I couldn’t be happier to share with you all this series that Carlos Saldaña (
@carlaspuerto ) and I have organized at MoMA (
@themuseumofmodernart ) between May 14 and 26, “Teo Hernández. A Pomegranate Orchard and the Bitter Well”:
/calendar/film/5903
The Mexican filmmaker Teo Hernández, who lived most of his life in France, created in just 23 years a body of work of more than 150 films on Super 8, capturing like no one else the essence of love, desire and passion; the body, dance, and speed; the life of objects, real and imaginary cities, everyday and queer life, and travel; myth, legends, alchemy, and paganism; forests, the sea, the sky; friendship, companionship, and family; food, intoxication, metabolism, and breathing; seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, seasons, years, and new eras; light, color, vision, and again speed…
The film series includes a total of 12 programs in 16mm (each session is screened twice, for a total of 24 screenings), and we will see not only 17 films by Teo Hernández, but also 4 films by Michel Nedjar, 3 films by Jakobois, and 2 films by the MétroBarbèsRochechou Art Collective, formed together with them and Gaël Badaud, all of them friends, collaborators, and companions in life.
Teo Hernández is the most important filmmaker I know, the one who has allowed the most magical things to happen in my life and in the lives of others, the one who made me want to make films, who gave me a new life project, who helped me reconcile with my sexuality, and who helped me move through the grief after my father’s death.
Many, many thanks for everything to Michel Nedjar, and for making this possible to Francisco Valente (
@francis.valente ), Enrico Camporesi (
@enrico_camporesi ), Alexis Constantin, Miguel Armas (
@mglrms ), Mauricio Hernández, the Centre Pompidou (
@centrepompidou ) and Light Cone (
@lightcone_officiel ), as well as to everyone who has accompanied me since my first meeting with Michel Nedjar in 2018, when I first proposed him this project.
This program is supported by the Consulate General of Spain in New York (
@spaincultureny ).
