out fictional scenarios within their assigned cells. This reconstruction of the everyday life of a mental institution is complemented by voice-overs quoting texts such as Jeremy Bentham’s letter presenting the Panopticon, Plato’s Cave, and Kafka’s short story The Burrow. About the artist

Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000. Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin

COLLOQUIUMS
Scenes from the 80s. The early years
Proa launches Scenes from the 80s. The early years, a catalog including texts by curator Ana María Battistozzi and scholars Roberto Amigo and Lucas Fragasso. Along with the book presentation, a series of conferences and seminars will be organized in order to contribute with the study on a key period of art scene in Buenos Aires.

Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil - Argentina
Coordinators: Paulo Herkenhoff y Rodrigo Alonso
International scholars will present their latest developments in their research on the cultural relationship between both countries during the 60s and the 70s, a central topic in the history of Latin American art.

John Cage. 100 Years
Coordinator: Martín Bauer
In the centenary of his birth, Proa organizes special events, conferences and presentations coordinated by Martín Bauer. A unique tribute to the artist, composer and essayist John Cage, a central figure in 20th Century music.

Alberto Giacometti
Coordinator: Véronique Wiesinger
The most relevant scholars and specialists on Giacometti’s work will present their recent researchs in dialogue with local experts. A necessary meeting within the framework of a unique exhibition to be presented at Proa on October 2012.

CINEMA
February / December
Guest programmers
Two relevant Argentine filmmakers are in charge of 2012 cinema program. Each Saturday, they present the films, reflecting and discussing the works selected.
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April
BAFICI – XIV Edition
Proa hosts the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, one of the most significant cultural events in the city, with screenings and dialogues with international filmmakers.
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THEATRE
Compañía de Funciones Patrióticas
The theater company directed by actor and playwright Martín Seijo presents new productions, always with a unique performance during holidays or national days. As in 2010 and 2011, the company updates and adapts texts of the Argentine repertoire, discussing the national values, political traditions and economic history of the country.

MUSIC
November
Contemporary Music Concerts - 16th Edition (Teatro San Martín)
A new season of the prestigious festival directed by Martín Bauer will be hosted at Proa. Renowned international musicians present their works in the Auditorium.
John Cage. 100 Years

LITERATURE
September
International Festival of Literature of Buenos Aires
In this edition, Proa invites one of the most personal and compelling voices of contemporary literature in Latin America.
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FNPI + Proa
For over ten years, Proa co-organizes cultural journalism workshops with the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation (FNPI), inviting the most relevant writers and journalists from the region.
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PROA TV
Proa’s official YouTube channel presents exclusive contents such as guided visits by the curators, interviews and audiovisual documentation.
youtube.com/proawebtv

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More information:
2012 Complete Program (PDF)
2012 Exhibitions

Only 4 screenings
Saturdays, September 17 & 24 / October, 1 & 8

Admission: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu: $25
Videograms of a Revolution: $15
Information and revervations: auditorio@proa.org / (011) 4104-1000/1001

"The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu". Dir. Andrei Ujica. Romania, 2010. 180'

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU
Original title Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
Romania, 2010. 180 min. Color - B&N
Director / Writer Andrei Ujica
Film Editing Daba Bunescu
Produced by Velvet Moraru
Icon Production
www.the-autobiography.com

VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION
Original title Videogramme einer Revolution
Germany, 1992 106 min. Color - B&N
Directors / Writers Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica
Film Editing Egon Bunne
Produced by Harun Farocki
Harun Farucki Filmproduktion, Bremer Institut Film / Fernsehen Produktionsgesellschaft
Narrator Thomas Schultz

"Videograms of a Revolution". Dir. Harun Farocki/Andrei Ujica. Germany, 1992. 106'

Press:
Ciclo Alan Pauls en Fundación Proa. Carolina Quintana. 18.09.2011
El arte de dejar hablar y escuchar al dictador. Por María Luján Picabea. Revista Ñ. 16.09.2011
La única verdad que mostraba Ceausescu. Por Paraná Sendrós. Ámbito Financiero. 16.09.2011
Se estrena en PROA “Autobiografía de Nicolae Ceausescu”. Escribiendo Cine. 16.09.2011
Ciclo de Alan Pauls en Fundación Proa. Por Gabriela Schevach. Juanele. 15.09.2011
Proa Cine. Cuisine & Vins. 15.09.2011
Autobiografía de Nicolae Ceausescu de Andrei Ujica - Ciclo Alan Pauls. Arte en la red. 14.09.2011
Ciclo Andrei Ujica en Proa Cine. Haciendo Cine. 14.09.2011
Proa Cine presenta “Autobiografía de Nicolae Ceausescu” y “Videogramas de una revolución”. Pandorama. 14.09.2011
Proa Cine. Autobiografía de Nicolae Ceausescu y Videogramas de una revolución. Ramona Web. 13.09.2011
Ceausescu en PROA. Por Horacio Bernárdez. La espada vengadora. 12.09.2011
Ascenso y caída del imperio rumano. Por Diego Rojas. Página 12 / Radar. 11.09.2011
Proyectan en Proa dos documentales del rumano Andrei Ujica. Agencia Télam / Yahoo! Noticias / Terra Noticias. 09.09.2011
Proyectan en Proa dos documentales del rumano Andrei Ujica. El Comercial (diario de Formosa, Chaco). 09.09.2011
Ciclo Alan Pauls: Nicolae Ceausescu X 2. Puesta en Escena .com.ar. 09.09.2011
Andrei Ujica por dos. Otros Cines. Septiembre 2011

"The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu". Dir. Andrei Ujica. Romania, 2010. 180'

Every Saturday until October 8, the critic and writer Alan Pauls presents The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, directed by Andrei Ujica, and Videograms of a Revolution, directed by Ujica and Harun Farocki.

On the occasion of Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed exhibition, Proa’s Auditorium presents “Chère Louise”, by Brigitte Cornand. In this intimate film-portrait the artist contunally returns to her major themes: her ever-present childhood, her passion for tapestry and rivers, her deep attachment to music and the poetical dimension of her visual and written oeuvre”.

Chère Louise
Director: Brigitte Cornand
Les Films du Siamois
France, 1995
Duration: 50’
Languages: French / English Subtitles
SCREENINGS: Tuesdays & Sundays, 6PM

More information: http://www.frenchculture.org/spip.php?article1442

Download the audio guide

Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed exhibition audio guide by Philip Larratt-Smith available for download for mp3 player or mobile phone.

For the first time, Fundación Proa participates in BAFICI - Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival. In its 13th edition, premieres in Argentina the documentary film Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948/2009), the greatest courtroom drama of all time - the 1945 Nuremberg trial of top Nazi war criminals.

Sandra Schulberg and Josh Waletzky have masterfully restored this historic movie (after U.S. officials suppressed the film and the negative and soundtrack were lost or destroyed), originally directed by Schulberg’s father and commissioned by Pare Lorentz.  The negative was struck from the best quality extant print, borrowed from the German National Film  Archive, and not one picture frame was removed or changed in the restoration. The restoration team also reconstructed the musical score and Liev Schreiber re-recorded the narration.

The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (Nov 20, 1945 – Oct 1, 1946), the first major trial to  prosecute crimes against humanity, addressed questions of guilt and complicity in unimaginable atrocities. The film captures the defendants in their own words, admitting only to “certain excesses” and “abuses.”  Intended as an historical endpoint, an object lesson for future generations, Nuremberg has since become, tragically, a prototype for tribunals convened to prosecute genocides around the world.

NUREMBERG (1948/2009, 78 mins.)
Original version Written & Directed by Stuart Schulberg. Editor: Joseph Zigman. Producers: Stuart Schulberg & Pare Lorentz. Production Supervisor: Eric Pommer, U.S. Office of Military Government. Musical Score: Hans-Otto Borgmann. Restoration by Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky.  Executive Producer: Leon Constantiner. Narrator: Liev Schreiber. Senior Archival Researcher: Elisabeth Hartjens. Score Reconstruction: John Califra. A production of Schulberg Productions and Metropolis Productions. USA. In English & German with English subtitles.

PRESS:
Entrevista a Sandra Schulberg, hija del realizador de Nuremberg. El Intransigente. 31.05.2011
Sandra Schulberg: “La película combate el negacionismo”. Revista Veintitrés. 18.05.2011
El juicio en Nüremberg. Cine Buho. 05.05.2011
Sin escenas de Justicia en la sociedad del espectáculo. Clarín. 04.05.2011
La memoria y la propaganda. Revista Noticias. 22.04.11
Los crímenes nazis en un tribunal histórico. Clarín. 18.04.2011
Documental sobre el juicio de Nuremberg revive horror nazi. El Día (La Plata). 18.04.2011
Nüremberg: Its Lesson for Today. Reseñas de cine y vida (Blog). 17.04.2011
Un documental sobre el juicio de Nuremberg revive el horror nazi. Terra Colombia; La Segunda (Santiago, Chile); Emol (Santiago, Chile); Información (Alicante); La Nueva España; La Opinión A Coruña; Info7 (México); Univisión (EEUU); Yahoo! En Español; Levante EMV; Diario de Ibiza; Faro de Vigo; Noticiero Legal; Terra España; Periódico 7 Días (Rep. Dominicana); La Opinión de Granada; Caracol Radio (Colombia); Diario de Mallorca; Miami Diario; Canarias 7; Informativos Telecino (España); La Opinión de Zamora; El Economista (España); La Información; Pasito; Orange (España); Panamá América; 20 Minutos (España). 15.04.2011
Mostrar lo indecible: el impactante filme sobre el juicio de Nüremberg. Clarín. 12.04.2011
Tras 62 años de censura, llega la película del Juicio de Nuremberg. Tiempo Argentino. 12.04.2011
“Nüremberg” y Sandra Schulberg en Telenoche. ProaTV. 11.04.2011
Un documento para la historia. Página 12. 09.04.2011
BAFICI “Nüremberg”. “Nüremberg”- Un documento para la historia. DIsonancias Blog. 09.04.2011
BAFICI “Nüremberg”. Leedor. 09.04.2011
El juicio en Nüremberg, la historia detrás de la película. Revista Ñ. 08.04.2011

Thursday, January 20. From 2 to 8PM
Limited capacity. For registration: send a CV and a paragraph-long statement of intent, by e-mail to: auditorio@proa.org

Fabrice Gygy, Lang/Baumann, Josep-Maria Martín and Gianni Motti, some of the most distinguished artist of the international contemporary art scene, participate in a public encounter on Thursday January 20 at Proa’ s Auditorium. Most of these artist, will visit Buenos Aires for the first time in occasion of Of Bridges & Borders, the exhibition who will open next Saturday January 22.

The artists will dialogue with Sigismond de Vajay, exhibition curator, on the processes of work production and the diverse formats they use: installation, sculpture and minimal objects, performances, site-specific and multidisciplinary projects. Beyond the diverse subjects they tackle, their non-traditional processes break from the idea of the artist trapped in his studio.

Of Bridges & Borders is an art project who started with an homonymous publication that assembled important artists, musicians, architects and intellectuals from 17 different countries, in order to account for –in words of de Vajay, curator for the exhibition and editor of the publication- “a global and contemporary memory”. In this new stage, Of Bridges & Borders adopts the form of an itinerant exhibition. Its first exhibition will take place at Proa from January 22. Besides Gygi, Lang/Baumann, Martín y Motti, the exhibition will also present artists Thomas Hirschhorn, Carlos Garaicoa, John Bock and Jorge Macchi.

With the support of:
Swiss Arts Council PROHELVETIA
Swiss Embassy in Argentina

LAST CONCERTS. Saturday December 11/18 – 8PM.

Information: auditorio@proa.org / (011) 4104-1001
Admission: $30

“Each performance is a celebration” says Beatriz Pichi Malen, one of the most distinguished voices of Mapuche music, to describe her shows. “That is why” she continues “I sing stories: I narrate how I got to singing, how I snatched it. I talk about what the wind from Patagonia means to us, in that strength, hitting the mounts and bringing rocks together, is where the wind chant appears”.

Next Saturday December 11, at 8PM, Pichi Malen will perform at Proa’s Auditorium in her third of four exclusive concerts programmed for this year. The last show will be on Saturday December 18.

Nearly deprived of technological assistance, the show she will give at Proa reveals different Mapuche compositions: sacred, profane and popular chants and songs of sorrow and pain, all evoking the symbols of this culture. Pichi Malen accompanies her songs with brief explanations and stories in a captivating, almost ritual, concert that reveals the strength and subtleness of traditional Mapuche music.

Descendant of cacique Ignacio Coliqueo, Pichi Malen is devoted to the search and diffusion of her ancestors’ culture, which she accomplishes through these recitals, recordings and editions of Mapuche songbooks.

In her extensive artistic career, she has had several presentations in Latin American European and North American cities. She edited two records and her songs are included in important international ethnic music compilations. In 2002, she performed a series of memorable concerts at Fundación Proa.

“I am a messenger of the tuned word. Singing is what drives me; it is a Mapuche taught, because, in our culture, all beings are destined for something. Some of us can find what we came for in our lifetime, some of us can’t and we transit life without ever having blossomed. The manchi –healers- told me that singing was what brought me to this world.”

+ info: http://www.pichimalen.com/