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HEART OF HAWICK
SUNDAY 4 MAY
14:30 – 16:00 / 90′
A special performance, screening and discussion event exploring archives of displacement within the Venezuelan diaspora.
Curated by Alchemy researcher in residence Francisco Llinas, the event includes a performance of Immigration Services by Esperanza Mayobre, never-before-seen offcuts from Margot Benacerraf’s Araya (1959) newly digitised by Andrés Prypchan, and the first showing of Carlos Otezya’s 1981 documentary Mayami Nuestro with newly translated English subtitles.
Supported by Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, and delivered in partnership with University of Edinburgh, the Romance Studies Department at Cornell University, and Cinesa.
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Esperanza Mayobre and Andrés Prypchan will join Francisco Llinas for a Q&A.
The films in this programme have descriptive subtitles. The introduction and Q&A will have BSL interpretation.
Content warning: contains flashing imagery, sustained intense sound; depiction of insects.
PROGRAMME NOTES
Full programme notes will be published soon.
PROGRAMME
IMMIGRATION SERVICES
Esperanza Mayobre
10′
ARAYA OFFCUTS
Andrés Prypchan
Venezuela – 2024/1959
MAYAMI NUESTRO
Carlos Oteyza
33′23 – Venezuela – 1981
Alchemy Film & Arts
Room 305
Heart of Hawick
Hawick
TD9 0AE
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