What Comes Between

Experimental Documentary, 5:38 mins, 16mm and SD, 2009

Director / Writer / Producer / Photography / Hand Printing 

[FR] : Entre les deux

[ES] : Lo que separa

  • “What Comes Between” was produced with the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council
  • Curators and programmers, please email for a preview link
  • Disponible con subtítulos en español
  • Disponible avec sous-titres en français

Blending a diaristic and archival approach by integrating found footage with family photographs and personal narration, Cecilia Araneda reflects on the violence of the 1973 Chilean coup that forced her family to leave the country in What Comes Between (2009). For Araneda, memory of this childhood event is embedded and intertwined within the media artifacts that form its residue, providing a connective link to her former identity. Filmmaking thus becomes a means for Araneda to activate her memories, and to delve deeper into the historical contexts that inform her personal history. This is remarkably articulated in the film’s least autobiographical moment, in which Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 speech about the military industrial complex is reworked and disfigured by the filmmaker through a series of interventions that distort the registration of its images, turning the speech’s warning of a monolithic ideology into a material event which breaks the frame into shards of mediated fragments. / Dan Browne, Mediated Landscapes: Technology and Environment in Recent Canadian Cinema

SYNOPSIS

[EN]What Comes Between is an examination of personal memory and loss rooted in the filmmaker’s birth place – Chile – and her departure from that country long ago. The work is a collage film created with found footage from personal and historic sources, and original hand printed and tinted footage.

[FR]What Comes Between (Entre les deux) est un examen de la mémoire et de la perte des origines par une réalisatrice née au Chili et contrainte à l’exil peu après le coup d’état militaire. Le film réunit une pluralité de sources visuelles personnelles et historiques.

[ES]What Comes Between (Lo que separa) es un estudio de la pérdida y los recuerdos personales vinculados a la tierra natal de la directora, Chile, y su partida del país hace mucho tiempo. La obra es un collage creado con imágenes recicladas de fuentes personales e históricas, e imágenes originales pintadas y tintadas a mano.

AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

  • VTape Award for Best Video Art – Alucine: Latin Media Arts Festival (Toronto, Canada) – 2010
  • Nominated: Best Experimental Documentary, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic), 2010 – What Comes Between

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

  • Antimatter Festival (Victoria, Canada) – 2009
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, USA) – 2010
  • Images Festival (Toronto, Canada) – 2010
  • Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland) – 2010
  • Festival Internacional de Derechos Humanos (Buenos Aires & Santiago de Estero, Argentina) – 2010
  • Documenta Madrid (Madrid, Spain) – 2010
  • Festival de Cine de Huesca (Huesca, Spain) – 2010
  • Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany) – 2010
  • L’Alternativa: Barcelona Independent Film Festival – Hall Screen (Barcelona, Spain) – 2010
  • Alucine: Latin Film and Media Arts Festival (Toronto, Canada) – 2010
  • NSI Online Short Film Festival (Winnipeg, Canada) – 2014
  • Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada) – 2014
  • Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal, Canada) – 2015
  • Festival International Signes de Nuit (Paris, France) – 2015

CURATED SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS

  • The People’s Revolt: A Showcase of New Chilean Experimental Cinema, curated by Anto Astudillo, presented by the Anthology Film Archives (NYC, USA) – January 2020
  • We Are Going Home, part of the Film Farm: 25 Years of the Mount Forest Independent Imaging Retreat Programme, curated by Chris Kennedy for TIFF Wavelengths, presented at the TIFF Cinematheque (Toronto, Canada) – July 2019
  • L’Heure et l’endroit, presented by Antitube at the Québec City Film Festival (Québec City, Canada) – Sept 2018
  • New Prairie Cinema: WNDX Collective, curated by Double Negative Collective, at the Cinémathèque québécoise (Montreal, Canada) – Apr 2013
  • again+again, curated by Tom Kohut, at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts (Winnipeg, Canada) – Nov 2012
  • My Precious Novella, curated by Mireille Bourgeois, at Galarie Sans Nom (Moncton, Canada) – Jan/Feb, 2012
  • My Precious Novella, curated by Mireille Bourgeois, at SAW Video (Ottawa, Canada) – July 2011
  • From Winnipeg to Saskatoon: A Voyage of Video Across Canada’s Great Plains, curated by Solomon Nagler, presented by the National Arts Centre as part of Prairie Scene, at Club SAW (Ottawa, Canada) – May 2011
  • How (not) to Forget: New Filmmakers and the Narration of Pinochet’s Dictatorship, curated by FranceDoc, at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) – Nov 2010
  • No Ficciones IV: Latinoamérica, curated by Cecilia Barriga, at MUSAC: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Leon, Spain) – Oct 2010
  • EYE AM: Another Experiment by Women, curated by Lili White, at the Film Anthology Archives (New York City, USA) – Oct 2010
  • On IAIR microCinema: Reconstruction, curated by Mary Magsamen, Artpace / Aurora Picture Show (San Antonio, TX, USA) – Sept 2010
  • Memory Work: The Films of Cecilia Araneda, curated by Scott Birdwise, Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa, Canada) – March 2010

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