Retazos Móviles © Werkplaats Molenwijk / Framer Framed 14 Dec 2024
18:00 - 20:00
Documentary Screening: Retazos Móviles at Werkplaats Molenwijk
Come to Werkplaats Molenwijk on 14 December 2024 18:00 for a screening of Retazos Móviles, a documentary which delves deeper into the legacy of the Chilean textile tradition Arpilleras. The screening will be accompanied by an exhibition of Arpilleras artworks, including one made by Molenwijk local residents in the Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Molenwijk Textile Memories by Chilean artists Monet Barraza Madariaga and La Javi Textil.
Watch the trailer here!
Retazos Móviles is a documentary in which Latin American women stitch together their experiences of how public transport and mobility in remote areas of the Netherlands have shaped their lives. The film combines stop-motion with the Chilean textile tradition of Arpilleras, a technique developed during the dictatorship in Chile, where the textile works portrayed silenced stories. Its more profound question addresses issues of how lives are reconstructed in long trajectories of migration while, in telling our stories, a community of women is created.
This film is not just a documentary, but a methodological experiment that stems from scholar Sandra La Rota’s doctoral research. It poses the fundamental question: Who has the right to generate knowledge? The film breaks away from the urban-centric discourse and amplifies the voices of migrant women in rural areas of the Netherlands. Retazos Móviles pushes the boundaries of ancestral stitching techniques, which have long been used to give voice to silenced stories, and breathes new life into them through the use of stop-motion.
Retazos Móviles is a testament to the power of collaboration. Co-created among eleven women or people identifying as non-binary, it includes shots from eight different cameras. The music composition is not hidden in a postproduction process but is an integral part of the film’s creation. At the heart of this experiment is the question why we make films and how to include care and community building in the film-creation process. The project is a collaboration between Fundación Diáspora Solidaria (Mónica Barraza and Siria Wildbergh-Olivares), Club Entrelazadas (Javiera González Velásquez), Nene Moné in the music composition, and Elliot and Sandra La Rota in the audiovisual field.
In addition to the screening, previously made Arpilleras – including a collective Arpilleras artwork by the Molenwijk community – will be on display at Werkplaats Molenwijk. Three female neighborhood chefs from Karam Keuken will provide free snacks.
Join us on 14 December 2024 at 18:00 for a documentary and an exhibition on female textile heritage and sign up here to let us know you are coming!
The documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles. There will be given a Dutch summary and there are Dutch translations possible. Admission is free.
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Werkplaats Molenwijk is made possible in part by de Alliantie, Gemeente Amsterdam/Stadsdeel Noord, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Retazos Móviles received funding through the TOD-IS-RUR Project from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956030.
Diaspora / Amsterdam Noord / Feminism / Shared Heritage / Migration / Molenwijk / Social Practice /
