The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that has already its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both MUBI and FILMADRID will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The seven selected works will be premiering online from June 6 - 12, 2022 on MUBI's Notebook. The selection was made by the programmers of MUBI and FILMADRID.
My Place by Miguel G. Otero
An anthology of Bill Douglas's autobiographical trilogy's empty shots, My Place displays the brutal yet nostalgic mosaic that gives rise to his gaze on the past century, his childhood, and life in mid-twentieth-century rural Scotland.
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Antología de los cuadros vacíos en la trilogía autobiográfica Bill Douglas, My Place despliega el mosaico brutal y nostálgico que suscita su mirada al pasado, a su infancia, a la vida en la Escocia rural de mediados del siglo XX.