Marcos Sensibles: Ecos Latinoamericanos

With Gabriela Paredes Siml, Darío Aguirre and Axel Velasco 

un taller de cinecuidado sobre sentir, escuchar y pertenecer
(a cinecare workshop on feeling, listening and belonging)

In Spanish and German.

The starting point of the Tender Frames: Latin American Echoes workshop is the documentary César’s Grill, which will be screened the evening before (01.05. at 20:00). The screening is free of charge for workshop participants.

During the workshop, we will work together with Darío Aguirre on selected scenes from César’s Grill. Through conversation—as well as associative, affective writing prompts which we will facilitate together with Axel Velasco—we approach the relationships, identities, and emotions embedded in the film and weave them together with our own. Participants are invited to bring a personal audiovisual fragment (e.g. a photo or a short video or audio recording). In this way, a gentle and caring space opens, where feeling, listening, resonance, and reflection can unfold together. Whose stories are told—and how? What remains invisible? What does belonging mean to us personally? When and with whom do we feel connected? What shifts within us between here and there? Who gets to tell our stories?

A shared lunch is part of the workshop and opens a space to connect and encounter at ease.

The workshop is aimed at people from the Latin American and German-Latin American community. It seeks to encourage us to recognize and take ourselves seriously as holders of knowledge, witnesses of our own histories, and as living archives. As part of a caring practice and in order to create a safer space, the number of participants is limited. In case of high demand, a selection will be made.

Participation is free.

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Gabriela Paredes Siml is a German-Peruvian anthropologist, political educator, cultural manager and aspiring film mediator. Using participatory and audiovisual methods, and through the translation of Latin American poetry, she creates spaces of resonance in German-Latin American contexts.

Darío Aguirre isa filmmaker, writer, and producer whose work combines subtle humor with a precise attention to identity, family, and memory. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and is now based in Hamburg, where he also founded Tiempo Filmproduktion in 2020.

Axel Velasco is a Mexican writer, philosopher and cultural coordinator based in Berlin. His work engages questions of the body, architecture, and inhabiting. He currently is part of the Latin American poetic collective Blinder Passagier, curating poetry events and interdisciplinary formats, and develops collage-based workshops.