HOMAGE TO VALERIA SARMIENTO
2 April, 17:45, Sala Pasolini - CinemazeroValeria Sarmiento
UN SUEÑO COMO DE COLORES
NATIONAL PREMIERE
By Valeria Sarmiento, Chile, 1972, 10′
Directorial debut of the director, then 24 years old. Un sueño is a short documentary film that portrays the reality of women strippers in two well-known clubs of the time: the Mon Bijou and the Tap Room. Due to the Chilean coup in 1973, the film was never screened and remained unreleased until 2021, when the original negatives were found.
LA DUEÑA DE CASA
By Valeria Sarmiento, 1975, 23′
Although it is a short fiction film, it has all the characteristics of a documentary. The film records the behavior of a bourgeois woman who is a housewife and dedicated to raising children. A gentle and harsh depiction of what it means to be a woman and mother in the Latin American imagination during the time of dictatorship.
EL HOMBRE CUANDO ES HOMBRE
By Valeria Sarmiento, 1983, 66′
In Costa Rica, Valeria Sarmiento collects interviews from a multitude of men under the guise of a documentary on Latin American romance. The result is a study full of black humor about machismo in Latin America and the real distance that separates the macho from his masculinity.
Speakers
Valeria Sarmiento
Federico Rossin