11th BAFICI News

Musicked up at XI BAFICI

The XI BAFICI, organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, offers music events, live shows and a wide variety of films through its sections Special Projections, Live Music and Music.

Special Projections

To be held on Thursday 26 and Tuesday 31 March at 9pm at 25 de Mayo Theatre (4444 Triunvirato Ave). Tickets are free of charge and can be collected from the theatre’s box office.

Specially invited by the festival are Juana Molina, with her unique style that blends ambient and electronic music elements, and Isol, composer and former singer of the electronic pop band Entre Ríos, along with her brother Zypce and musician Gabriel Chwojnik, who composed the soundtrack of films like Mariano Llinas’s Historias Extraordinarias and Gustavo Taretto’s Medianeras; they will be scoring Chaplin’s short films The Immigrant, One A.M and Easy Street respectively.

LIVE MUSIC - Coralie Clement

The young French singer who belongs to the generation of performers of the so-called “New French Song” will be appearing with her third solo album Toystore. The concert will take place on Thursday 2 April at 9pm, free of charge until capacity limits have been reached, at 25 de Mayo Theatre, 4444 Triunvirato Ave. Tickets can be collected since 10am from the theatre’s box office.

MUSIC

Within the festival’s programme this section offers many films from different times, genres and music cultures. Some of them are: Hit, which tells the story of some Uruguayan songs and how they stay alive after the years (directors Claudia Abend and Adriana Loeff will be present); Under the Tree, by Indonesian director Garin Nugroho on rituals and spirits in Bali; documentary Soul Power by American Jeffrey Levi-Hinte on the gathering of black musicians from America, Africa and the Caribbean like James Brown and Celia Cruz, among others, on the occasion of a festival to commemorate the 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman; Pat Holden’s Awaydays, based on Kevin Sampson's eponymous novel, and documentary The Wrecking Crew, the first work of Denny Tedesco, son of American guitar player from the sixties Tommy Tedesco.

Also to be shown will be Nick Moran’s Telstar (United Kingdom, 2008), on music producer Joe Meek, who stirred up the pop scene; Sounds Like Teen Spirit: a Popumentary by Jamie Jay Johnson (United Kingdom, 2008), on the child contest Eurovision Junior; Saam Farahmand and Soulwax’s Part of the Weekend Never Dies (Belgium/United Kingdom, 2008) portraying the tours of DJs David and Stephen Dewaele; American director Dianna Dilworth’s Mellodrama, on instruments like the Mellotron; Stian Kristiansen’s The Man who Loved Yngve (Norway, 2008), whose soundtrack comprises hits from the eighties; Paulo Henrique Fontenelle’s Loki: Arnaldo Baptista (Brazil, 2008), on the history of the band Os Mutantes; Argentinian Lorena García’s Esta Cajita que Toco Tiene Boca y Sabe Hablar, on folk singers from the north of Argentina; and Juan Riggirozzi’s rockumental Ellos Son, Los Violadores, on the Buenos Aires punk band from the eighties.