Special Presentations
The Winter Campaigns
Rafael Ramírez
Title:
The Winter Campaigns
Synopsis:
In a house, in no man's land, a video game player lives with his family. Other characters move through this concentric empire, agitated by an omnipotent force. The player questions his role in what he understands as a war between Reality and Language. The Great Adversary develops his strategy from a distant world, a place populated with a system of spheres, maps, embryos, where he controls the march of his armies.
Director: Rafael Ramírez
Year of production: 2019
Countries: Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico
Running Time: 70’
Programming
Monday December 4th to Sunday December 10th
10:00 – 24:00 (GMT-5)
Festhome
Online for Cuba
Thursday December 7
21:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Saturday December 9
17:00h (GTM-4h)
e-flux Screening Room
172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA
Production: Carolina Graterol, Rafael Ramírez, Víctor Santillán
Genres: Fiction, Experimental
Language: Spanish
Production Companies: Maraca Cine, WunderKabinett Films
Photography: Laura Sanz
Screenplay: Rafael Ramírez, Jimmy Nieves
Editing: Alejo Alas
Sound Design: Jesús Bermúdez
Music: Rafael Ramírez, Jesús Bermúdez, Rafael R. Betancourt
Cast: Jimmy Nieves, Ramón Legón, José Luis Rodríguez Mustelier, José Luis Carralero
Festival Selections: Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, documenta fifteen, Irida Visions, Horizontes do Filme Ensaio – Porto Alegre.
Director's bio:
Rafael Ramírez (Cuba, 1983). BA in Audiovisual Communication by the University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba. Graduated in Documentary Filmmaking at the EICTV of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His work has been part of international programs in France, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, USA, Greece and Japan. His short films and projects have been premiered or selected in relevant film festivals such as Locarno, Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Frames of Representation, Neighboring Scenes, FICValdivia, FestCurtas, MAFIZ, Frontera Sur, DocLisboa, CortosCali, among others. In the 32th edition of Mar del Plata was presented a retrospective of his works in the Altered States Section. Ramirez’s first feature “The Winter Campaigns” was premiered in the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2019. In 2021, DOCMA the Association of Documentary Cinema in Spain organized a retrospective of his work.
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