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Eduardo Williams

Eduardo “Teddy” Williams (b. 1987) is an Argentine filmmaker and artist whose works explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for shared relations and spontaneous adventures within physical and virtual networks. He studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His works have screened widely at festivals including Cannes, FID Marseille, and Toronto International Film Festival. His first feature, El auge del humano (2016) won the Pardo d’oro at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival. Retrospectives have taken place at the Cinémathèque française, Paris, and Valdivia International Film Festival in Chile, amongst others.

Filmography

Un gif larguísimo (A very long gif) (2022), Parsi (Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt) (2018), El auge del humano (The human surge) (2016), Tôi quên rôi! (I forgot!) (2014), Que je tombe tout le temps? (That I’m falling?) (2013), Pude ver un puma (Could see a puma) (2011)

Saturday 9 March, 10:30

A twentysomething in Argentina loses his warehouse job. Boys in Maputo, Mozambique, perform half-hearted sex acts in front of a webcam, and a woman in the Philippines assembles electronics in a small factory. The Human Surge is hybrid cinema at its most playful and electrifying – a docufictional exploration of labour and the global digital economy, and an almost spiritual reflection on our collective relationship to the multiple realities produced by imaging technologies.

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Run Time

99 mins

Year

2016
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Sunday 10 March, 10:30

Audacious and sprawling. Borderless and liberatory. Eduardo William’s follow-up to The Human Surge (2016) (there is no part 2) is a freeform odyssey of sociality and technology shot entirely on a 360-degree camera.

“Unflinching about global woes of wealth disparity, environmental catastrophe, and exhaustion, [Williams] imagines alternative ways of living, rethinking the vast possibilities of the world through new practices of seeing, hearing, and being together.” -Andréa Picard