FIREWORKS: EDUARDO WILLIAMS

Humanity connected in Eduardo Williams’ cinema, the first partial retrospective to the Argentinean director Pardo d’Oro in 2016

Lago Film Fest pays tribute with the first partial retrospective in Italy to Eduardo Williams, Pardo d’Oro and Best Debut Filmmaker award at the 69th Locarno. An Argentinean director capable of recounting the distinctive features of the contemporary in a fresh and enveloping form, Teddy Williams is known and appreciated on the international film scene for his anomalous and unique poetics that question man in the world. In fact, the humanity of Williams is a humanity connected and in search of connection, equal but dissimilar, staged in a cinema that reinterprets the world as a map, a cartography without borders in which human beings are called upon to project trajectories, trace routes, and wander around uncovering and discovering themselves. Eduardo Williams’ cinema floats on the surface of the world, travelling between countries, continents and cultures with a gaze far removed from anthropology but in search of metaphysics.

The selection:

Pude ver un puma – Eduardo Williams

Argentina / 18’ / 2011 / Fiction

Que Je Tombe Tout le Temps – Eduardo Williams

France / 15’ / 2013 / Fiction

J’ai oublié – Eduardo Williams

France / 28’ / 2014 / Documentary

Parsi – Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt

Argentina / 23’ / 2018 / Documentary

Williams’ shorts films “Pude ver un puma” (2011) and “Que je tombe tout le temps?” (2013) premiered at Cinéfondation and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, followed by “Tôi quên rồi!” (2014) which had its premiere at FID Marseille. His first feature, “El auge del humano” (2016), won the Pardo d’oro for Best Film at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival and was later shown at Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelengths, New York Film Festival – Projections, Tate Modern and other festivals. In 2016 he directed “Allons-y!” (45’) for the Festival de l’image en mouvement Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou. His last short film “Parsi” (2018) was produced by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for the Biennale de l’image en Mouvement 2018 and premiered at Berlinale – Forum Expanded, it was shown at Tate Modern, MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Lincoln Center and other festivals and museums. In 2019 he received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. The Film Study Center at Harvard University awarded him a Robert E. Fulton III Fellowship in Nonfiction Filmmaking for 2020-21.