Draft:Alberte Pagán

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Alberte Pagán
Alberte Pagán in his film A Pedra do Lobo (2010)
Born1965 (age 58–59)
O Carballiño, Spain
Occupation(s)writer and filmmaker
Known forExperimental film
Notable workBs. As., Tanyaradzwa, Eclipse, Percorridos por unha teoría do desexo

Alberte Pagán, born in O Carballiño in 1965,[1] is a Galician filmmaker and writer.

Film criticism[edit]

Alberte Pagán is a recognized theorist and researcher.[2] He has widely published articles and books on experimental cinema. His Introducción aos clásicos do cinema experimental was published in 1999 by the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. He authored Imaxes do soño en liberdade. O cinema de Eugenio Granell, a monograph on the film work of surrealist painter Eugenio Granell. In 2014 he published Andy Warhol, a "complete and rigorous" monograph which vindicates the materiality of the artist's films.[3] He has collected his in-depth interviews with Peter Kubelka, Malcolm Le Grice, Ken Jacobs, Taka Iimura, Phil Hoffman, and Bill Brand in Emotional Materials / Personal Processes. Six Interviews with Experimental Filmmakers.

Filmmaking[edit]

Bs. As.[edit]

Alberte Pagán is a key figure among Galician filmmakers.[4] His films have a strong political bent,[5] but are also concerned with "signifier-signified explorations" and "seriality, metanarration, hybridization of materials and subversion of codes",[6] as in Pó de estrelas (2007) or in the films from his series "Surfaces" and "Film Studies". The whole of his work can be read as a "manual of resistance", from agit-prop to the deconstruction of inherited codes.[7] The political stand of Urgent Film for Palestine (2012) is rooted in the anticolonialism of films like Afrique 50 (René Vautier, 1950).[4]

He has filmed in Nicaragua (Os waslala, 2005), Western Sahara (Asahra hurratun!, 2009), Zimbabwe (Tanyaradzwa, 2009) and Colombia (A realidade, 2012), but has also reflected on the political problems of Galicia as in Faustino 1936 (2010) and A quem se lhe conte... (2011), which deals with the environmental disaster produced on the Galician coast by the oil spill from the Prestige tanker.[8]

His first film to receive recognition was the minimalist and conceptual[9] Bs. As. (2006), awarded at the Play-Doc Film Festival[10] and winner of the Román Gubern Film-Essay Award.[11] Bs. As., modelled after Chantal Akerman's News from Home,[2] is "a forceful and, at times, enigmatic work", a collage of past and present, of Europe and America, of documentary and experimentalism,[12] in which Pagán recovers the oral history of his family, broken apart by emigration.[13] The film intertwines family progression with political history.[14] Its final 14-minute-long tracking shot in Buenos Aires metro has been interpreted as a "descent into the hell [...] of identity".[15]

Bs. As.

Bs. As. is the forerunner of the New Galician Cinema (NGC).[16][17][18] Its dual composition, which would be retaken in other NGC films like Todos vós sodes capitáns (Oliver Laxe, 2010) and Costa da Morte (Lois Patiño, 2013), also helped shape Xurxo Chirro's Vikingland (2011).[19] The film turned Pagán into a reference and a pioneer[20] of the NGC. As Martínez writes, "without any doubt, Alberte Pagán embodies the figure of the patriarch of this group of creators."[21]

Other films[edit]

His short Eclipse (2010) was one "of the most emblematic films of the NGC".[22] His three-hour-long, double screen Tanyaradwa, filmed in Zimbabwe, was defined as "antiethnographic", so as to avoid any temptation of an orientalist reading.[23] Tanyaradzwa, influenced by Andy Warhol's cinema, opts for "disintermediation" and direct communication with the audience, outside of commercial modes of production and established distribution circuits.[24] Its double screen, which removes narrative causality,[25] is also a materialist device that serves to defuse emotion, as in the sequence where, on one screen, the actor and co-author Tanyaradzwa recounts parental abuse, whereas on the other she laughs and talks inconsequentially while smoking weed.[24] In the film, the protagonist is not the object of the camera, but rather a subject in possession of a discourse that challenges our ethnographic gaze.[26]

Tanyaradzwa

Uluru, winner of the Galiza Award in the Curtocircuito International Film Festival,[27] connects with the cosmopolitan vocation of the New Galician Cinema, but can also be read as a vindication of the right to self-determination of both the Australian aboriginal peoples and those of Galicia.[28]

Walsed (2014), an interpretation of Eugene Deslaw's Visión fantástica (1957), inaugurated the series "film studies",[29] in which Pagán uses found footage to deconstruct the original films and subvert their meanings. But the found footage Pagán reuses in Walsed, as in Quim.com (2014) and Frank (2015), is already constructed from previous found footage, hence we can call these films "third generation" pieces.[30]

Also a found footage film, but made outside the "film studies" series, is A mosca (2017), a brief film made by cutting up every single frame of an anonymous trailer and randomly reordering them. A mosca proves "the impossibility of replicating what has disintegrated".[31]

Literary Works[edit]

Alberte Pagán has translated the first two chapters of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake[32] and the first and last sections of Andy Warhol's novel a[33] into Galician.

He has published the poetry book Prosopagnosia (2013) and the novels Percorridos por unha teoría do desexo (2015) and Jalundes (2022). Percorridos was heralded by critic literary Isaac Lourido as one of the ten best Galician books of the previous decade.[34]

Works[edit]

Filmography[edit]

  • Os Waslala (2005)
  • Bs. As. (2006)
  • Pó de estrelas (2007)
  • A soluçom é o socialismo (2008)
  • Tanyaradzwa (2009)
  • Asahra hurratun! (2009)
  • Puílha 17 janeiro 2010 15:33h (2010)
  • Eclipse (2010)
  • A Pedra do Lobo (2010)
  • Faustino 1936 (2010)
  • Outrasvozes (2011)
  • A quem se lhe conte... (2011)
  • Película urgente por Palestina (2012)
  • A realidade (2012)
  • Walsed (2014)
  • Superfícies – Forgoselo (granito) (2014)
  • Quim.com (2014)
  • Frank (2015)
  • Superfícies – Peter (tubo) (2015)
  • Konfrontationen 2014 (2015)
  • A Fundamental Error (2016)
  • τεμενος³ (2017)
  • Flora e fauna (shot on sight) (2017)
  • A mosca (2017)
  • Uluru (2018)
  • O caruncho (2018)
  • τέχνη (2019)
  • 6x9 (2019)
  • Oplezir (2020)
  • Dolores (2021)
  • Elefante (2022)
  • Bronwyn (2023)
  • Tristes tropiques (2023)

Literary works[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

  • Introdución aos clásicos do cinema experimental (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 1999). (in Galician and Spanish) ISBN 84-453-2339-3
  • A voz do trevón. Unha aproximación a Finnegans Wake (Laiovento, 2000). (in Galician) ISBN 84-89896-66-6
  • Imaxes do soño en liberdade: o cinema de Eugenio Granell (Xunta de Galicia, 2003). (in Galician) ISBN 978-84-453-3478-2
  • "Imágenes del sueño en libertad: Pulsaciones poéticas en el cine de Eugenio Granell". Litoral. La poesía del cine (Diputación Provincial de Málaga, 2003). (in Spanish) ISBN 0212-4378-235
  • “Cinema Underground estadounidense”, in Cueto, Roberto and Weinrichter, Antonio (2004). Dentro y fuera de Hollywood. La tradición independiente en el cine americano. Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón. (in Spanish) ISBN 84-482-3896-6
  • “Residuos experimentales en Arrebato”, in Cueto, Roberto (2006). Arrebato... 25 años. Filmoteca de Valencia. (in Spanish) ISBN 84-482-4308-0
  • "O ballets mecánicos de Eugenio Granell, cineasta experimental". Congreso Interdisciplinar Eugenio Ganell. Actas (Fundación Eugenio Granell, 2007). (in Galician, Spanish and English) ISBN 978-84-89440-45-6
  • A mirada impasíbel (Edicións Positivas, 2007). (in Galician) ISBN 978-84-87783-89-0
  • "Eu vou ser como a toupeira ou Para que serve o cinema?", in Non conciliados. Argumentos para a resistencia cultural (Cineclube de Compostela, 2010). (in Galician) ISBN 978-84-614-0937-2
  • A mirada inqueda (Edicións Positivas, 2013). (in Galician) ISBN 978-84-939812-9-7
  • "Arqueologías cinematográficas". Eugenio Granell e o cine. Unha película de vinte minutos (Xunta de Galicia, 2013). (in Galician and English) ISBN 978-84-453-5074-4
  • Andy Warhol (Cátedra, 2014). (in Spanish) ISBN 978-84-376-3227-8
  • "Formas del cine-poema (Los caminos de la poesía en el cine)", in Oter, Jorge and Zunzunegui, Santos. Ensayos de poética. Miradas sobre el contacto entre el cine y la poesía (2019). Universidad del País Vasco. (in Spanish) ISBN 978-84-9082-833-5
  • Emotional Materials / Personal Processes. Six Interviews with Experimental Filmmakers (Stereo Editions, 2022).

Sound art[edit]

  • A música da morte (sound sculptures, 1996-2010)
  • A Pedra do Lobo [OST] (Urro/Amaro Ferreiroa, 2013)
  • Frank (2016)[35]

Awards and recognitions[edit]

  • 2007: Bs. As.: Best Galician Film at Play-Doc film Festival
  • 2007: Bs. As.: Winner of the Román Gubern Film-Essay Award
  • 2010: Tanyaradzwa: Best Galician Film at the Play-Doc Film Festival
  • 2010: A Pedra do Lobo: Recipient of a subsidy for film creation by Xunta de Galicia
  • 2011: A quem se lhe conte...: Recipient of a subsidy for film creation by Xunta de Galicia
  • 2016: A Fundamental Error: CAMIRA Jury Special Mention at Curtocircuito Film Festival
  • 2016: Galician Critics Award (career award)[36]
  • 2018: Uluru: Best Galician Film at Curtocircuito Film Festival
  • 2021: Honorific Mention (Festival Primavera do Cine) (career award)[37]
  • 2021: Cineuropa Award (career award)[38][39]
  • 2022: Elefante: Special Mention at Curtocircuito Film Festival
  • 2022: Elefante: Jury Award at Intersección Film Festival
  • 2022: Elefante: A COLECTIVA Award at Intersección Film Festival

References[edit]

  • Smith, Paul Julian (2012). "Óperas primas: el caso del documental en México y España (Eugenio Polgovsky, Los herederos, México 2008 y Alberte Pagán, Tanyaradzwa, España/Galicia, 2009)". Berthier, Nancy; Fernández, Álvaro A. Ópera prima en el cine documental iberoamericano (1990-2010). Universidad de Guadalajara. ISBN 978-607-450-618-1
  • Martínez Martínez, María Isabel (2015), O cine de non ficción no Novo Cinema Galego (2006-2012): Conceptualización, contextos e singularidades, PhD, Universidade De Vigo.
  • Villarmea Álvarez, Iván (2016). "Transnational Identities in Galician Documentary Film: Alberte Pagán's Bs. As. and Xurxo Chirro's Vikingland". Oliete-Aldea, Elena; Oria, Beatriz, and Tarancón, Juan A. Global Genres, Local Films. The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Film. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-5013-0298-5
  • Ledo Andión, Margarita (ed.) (2017), Para unha historia do cinema en lingua galega. [1] Marcas na paisaxe, Editorial Galaxia, ISBN 978-84-9151-172-4
  • Ledo Andión, Margarita (ed.) (2019), Para unha historia do cinema en lingua galega. [2] A foresta e as árbores, Editorial Galaxia, ISBN 978-84-9151-335-3
  • Ledo Andión, Margarita (ed.) (2020), Para unha historia do cinema en lingua galega. [3] De illas e sereas, Editorial Galaxia, ISBN 978-84-9151-488-6
  • Nogueira, Xosé (ed.) (2021), Para unha historia do cinema en lingua galega. [4] Lume na periferia, Editorial Galaxia, ISBN 978-84-9151-766-5
  • Torreiro, Casimiro; Alvarado, Alejandro (ed.) (2023), El documental en España. Historia, Estética e identidad, Cátedra, ISBN 978-84-376-4572-8

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Sande, José Manuel. "Sinais: Alberte Pagán". (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico (in Galician).
  2. ^ a b Villarmea 2016, p. 236.
  3. ^ Lombardo, Manuel J. (April 20, 2014). "La materia recobrada: Andy Warhol. Alberte Pagán". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish).
  4. ^ a b Delgado, Mónica (March 30, 2013). "De Alberte Pagán a Alberto Gracia: cine gallego, un aire de renovación". Desistfilm.
  5. ^ Martínez 2015, p. 213.
  6. ^ Sande, José Manuel (December 2013). "Otros estrenos: A realidade (Alberte Pagán)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, p. 48.
  7. ^ Xestoso, Manuel. "Alberte Pagán. Cine desde as marxes." Sermos Galiza, November 11, 2021. p. 11. "O conxunto das súas películas é case un manual de resistencias que abrangue desde o agit-prop máis urxente (Película urgente por Palestina) até o desvelamento do discurso sistémico a través da súa deconstrucción (Frank)."
  8. ^ Villarmea, Iván. "Políticas de representación no novo cinema galego. Do modelo Zeitun á estética da resistencia". Nogueira 2021, pp. 100-101.
  9. ^ Castro de Paz, José Luis; Cerdán de los Arcos, Josetxo, "Razonables huellas documentales (2000-2006). Un variado, fértil y alentador panorama”. Rodríguez, Hilario J. (2006). Miradas para un nuevo milenio. Fragmentos para una historia futura del cine español, Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares. ISBN 84-87153-87-9
  10. ^ "Pagán, Alberte". Experimental Cinema. 26 May 2015.
  11. ^ "Alberte Pagán - Bs. As. - Andy Warhol". Visionary Film. 3 May 2007.
  12. ^ Oroz, Elena (March 2, 2007). "Bs. As". Blogs&Docs (in Spanish).
  13. ^ Rams, Maribel (March 2018). "Documental autoetnográfico de posmemoria. Una aproximaciónal al pasado franquista desde la perspectiva de género". Scholar Works UMass Amherst (in Spanish). University of Massachusetts Amherst. p. 75.
  14. ^ Pérez Pereiro, Marta. "Filmar a tribo, filmar o íntimo no cinema galego contemporáneo". Ledo 2019, p. 200.
  15. ^ Domínguez, Daniel. "Bs. As. de Alberte Pagán: A memoria dunha fenda". Tempos Novos, August 2007. p. 77.
  16. ^ Martínez 2015, p. 210.
  17. ^ Nogueira, Xosé (2023). "De la trabajosa artesanía a la artística autoría: el proceloso caso del documentalismo gallego" [From laborious craftsmanship to artistic authorship: the turbulent case of Galician documentary filmmaking]. Torreiro and Alvarado 2023, p. 178. Bs. As. [...] opera todavía hoy como obra seminal y referencial para la acuñación de la marca NCG.
  18. ^ Redondo Neira, Fernando; Pérez Pereiro, Marta, "Identidades buscadas e construídas: imaxes da emigración galega no cinema". Ledo 2018, p. 126. "Vense considerando [...] como un título, en certo xeito, inaugural, ou cando menos pioneiro ou inspirador, do que finalmente callou na marca coñecida como Novo Cinema Galego."
  19. ^ Redondo Neira, Fernando; González, Xurxo. "As marcas do procesual nos límites da experimentación do Novo Cinema Galego". Nogueira 2021, p. 83.
  20. ^ Sande, José Manuel. "A década prodixiosa. O NCG en dez fitos." Nogueira (2021). p. 278.
  21. ^ Martínez 2015, p. 210.
  22. ^ Colmeiro, José (2017). Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds. From Galicia to the World. Liverpool University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-78694-030-8.
  23. ^ Oter, Jorge; Miquel Gual, Joan. "Miradas hacia el exterior: construcciones de una otredad alejada." Torreiro and Alvarado 2023, p. 392.
  24. ^ a b Smith 2012, pp. 113-114.
  25. ^ Ledo, Ramiro (November 12, 2009). "Tanyaradzwa". Blogs&Docs (in Spanish).
  26. ^ Rozados, Lara. "O suxeito atravesa a pantalla: Tanyaradzwa". A Nosa Terra, June 25-July 1, 2009. p. 36.
  27. ^ "Palmarés de Curtocircuito 2018". Otros Cines. November 8, 2018.
  28. ^ Villarmea, Iván. "Fóra de campo. Traumas históricos e persoais no cinema galego". Ledo 2019, p. 244.
  29. ^ "Alberte Pagán preséntanos os seus últimos traballos: "estudos cinematográficos" e "superficies"". ZigZag Diario (in Galician). RTVG. March 1, 2021.
  30. ^ Tenreiro Uzal, Cibrán. "Entre illas. Reciclaxe e arquivo no cinema galego." Ledo 2020, pp. 64-65.
  31. ^ Paris, Yago (May 30, 2018). "Sinais en curto 2018. Un salto a otra realidad". Cine Divergente (in Spanish).
  32. ^ "Contos contados de Finnegan e HCE" (PDF). 1996.
  33. ^ "a, de Andy Warhol". Barbantia. Anuario de estudos do Barbanza, ano 2019 nº 15. pp. 269-314. ISSN 1889-0946
  34. ^ "Día do libro: estas son as dez mellores obras publicadas na última década, a ollos da crítica galega". Nós Diario (in Galician). April 22, 2023.
  35. ^ "Arte sonora". Alberte Pagán.
  36. ^ Xestoso, Manuel. "Alberte Pagán. Cine desde as marxes." Sermos Galiza, November 11, 2021.
  37. ^ "Mención Honorífica: Alberte Pagán". Primavera do Cine (in Galician).
  38. ^ "Alberte Pagán". Novo Cinema Galego (in Galician).
  39. ^ "Entrevista con Alberte Pagán, Premio Cineuropa 2021". ZigZag Diario (in Galician). RTVG. November 19, 2021.

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