A spring afternoon on the San Cristobal hill, in downtown Santiago de Chile. Four friends and a sound engineer talk about the events seen and experienced during the popular revolt that began in 2019 in Chile. The film brings to the surface certain conversations related to any revolution: hope, disillusionment, fire, torture and police violence. The name of the film comes from the poem “April Noon” by Eileen Myles.
Biography
Francisco Rodríguez Teare is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in France with a moving image practice working predominantly with film, video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating works and exhibiting them both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts.
He has directed the shorts “Appels téléphononiques”, “Una luna de hierro”, “Why are they equipped with eyes ?”, “Octubre al mediodía”, “El oro y el pez”. The video installations and performances “Gois”, “Colored Procession”, “This dream is mine” and the hybrid feature film “Otro sol”.
Recently his work has been presented at film festivals and museums as New Directors/New Films at MoMA, Toronto Film Festival, 62 New York Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Taipei Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Cinémathèque Française, Mar del Plata IFF, CPH:DOX, Shanghai IFF, IndieLisboa, FID Marseille, Viennale.
