Screening|UN TIGRE DE PAPEL (A Paper Tiger)
+ Meeting with the Director Luis Ospina
Curated By Gong Siyue, Bruce Bo Ding
Guest in Conversation: Christopher Connery
Time: 2016.9.21, 19:00-21:30
Venue: Chronus Art Center
Address: Building 18, No 50 Moganshan Road Shanghai
(Free Admission with limited seats. Reservation is thus encouraged via http://form.mikecrm.com/dAjD2N)
About the film
Director:Luis Ospina
Length: 114 Mins
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish, English
Subtitle: Chinese
SYNOPSIS
Pedro Manrique Figueroa, pioneer of collage in Colombia, has never had a biographer. For a very simple reason: his life is like an adventure novel that is both incomplete and contradictory, constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Taking Manrique Figueroa’s life and work as a pretext, this film takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view. A Paper Tiger is itself a collage, where art and politics rub shoulders, where truth and lies are placed side by side, where documentary and fiction intermingle.
CREDITS
UN TIGRE DE PAPEL (“A Paper Tiger”)
Director & Producer: Luis Ospina
Screenplay: Luis Ospina base don an investigation by Lucas Ospina, François Bucher y Bernardo Ortiz
Photography & Sound: Luis Ospina
Music: “En el segundo tono” by Guillermo Gaviria
Editing: Rubén Mendoza / Luis Ospina
Cast: Jaime Osorio, Carlos Mayolo, Arturo Alape, Joe Broderick, Jotamario Arbeláez, Vicky Hernández, Juan José Vejarano, Tania Moreno, Beatriz González, Santiago García, Umberto Giangrandi, Jorge Masetti, Krishna Candeth, Penélope Smith, Rolando Peña, Carolina Sanín, Tsu Ke-Uin, Carlos Castillo, Petra Popescu, Mijail Grushenko, Tarcisio Vanegas, Walter Morales
Length: 114 minutos.
Prizes: Best Documentary – Colombian Ministry of Culture (2007); Special Jury Prize – Miami International Film (2007); Premio Especial del Jurado - Festival Internacional de Cine de Miami (2008); Signis Prize - Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse (2008); 2nd Prize Best Latinamerican - Lima Film Festival (2008); TeleSur Prize – EDOC Encuentros del otro cine (2008); Prize of “Revolution and Culture” magazine – Havana Film Festival (2008).
About LUIS OSPINA
(Cali, 1949)Film studies at USC and UCLA. Along with Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo belonged to the “Grupo de Cali”. Has directed 32 films, including two feature-length fiction films: “Pura sangre”(1982) and “Soplo de vida”(1999) and seven feature-length documentaries, among them (“La desazón suprema: retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo”(2003) and “Un tigre de papel” (2007), and several short films and documentaries, among them “Agarrando pueblo”(1978, co-directed by Carlos Mayolo), “Capítulo 66”(1993, co-directed by Raoul Ruiz. His films have won awards at the international film festivals of Oberhausen, Biarritz, Havana, Sitges, Bilbao, Lille, Miami, Lima and Toulouse. His work have been shown at the Tate Gallery, Simon Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dokumenta Kassel and BAK Gallery. Since 2007 is the Director of the Cali International Film Festival FICCALI.
