YON

Faced with the discovery of videographic archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago reprograms their childhood’s mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fictions and the passing of time. In these intimate materials, they finds a possibility of thinking about dissident sexualities, the relationship between technology and the human body, language and childhood. The images capture what cannot be named and prepare for the possibility of a fragmented and subjective metamorphosis. Jonathan/Yon is the body outside of social domestication. How does such a body grow in our contemporary societies?

Call me Jonathan

  • Technical Info / Información Técnica:

(2021) / 00:08:08 / 4:3, 1:1, 16:9 / Color / Sound: Stereo / Panasonic Digital 8mm, celular Samsung, Mini DV / experimental documentary short film: portrait, chilhood, LGBTIQ, gender identity / Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Short Synopsis / Sinopsis Corta:

After finding the video material from her childhood, the director reprograms her mythology as an infant and reflects on her body traversed by affections, fiction, and years.

Ante el hallazgo del material videográfico de infancia, Bárbara Lago reprograma su mitología de infante y reflexiona sobre su cuerpo atravesado por afectos, ficciones y años.

  • Synopsis / Sinopsis:

Faced with the discovery of videographic archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago reprograms their childhood mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fiction, and the passing of time. In these intimate materials, they finds a possibility of thinking about dissident sexualities, the relationship between technology and the human body, language, and childhood. The images capture what cannot be named and prepare for the possibility of a fragmented and subjective metamorphosis. Jonathan/Yon is the body outside of social domestication. How does such a body grow in our contemporary societies?

Ante el hallazgo del material videográfico de infancia, Bárbara Lago reprograma su mitología de infante y reflexiona sobre su cuerpo atravesado por afectos, ficciones y años. En esos materiales íntimos, encuentra la posibilidad de pensar sexualidades disidentes, la relación entre tecnología y cuerpo, lenguaje y niñez. Las imágenes capturan lo que no se puede nombrar y anuncian la posibilidad de una metamorfosis fragmentada y subjetiva. Yon es el cuerpo fuera de la domesticación social. ¿Cómo crece un cuerpo así en nuestras sociedades contemporáneas?

  • Long Synopsis / Sinopsis Larga:

Faced with the discovery of videographic archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago reprograms their childhood mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fiction, and the passing of time. In these intimate materials, they finds a possibility of thinking about dissident sexualities, the relationship between technology and the human body, language, and childhood. Mothers, fathers, children, and siblings coexist in this ecosystem, assembling a fabric of affections where the different times that weave the family history circulate. Bodies grow, images change their texture, and in these metamorphoses, we find ways of how childhood can be experienced freely. The images capture what cannot be named and announce the possibility of a film that also recovers the formal procedures of that filmed body. A fragmented and subjective narrative runs through Jonathan/Yon: is the body outside of social domestication. How does such a body grow in our contemporary societies? Is filming a way to generate new social utopias?

Ante el hallazgo del material videográfico de infancia, Bárbara Lago reprograma su mitología de infante y reflexiona sobre su cuerpo atravesado por afectos, ficciones y años. En esos materiales íntimos, encuentra la posibilidad de pensar sexualidades disidentes, la relación entre tecnología y cuerpo, lenguaje y niñez. En ese ecosistema cohabitan madres, padres, hijxs, hermanxs armando un tejido afectivo donde circulan los distintos tiempos que van tramando la historia familiar. Los cuerpos crecen, las imágenes cambian su textura y en esas metamorfosis encontramos las formas de vivir la niñez sin velos. Las imágenes capturan lo que no se puede nombrar y anuncian la posibilidad de una película que también recupere los procedimientos formales de ese cuerpo filmado. Una narrativa fragmentada y subjetiva recorre a Yon: es el cuerpo fuera de la domesticación social. ¿Cómo crece un cuerpo así en nuestras sociedades contemporáneas? ¿Filmar es una forma de generar nuevas utopías sociales?

  • Director´s Biography / Biografía del Director:

BÁRBARA LAGO

Bárbara Lago is an audiovisual creator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They studied Film Directing at the FUC (Universidad del Cine) and works as a scriptwriter and director in various fiction and documentary projects. They work to explore links between the media and their narratives, in a discursive and material hybridization with video, cinema, and digital technologies.

Bárbara Lago es unx realizadorx audiovisual con base en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Estudió Dirección cinematográfica en la FUC (Universidad del Cine) y se desempeña como guionistx y directorx en diversos proyectos de ficción y documental. Sus trabajos exploran vínculos afectivos entre los soportes y sus narrativas, en una hibridación discursiva y material con el video, el cine y las tecnologías digitales.

  • Overview / Ficha técnica:

Script & Director / Guion y dirección: Bárbara Lago

Producer / Producción: Bárbara Lago

Executive Production / Producción Ejecutiva: Florencia Jaworowski, Florencia Caset

DoP / Dirección de Fotografía: Diego Lago, Bárbara Lago

Editing / Montaje: Germán Cortes, Bárbara Lago

Sound Design / Dirección de Sonido: Bárbara Lago

Post Production / Post Producción: Iván Cardoso

Coloring / Corrección de Color: Pedro Razzari

Cast / Intérpretes: Bárbara Lago

Graphic Design / Diseño Gráfico: Josefina Alonso

  • Festivals and Awards / Festivales, Premios y Nominaciones:

– 22 BAFICI, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival; 03/2021; Argentina

– 5 Bendita Tú, Women’s Film Festival with Gender & Diversity Perspective; 10/2021; Argentina

– 4 GRABA, Audiovisual Film Festival (Special Mention); 11/2021; Argentina

– 9 FIDBA, Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival; 12/2021; Argentina

– 68 Oberhausen Int Short Film Festival (Best International Film); 04/2022; Germany

– 8 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; 08/2022; Colombia

– 33 São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Best Int Short Film); 08/2022; Brazil

– 20 VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Special Mention); 08/2022; Canada

– 8 Espacio Queer, International Queer Film Festival; 08/2022; Argentina

– 17 Shorts Mx, Mexico International Short Film Festival; 09/2022; Mexico          

– 18 Camden Int Film Festival; 09/2022; US

– 26 Queer Lisboa, International Queer Film Festival; 09/2022; Portugal

– 10 FAB, Bariloche Film Festival; 09/2022; Argentina

– 5 PORTO FEMME International Film Festival; 09/2022; Portugal

– 41 VIFF, Vancouver Int Film Festival; 09/2022; Canada

– 30 GAZE, Ireland LGBT Film Festival; 09/2022; Ireland

– 2 Muestra del Círculo de la Industria Mesoamericana; 10/2022; Guatemala

– 9 Corriente, Non Fiction Latin American Film Festival; 10/2022; Peru

– 24 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris; 10/2022; France

– 4 FICCE, Corporalidad Expandida Int Short Film Festival (Best Experimental Film / MUA Award); 10/2022; Argentina

– 7 EUREKA, International Film Festival; 10/2022; Colombia

– 5 Eneagrama International Experimental Film Festival; 10/2022; Argentina

– 21 EDOC, Non-Fiction International Film Festival; 10/2022; Ecuador

– 9 Asterisco, International LGBT Film Festival; 10/2022; Argentina

– 11 Ultracinema, Experimental Film Festival; 10/2022; Mexico

– 38 Cipolletti Film Festival (CineAr Award); 11/2022; Argentina

– 3 Giornate di Cinema Queer, LGBT+ Film Festival; 11/2022; Italy

– 28 Rosario Latin American Film Festival; 11/2022; Argentina

– 7 Nahia, International Short Film about Sex, Gender, Diversity & Eroticism; 11/2022; Spain

– 30 MixBrazil Festival Of Diversity; 11/2022; Brazil

– 67 Cork International Film Festival; 11/2022; Ireland     

– 29 L’Alternativa, International Independent Film Festival; 11/2022; Spain

– 15 Primeiro Plano Film Festival (Best Edition); 11/2022; Brazil

– 25 ICARO, International Film Festival; 12/2022; Guatemala

– 9 Transcinema Non Fiction Film Festival; 12/2022; Peru

– Ibértigo: Muestra de cine iberoamericano; 12/2022; Spain

– 5 Hecho por Mujeres, Women Film Festival; 03/2023; Peru

  • Links:

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/635577014

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