Projections
Miss Universo
Screening of Juana Dolores
Cinema Edison
Carrer Joan de Camps i Giró, 1, 08401, Granollers, Barcelona
November 7
19:00
Screening (14 min) and discussion (30 min)
MISS UNIVERSO is a short film that oscillates between video art and video essay that reflects on violence, work and beauty from the concept of eroticism in Georges Bataille from a feminist, universal and timeless perspective, through archive images and an interview with a miss who declares that he prefers sex with love to sex without love. The piece is based on one of the film’s fifteen cinematic vignettes Masculin, Féminin (1966) by Jean-Luc Godard and corresponds to the interview that the protagonist, Paul, son of Marxism, does to Elsa, Mademoiselle 19 years old, a girl who does not have an image of herself based on the figure of the intellectual or the revolutionary, who is simply happy with all the advantages that being chosen “the most beautiful” has provided her: fame, travel, luxuries.
Juana Dolores
Juana Dolores (El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1992) is an actress, playwright and stage director, as well as a poet and video artist. All his work is based on the tension between ideologies and beauty. Has published Bijuteria (56th edition of the Amadeu Oller Catalan poetry prize, 2020, Edicions Galerada). In video art and video essay she works from archive images as can be seen in the pieces Limpieza (2020), an audiovisual pamphlet against the hypocrisy of the State and society in the face of the precariousness and contempt suffered by cleaning, home and care workers in general; Santa Barbara (2020), a tribute to mining fighting; and Miss Universo (2021), an interview with a mass, interpreted by herself, which responds by reflecting on concepts such as violence, work and beauty based on eroticism to Georges Bataille from a feminist, universal and timeless perspective. In theatre she has written, performed and directed #JUANA DOLORES# *massa diva per a un moviment assembleari* (2019-2020, Antic Teatre), a performative solo against the immobility of identity from the perspective of a working-class daughter who dances and makes Playbacks in front of the mirror of her parents’ room dreaming that she is a Popstar; and *Hit Me if I’m Pretty* (2022, Antic Teatre), a piece against gender violence that reflects on the object of desire and its sovereignty.
