Spectacle Theater will present a retrospective series of Argentine director Jazmín López screening her two feature films: Leones / Lions (2012) and If I Were the Winter Itself / Si yo fuera el invierno mismo (2020) in its New York premiere. The series will run August 5 - 30 in Brooklyn, New York City.
A filmmaker, visual artist, and a professor, Jazmín López graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She has also an MFA in Visual Arts from NYU and MFA in Visual Arts from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She participated in the WhitneyISP. Her work is represented by Ruth Benzacar gallery and has been featured in venues like Fondation Pernod Ricard, San Jose Museum, OCAT, Tabacalera, Kadist, Istanbul Biennial and KW. She works as professor for NYU and as an assistant professor of Boris Groys. She worked as a full faculty professor at Universidad del cine, Buenos Aires.
Widely seen as one of the most promising and important festival-circuit debuts of 2012, Leones has been as hard to track down in the interceding decade as it is to parse—a macabre and insinuating forest fable drawn up in sinuous, long Steadicam takes that betray the spontaneity and energy of its teenage cast and precociously assured director.
In If I Were the Winter Itself, which had its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival and stars Clara Trucco, Rafael Federman, Martín Shanly, and Laila Maltz, four friends meet on a remote estate to create a cinematic re-enactment of three iconic works that embodied the social and artistic revolution of 50 years ago. The New York premiere of the film on Friday, August 12 will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director, moderated by Josh Siegel, Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and a member of Cinema Tropical’s board of directors.
