señ@r internetPart of the programme of the London Short Film Festival, Cinema Mentiré brings a collection of Latin American shorts that, while delving into the corners of our digital lives and the net, raises more questions than answers
24 JANUARY 2024, 8.45 PM | Institute of Contemporary Arts - ICA
Cinema Mentiré comes back in 2024 with our all-time fave program, a passionate ode to 2yk and the wild, wild dawn of the internet. Relive the cringe and charm of our digital adolescence, with all its joy and, let's be real, some darkness. We're spicing it all up with the era's hottest music videos, so get ready for a nostalgia trip with equal parts heart-throbs and dial-up meltdowns.
SEÑ@R INTERNET
We have become accustomed to the internet and digital life, which were once new and unfamiliar. The net is now so ingrained in our daily lives that we can barely imagine life without it. We use it to work, to learn, to communicate, and to entertain ourselves. But what does the internet mean for us? How has it changed us? And what does the future hold? Who is the internet?
This programme of Latin American short films explores the internet and our digital nature in a variety of ways. The films are creative, fun, thought-provoking, and sometimes even critical of the internet's impact on our lives.
This program is both a love letter and a critical commentary on the internet. It is an ode to the arrival of home internet and personal computers, and to the ways the internet has transformed our lives. But it is also a reminder that the internet is a powerful tool that can be used for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use it.
Ħ❦Ш †⚈ ₡ђ@ηğe̟ ⶖ☻ЏƦ スクリーンセーハ / How to Change Your Screensaver, dir. Sebastián Sagot, 2021, Costa Rica
Homenaje a la obra de Philip H. Gosse / Homage to the Work of Philip H. Gosse, dir. Pablo Martín Weber, 2020, Argentina
Carpeta fotos / Photo Folder, dir. Florencia Vallejos, 2020, Argentina
Internet, dir. Sonia Marotta & Dadalú, 2014, Chile
Amor por internet / Internet Love, dir. Las Conquistadoras & Alma Producciones, 2010, Bolivia
I want to be alone, dir. Molly Soda, 2023, Puerto Rico / USA
Hyper-reality, dir. Keiichi Matsuda, 2016, Colombia
Nunca é noite no mapa / It’s Never Nighttime in the Map, dir. Ernesto de Carvalho, 2016, Brazil
Cultureisbusiness the opera loop song - segundo acto / Cultureisbusiness the opera loop song - second act, dir. HNAS (Elena & Daniela Solis), 2022, Mexico
dear internet </3:
50+ years from the first email, 20 from my first @yahoo, and 18 from the first youtube video. you changed our lives, hope u know it. knowledge, friends, endless conversations, images, questions, answers - a shared intangible life. we r 1 now and 4ever.
dear internet, your biogs and dark corners can be scary; the eternal freedom u promised is filled with humanity-both good and bad. u r organised yet messy genuinely human characteristics-good, bad, and messy:(
dear internet, u gave us films, videos, secrets, songs, stories, tiktoks, thousands of all those. u gave us cinephilia, torrents, hours of discoveries. u made us laugh, u made us cry-u offered the whole world, and we embraced it. with you, we learned, chose, cherished. XD
dear internet, I love you forever. take care (of yourself and us). here's our selection of what you mean to us.
TKM
xx
