Acropolis is proud to welcome Argentine director Eduardo Williams for a program of his visionary short films following the rapturous reponse to his recent feature The Human Surge 3 (2023), recipient of this year's Best Experimental Film prize from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Prior to the awards ceremony, Williams will be in person for a presentation of four shorts from across his career that anticipate the themes and cutting edge techniques of his groundbreaking features.
Program:
Could See a Puma (Dir. Eduardo Williams, 2011, 17 min)
An accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through a destroyed landscape, to the deepest depths of the earth.
That I'm Falling? (Dir. Eduardo Williams, 2013, 15 min)
Searching for a seed, a young man emerges from the underground where he hangs out with his friends. They all embark on a long digestive trip.
I Forgot! (Dir. Eduardo Williams, 2014, 28 min)
A group of Vietnamese teenagers stave off boredom by leaping from rooftop to rooftop, window to window, one building to the next. Wild and immersive, the film offers a vision as spellbinding as it is terrifying, juxtaposing all-too-familiar everydayness with the sublime beauty of reckless acts.
Parsi (Dir. Eduardo Williams, 2019, 23 min)
Innovatively shot on a 360-degree camera by young people from Guinea-Bissau’s queer and trans community, this breathlessly immersive work sets a perpetually expanding poem by Mariano Blatt to a kinetic vision of their world.
TRT: 83 min
In person: Eduardo Williams
"A filmmaker for the internet generation, Williams is doing new things and not looking back." —Becca Voeckler, Frieze
"Remarkable... This is bold, formally adventurous filmmaking that really seems to be something new." —Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
"Less scaffolded by theory than guided by sensate curiosity, Williams is part of an experimental set who approaches new imaging technologies as a way to break open perception and the assumed (human) position of the observer. " —Minh Nguyen, Screen Slate
"[Williams'] movies reflect the perpetual churn of our through-the-looking-glass reality: how virtual spaces collapse the gulfs of the physical world and foster new forms of intimacy, even as vast systemic forces reinforce the rigid socioeconomic structures that hold us all." —Nicolas Rapold, Metrograph Journal
"Williams favors disconnected anecdotes, urban legends, and snippets of random texts, at times gleaned from the Internet. There is no conscious hyper-textuality or 'meta' game in Williams, maybe because he is not looking at the digital age as something alien, imposed or a metaphor, but rather as a new type of immersion." —Ela Bitterncourt, Film Comment
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