Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
Sycorax
Sycorax
Lois Patiño, Matias Piñeiro
Portugal
2021
Film
Short Film
In William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" we found common ground and a crossroads between our visions that helped us merge theatre and landscape, text and silence, movement and stillness in a gesture that leads us to question ourselves and find the films we want to continue making in the future.
With 'Sycorax' we return to this canonical text with a contemporary twist that blurs the boundaries of representation, allowing us to challenge a patriarchal understanding of a voiceless female character, Caliban's mother, only remembered as the witch who took the first step on the island.
general information
edition
6th ECRÃ Festival
venues
02/07 – BOTAFOGO STATION – 2:30 PM
04/07 – MAM CINEMATECA – 7 PM
duration in min
20
premiere
Latin Premiere 6th ECRÃ Festival
indicative classification
12 years / Not recommended for children under twelve years old / Not recommended for children under twelve years old
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Lois Patiño, Matias Piñeiro
LOIS PATIÑO
Born in Vigo, Spain, in 1983. Filmmaker and artist based in Madrid. His films and video installations revolve around the contemplative experience and the relationship between people and landscape. His works have been shown at film festivals such as Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto or NYFF; and at art fairs such as ARCO, Paris Photo, Photo London, Unseen or Aichi Triennale.
MATIAS PIÑEIRO
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982. Screenwriter and director, he lives in New York, USA. For the past ten years he has been developing a series of films based on the female roles in William Shakespeare's comedies, called “The Shakespeareads”. He is also a film professor and film programmer. He is currently working with Galician filmmaker Lois Patiño on Ariel, a feature film based on Shakespeare's “The Tempest”.
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