Routes of Desire

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Ever since 1896, women have contributed to the realm of cinema an abundance of creations worthy of admiration stemming from their particular experiences in the world. The discovery of this surprising, inspiring and significant archipelago of female culture has been the raison d’être of the work of the Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona during the thirty years that it has been running.

Constructing, reconstructing, restoring and weaving genealogies of film on the basis of pleasure, enjoyment and creativity. Subverting the dictates of academia, the androcentric narratives of the History of Film (with capital letters, naturally), those carefully refined lists, polished and repolished, that indicate who deserves to appear, to feature in textbooks (very few of them women and often limited to a specific chapter). Resurrecting the pioneering women, establishing connections between them and women filmmakers today, discrediting the narrative of exceptionality—women filmmakers as mythological beings, Amazons who emerge suddenly over the course of history to the surprise and fascination of the public.

This was the basis from which convened the first edition of the Archipelago Project in 2017. An archipelago that has gradually grown over the years and that has decided to construct a collective tribute to the women filmmakers who have shaped the universe, a tribute that also signifies the acceptance of the legacy they have bequeathed. 

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