sssssh – chamber film cycle is an exhibition and programmed series of screenings inspired by Maya Deren’s idea of “chamber films”, a cinematographic practice between the private and the public, the amateur and the professional. In the works by the filmmakers in this project, each film is a room, a chamber that captures the intimacy of the gesture, the briefness of a glimpse. This cycle makes Chiquita Room into that place that, as Maya Deren wrote, is home for the heart: «the breath caught in the early morning because the heart’s eye saw something which the hand could never hold…».
On the occasion of the Loop Festival and as part of the City Screen 2022 program, Chiquita Room proposes this cycle and collective exhibition with the participation of Judith Adataberna, Valentina Alvarado Matos, Marie Losier, Callisto Mc Nulty and Bárbara Sánchez Barroso.
Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00 pm.
Opening of the exhibition The heart’s eye saw something which the hand could never hold.
Thursday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Screening #01 sssssh – Judith Adataberna
With the screening of Parpadeo (2018), El espectrorium (2016-2017), Glimpses in the devil’s eye (2019), Inside the microtubule (2018).
With the presence of Judith Adataberna.
Friday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Screening #02 sssssh – Bárbara Sánchez Barroso
The session will include screenings of the films The Odyssey (2018) and the three films that are part of the installation The Holobiont That Therefore I Am (2022): The Knots We Knot (with Adriana Vila Guevara, 2021), Botanical Dream (2022), The way my mother talked to plants (2022).
With the presence of Bárbara Sánchez Barroso.
Saturday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Screening #03 sssssh – Valentina Alvarado Matos
With the screening of Trópico Desvaído (2016), Chances de luz (2017), El mar peinó la orilla (2019) and Arrojalatierra (2021).
Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Screening #04 sssssh – Correspondences by Valentina Alvarado Matos and Bárbara Sánchez Barroso
Screening of correspondences by Valentina Alvarado Matos (Letters to Nazli Dincel, 2020) and Bárbara Sánchez Barroso (Letters from the forest, 2017).
Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Screening #05 sssssh – Callisto Mc Nulty
Presentation of the publication From Spring to Spring by Callisto Mc Nulty with Sara Agudo Millán and screening of Pénélopiade (2022).
With the presence of Callisto Mc Nulty.
Friday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Screeing #07 sssssh – Marie Losier
Screening of Miniature Houses From Chicago Museum of Arts (2002), Bird Bath and Beyond (2003), Which Is Witch ? (2020), Electric Storm – 100 Years of Theremin (2020).