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Jorge Suárez-quiñones Rivas

Amijima

Fiction expérimentale | hdv | noir et blanc | 54:55 | Espagne | 2016

“ They arrive at Amijima. This will be their place of death ”. (Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Love Suicides at Amijima) Jorge Suárez-Quiñones sets out on an unusual adaptation of the famous bunraku play The Love Suicides at Amijima, written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in 1720. This updated version holds on to the passionate, heartbreaking and bleak spirit of the original, adding to it an understanding of the lack of communication and the emptiness, so characteristic of the contemporary world. A hardly distinguishable figure walks through the fog. His is an odyssey of deeply romantic and tragic undertones across a mythical territory where he will encounter both sublimation and existentialist surrender. Besides intelligently threading references to classics such as Viaggio in Italia (Rossellini, 1954) or Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda, 1969), Jorge Suárez-Quiñones borrows elements from new prodigies of experimentalism, such as Encounters in Landscape (3x) (Salomé Lamas, 2012). Emotionally overwhelming, sublime in its use of landscape and white and black cinematography, Amijima is an absolute revelation. (Introduction by JAVIER H. ESTRADA)

Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas (1992, León) is a Spanish filmmaker, videoartist and graduate in Architecture with a master in Audiovisual Contemporary Creation in VideoLAB (currently MasterLAV). His last film, “ Amijima ”, had its international premiered in International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017 after having its world premiere in the Official Competition of FILMADRID International Film Festival 2016, where it was awarded with the special mention of the youth jury. His films have been projected as well at MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, CGAC Contemporary Art Museum, CGAI Image Art Center & Cinematheque, Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, ALCINE International Film Festival, Moscow Media Art Center “ Now and After ” or SixtyEight Art Institute Copenhagen, being part of the archive of Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin 2016, MUBI`s notebook (with his video-essay on Ozu`s cinema “The Eternal Virgin ”, included among the best video-essays of 2017 in Sigh&Sound Magazine), Filmscalpel and the online cinema platform Márgenes. His crossed background, education and practice in both film and architecture has taken place in Madrid (Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid and MasterLAV • Master Course in Contemporary Audiovisual Creation, where he is currently teaching about audio-video-essayist practice), Tokyo (University of Tokyo) and Shanghai (Tongji University).