Julia Martos proposes the session Espigar, conservar, futurizar as part of her residency at Azkuna Zentroa within the Babestu. Creation Support Programme.
Interested in curatorship and film programming, the artist guides this activity that deals with various aspects of her research and practice revolving around forgetfulness, appropriation, and the defence of feminist film rewriting processes undertaken by filmmakers working with archives.
In this session Julia Martos holds a conversation with representatives of La Digitalizadora de La Memoria Colectiva, a network of professionals from the world of archives, audiovisuals and citizen participation, which supports neighbourhoods and social collectives in Andalusia to preserve their audiovisual memories. With the use of recovery methodology (gleaning), digitalisation, description, preservation and collaborative dissemination, they contribute to the preservation of the audiovisual memory of social movements and the acknowledgement of collective memory as part of a plural perspective of history.
The New Video Archive of the Barrio San Francisco “Tele Frisko”, filmed by cameraman Santi San Martín during the decade 1988-1998, alongside the shortfilm“Veladuras” (Pilar Monsell, Spain, 2022, 21 min), an example of work with appropriated domestic material in the Andalusian creation documentary, will be screened to accompany this session. In this film, the perspective of some daughters on their father’s homemade films activates the anthropological power they contain.
