BIMI + LUX present: I Die Of Sadness Crying For You study-day 7 December 2019

About this Event

Following its recent premiere at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival and the Seville European Film Festival – LUX, BIMI and the London Instituto Cervantes are delighted to present a screening of Nina Danino’s film

I Die Of Sadness Crying For You (2019) on Friday 6 December which will be expanded and contextualised by a study-day on Saturday 7 December.

I Die Of Sadness Crying For You is a personal essay film on the performance of women’s sorrow, centred on “copla” - a Spanish genre of song of great power and emotion. The film brings together filmmaker Nina Danino's interest in the female voice with archive and newly filmed performances, setting out to look for the women and singers of copla as well as to reflect on the filmmaker’s own memory and experience of it.

This study day presents approaches to the voice and performance as an instrument and form of empowerment, defiance, embodiment and necessary expression in a traditional, lyrical form such as copla, in experimental vocals and in contemporary art performance.

Contributors to the study-day on Saturday 7 December include Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar who has written on women and copla in its social and political context of desire; Nuria Triana Toribio a scholar whose main research is in the fields of popular culture and subculture in Spain including Punk women singers, Catherine Grant, Director of BIMI and writer on Hispanic cinema. In the second half, Nina Danino will discuss the voice and singers in her work, special guests Violeta Valladares singer and musician will give a recital of copla and artist Adam Christensen who uses vocal performance will give a presentation of his work.

Saturday 7th December. 10.00am – 3.30pm

10.00-12.30 morning session on social and cultural approaches to Copla with presentations by Dr. Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar & Prof. Nuria Triana Toribio, followed by a discussion chaired by Dr. Catherine Grant and a recital by guest performer Violeta Valladares.

(lunch break)

1.30-3.30 The afternoon session will be a presentation on the voice and performance in her work by Nina Danino and a guest presentation by the artist Adam Christensen.

About:

Nina Danino is filmmaker and artist. Her films use her own spoken voice and she has recorded with New York experimental singer Shelley Hirsch for her film “Now I am yours” (1992), Temenos (1997) has a soundtrack by Tuvan-Russian avant-garde vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak and parts by Shelley Hirsch and Catherine Bott. I Die of Sadness Crying For You (2019) includes performances by the diva Marifé de Triana.

Her films have been shown worldwide in film festivals including Edinburgh (1985), London (1992, 1998, 2019), Seville (2019), Chicago (1994), Ann Arbor, US (2016), in cinemas; Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco (1994), NFT (2011), ICA, London (2016), Anthology Film Archives, New York (2017), in museums CAC, Malaga (2012), National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik (2013), Tate Modern (2016). She is Reader in Fine Art, Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives and works in London. www.ninadanino.com