Princeton Documentary Festival

The debate about where to draw the line – or whether there is a line to be drawn – between fact and fiction is not exclusive to the documentary. The crucial question of what to believe about the images that we see, whether in a film or on the evening news, becomes the starting point for the work of certain filmmakers whose films negotiate that uncertain frontier where documentary and storytelling meet. Edgardo Cozarinsky from Argentina, José Luis Guerín from Spain, Luis Ospina from Colombia and Eduardo Coutinho from Brazil are four modern masters of the form. Their often unclassifiable work is at the forefront of this renewal in the practice of both fiction and documentary, in a tradition that can lay claim to Jorge Luis Borges as much as to Robert Flaherty. They are all exceptionally lucid practitioners whose contribution to the debate will by no means be limited to their work. Their presence together at Princeton will be an event in itself.

-Andrés Di Tella, Artistic Director.

Thursday October 2

4.30pm - "The Work of the Real"
Talk by Consuelo Lins

7pm - Jogo de Cena

("Playing")
by Eduardo Coutinho (Brazil, 2007, 103 min)
Commentary by Maite Conde (Columbia University)

Friday October 3

2pm - Agarrando Pueblo

("The Vampires of Poverty")
by Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo (Colombia, 1978, 28 min)
Commentary by Jens Andermann (Birkbeck College)

2.30pm - "Developing Films of Underdevelopment"
Talk by Luis Ospina

4.30pm - La desazón suprema: retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo

("The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo")
by Luis Ospina (Colombia, 2003, 90 min)
Commentary by Rubén Gallo (Princeton University)

Saturday October 4

10am - La guerre d'un seul homme

("One Man's War")
by Edgardo Cozarinsky (France, 1981, 105 min)
Commentary by Gabriela Nouzeilles (Princeton University)

1.30pm - "Public lies, private truths?"
Talk by Edgardo Cozarinsky

3pm - Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia

("Photos in the City of Sylvia")
by José Luis Guerín (Spain, 2007, 67 min)
Commentary by Eduardo Cadava (Princeton University)
Discussion with José Luis Guerín

010 East Pyne, Princeton University

http://www.princeton.edu/spo/films/