Join us for an exciting public lecture with renowned filmmaker Eduardo Williams as he shares his unique approach to creating films that blend everyday life with the extraordinary.
Dive into Williams' fascination with the beauty of uncertainty, fostering small-scale resistance and autonomy throughout his creative journey. Williams will discuss his techniques for transforming ideas into scripts, collaborating with a diverse range of individuals, and using urgency to let go of control. As an audience member, you're encouraged to explore the effects of using different cameras on shooting spaces, subjects, and image textures.
Williams will also explain his use of virtual reality in recent projects, changing his perspective on framing. Williams sees filmmaking as an open adventure, building mutual connections and valuing the exploration of the unknown while sharing possibilities instead of certainties. Additionally, he will discuss the benefits and challenges of filming in diverse locations, striving to understand different viewpoints and fostering an environment that confidently embraces uncertainty. Williams will inspire the audience to explore cinema's potential for connecting with non-human entities and consider film's ability to spark curiosity.
Eduardo Williams (b. 1987, Argentina) directed the short films Pude ver un puma (2011), Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013), Tôi quên rồi! (2014) and Parsi (2018), as well as the feature film El auge del humano (2016). In 2016 he directed Allons-y! (45’) for the Festival de l’image en mouvement Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou. His last work was Un gif larguísimo (2023), made for an exhibition on Bruce Baillie. His films premiered at Cinéfondation and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, Berlinale and FID Marseille. His first feature won the Pardo d’oro for Best Film at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival and was later shown at Toronto International Film Festival - Wavelengths, New York Film Festival - Projections, Tate Modern and other festivals. In 2019 he received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. The Film Study Center at Harvard University awarded him a Robert E. Fulton III Fellowship in Nonfiction Filmmaking for 2020-21.
