Son[i]a #235
Alberto Berzosa
In each of his roles as researcher, essayist, curator, and teacher, Alberto Berzosa is interested in the relationship between image and politics, particularly in the Spanish context and the aspects that he considers to have been largely neglected, before and after the transition to democracy.
Berzosa, who has a PhD in Art History, looks to primary sources for much of his research, as a result of which he has an exhaustive personal collection of all kinds of documents that fall outside the bounds of official archives. His aim is to question the official narratives of the 1970s and 1980s, and to draw attention to the role of grassroots civic and political movements. Along these lines, he has writtten the book Homoherjías fílmicas: Cine homosexual subversivo en España en los años setenta y ochenta (Brumaria) and curated the exhibition Madrid Activisms (1968-1982).
SON[I]A talks to Alberto Berzosa about the role of cinema before the transition in reference to two case studies: gay cinema and militant cinema. We talk about the space for subversion that opened up with gay and amateur films, and about their use of camp and collage as narrative strategies and their rather unorthodox activism. As for militant cinema, Alberto explains the difference between worker and proletarian film, and shares the singularities of clandestine filmmaking, produced collectively, without censorship and a clear political agenda.
Fefa Vila
Fefa Vila Nuñez is a queer feminist ‘artivist’, sociologist, mother, essayist, teacher, and many other things. Fefa was one of the founders of the lesbian collective LSD (1993-1998), which was, together with La Radical Gai, one of the touchstones of queer artivism in Spain in the 1990s. Through their political-artistic actions, LSD and La Radi defended new ways of understanding the body, sex, life, death, desire, friendship, family and work relationships, and political action. In this podcast, Fefa Vila reflects aloud on queerness as a state of radical estrangement, which is constantly being redefined. She also talks about the need to experience other forms of sociability, about other affective-relational models and about motherhood.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Alberto Berzosa that we were unable to include the first time around.