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1 TIME TO FLY All films are flight otherwise they are not films. After blowing out the candles to mark our tenth anniversary and becoming consolidated at our Baluarte airport, the festival is back, full of films that are raised from the ground with a dance of air and mystery. It is time to fly. The FLYING programme will feature the wind –how to trap it-, the clouds –how to observe them- or the air –how to cross it-. 40 films will present us with the two faces of the impossible dream for man and other air walkers. The Central Region has one more short film than in other years, making a total of 18 films in a round and solid official section. An even number, 18 films in which two local contributions stand out: David Arratibel and Aitor Gametxo, nearby filmmakers who have spent hours in cinema seats and now show us the miracle which consists of moving onto the screens. Perhaps it is also converse: going from a spectator to a filmmaker. Seniority, with Luciano Emmer, who made almost one hundred films and we present his less known and more personal treasures here: his films on art, a discipline that is sometimes as elusive and difficult to trap as air itself. Youth is concentrated in X Films with three filmmakers who have gone from being promising and bring us their consolidated career, such as María Cañas, Pilar Monsell and Omar Razzak and the much awaited world premiere of the film selected in 2016: Velasco Broca and his New Altar. Special sessions that take us from a Pelota Evening with two documentaries that Jorgen Leth made on this sport separated by 30 years to the latest discoveries in Chez les Basques – including one of the first embossed films by the Lumière brothers, our landscape in three dimensions. Portraits with Alan Fleischer and the emotional tribute to Luce Vigo, daughter of Jean Vigo and the festival’s godmother, to whom this edition is devoted following her recent death. Oteiza, the great heterodox, the biggest challenge for our programming or how to organise four sessions with an artist who never made a film and whose ideas were noted down on paper. This session presents two unpublished super8 films made by Oteiza and a priceless sound archive narrated in his own voice to hear in the hall: Speech to the man in the film darkness. This is also the last edition by this Artistic Director, who bids farewell with an invitation to continue dreaming beyond the screens with The Fifth Wall programme. Twelve metro stations outside the cinemas which invite us on a journey through the city and its surrounding area to experiment and participate in what may be the film of the future, films similar to the theatre where reality abandons the screens and goes on stage. The man who flees enters film, Oteiza told us in the 1960s. Today, perhaps the man who flees leaves film and we will follow him wherever he goes. Oskar Alegria Artistic Director Tribute to Luce Vigo Thursday, March 9th, 17h 2 3 PRACTICAL INFORMATION Official Section – The Central Region 9 feature length films and 9 short films are in the running for the Punto de FESTIVAL VENUE Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director, the BALUARTE Prize for the Best Short Film, the Audience Prize, and the Youth Prize. Pza. Baluarte s/n. 31002 Pamplona Telephone number: 34 948 066 066 FLYING The human desire to flfly, y, but also the birds, the composition of air, every-every- FESTIVAL OFFICE day life in airports, how astronauts feel, the acrobatics of springboard Opening hours: 9:30am to 2pm and 4:30pm to 8pm divers, the mesmerising power of clouds, the sheikhs’ passion for fal- E-mail: [email protected] cons, man’s attempts at being a winged creature, news from air walkers Telephone number: 948 066 199 / 948 066 200 and so on. A theme illustrating the Festival’s narrative and aesthetics and Website: www.puntodevistafestival.com offering endless possibilities for poetry and visual impact. Imprime: Imprenta Zubillaga S.L. Depósito Legal: NA 164-2016 Luciano Emmer: From the racconto to the essay This retrospective takes a diptych approach to Luciano Emmer’s art film: three sessions to explain the change from story to essay; from his initial dramatisation proposal of painting to the art film-essay in his last twenty years, when he decided to explore documentary films in the first-person, rethinking and explicitly citing his own previous films. The Fifth Wall In a constant effort to reinvent itself as a documentary film festival, the 11th Punto de Vista will feature The Fifth Wall, a programme tracking documentary film into new havens or spaces in a modern, much needed, review of the new collective forms of chronicling reality. Hunter Hunted Hunter hunted is the expression when the director of the fifilm lm inadver-inadver- tently creeps into the background of an image in a shooting oversight. There are fetishists who collect them. Here, beyond the fetishism, the portraitists of these five figures are looking for them to be the close-up TICKET SALES that reveals details that are blurred in the distance: Jean-Luc Godard, Ab- bas Kiarostami Chris Marker, Raoul Ruiz and Manoel de Oliveira. BALUARTE Heterodocsias: Oteiza, the filmmaker without cinema Pza. Baluarte s/n 31002 Pamplona How can we organise a retrospective on a filmmaker who never made a Prize: €3 film? How can we put together a series of programmes that unveil his From Friday 24 February until 6 March, from 11am to 2pm, and from 5pm to 8pm ideas on screen? Are we before the great heterodox? Someone who did After Monday 6 February, from 9:30am to 2pm, and from 4:30pm to 10:30pm not finish a single film aware of the fact that his idea was always superior to the result? At Punto de Vista, as lovers of c hallenges, we have leapt SALE OF THE CATALOGUE AND THE BOOK “OTEIZA AL MARGEN” into the unknown and assumed the risk of filling four afternoons of film devoted to the non-existent work of Jorge Oteiza. Fondo de Publicaciones del Gobierno de Navarra (C/ Navas de Tolosa, 21) and Baluarte Main Hall during the festival Special screenings Catalogue price: €5 The festival will devote the eleventh edition to Luce Vigo and will Book price: €15 programme a tribute session with L´Atalante, the legendary film by Jean Vigo, and Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo, a portrait filmed by Jem Cohen BUSES during one of Luce’s visits to Pamplona. On wednesday Baluarte will hold a Pelota Evening with two documentaries about our local sport filmed On Avd. del Ejército: 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15 and 18 by the great danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth. The member of the jury Alain On Padre Moret: 16 and 17 Fleischer will introduce two of his celebrated portraits. On saturday, three On Yanguas and Miranda: 10, 17, 19 and 22 new discoveries of Chez les basques. More information available at http://www.mcp.es/transporte X Films Project OTHER VENUES OF THE FESTIVAL Punto de Vista is once again offering three Spanish filmmakers the chance to make an audiovisual creation in Navarre. María Cañas, Pilar Teatro Gayarre Monsell and Omar A. Razzak will be presenting their projects, and the Avda. Carlos III, 1 winner chosen by the X Films Committee will receive funding to direct a documentary film that will premiere at the 2018 edition of the Festival. Filmoteca de Navarra Paseo Antonio Pérez Goyena, 3 All Official Section films are screened with subtitles in English From Baluerte Bus number 12. 4 5 SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH 19:00 Teatro Gayarre The fift wall MARUJA ENAMORADA Dir: Vivi Tellas. With Maruja Bustamante and Inti el Hermoso, 70’ A Biodrama appears each year in Argentina, which is a theatre play where what is performed is real following a script with what is known as: minimum fiction threshold. More specifically, Maruja Enamorada is a play that deals with the hypothesis of love, a romantic documentary in which Maruja Bustamante relives all of her love affairs, which she has experienced in reality without inventing anything, whilst moving forward with her story. Masterclass by Vivi Tellas after the show (20:30) MONDAY, MARCH 6TH 10:00 Cámara Auditorium Official Section - The Central Region (76’) GREEN SCREEN GRINGO Douwe Dijkstra. Netherlands, Brazil. 2016. 16’ WE MAKE COUPLES Mike Hoolboom. Canada. 2016. 60’ More info on page 10 12:30 Cámara Auditorium Official Section - The Central Region NORMAL AUTISTIC FILM Miroslav Janek. República Checa. 2016. 90’ Far from being just another film on autism, inverts the mirror and does not present the autistic as different people, it’s a true film about people with hobbies who de- dramatise their daily life with their humour and desires. Using a direct visual style and a casual pace in the editing, often accompanied by some piano notes, this choral portrait of a group of autistic teenagers challenges us to enter the screen and cross their mirror. 17:00 Cámara Auditorium Hunter Hunted MORCEAUX DE CONVERSATIONS AVEC JEAN-LUC GODARD Alain Fleischer. France. 2016. 125’ Portrait of Godard whilst preparing the Travel(s) in Utopia exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Centre. It is the culmination of successive reinventions, which began with his phase as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, and continued with his revolutionary fiction in the 1960s, his essays in the 1970s, his return to essay fiction in the 1980s, and the coronation of all his work with Histoire(s) du cinéma.