Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Couplets for an Everlasting Eve

Ageda KOPLA TALDEA 2016 Spain Experimental Animation color 6min Basque HDCAM
Building on the celebration of St. Agatha's Eve — a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris) in a festive atmosphere, singing verses to the beating of long sticks, bertsolari Maialen Lujanbio offers a stark denunciation of gender violence. In verse after verse, she condemns the different manifestations of sexist violence and our inability to combat it.

◎ Screening with Panic Attack!, Munitionsettes, Iris 2.0, Gaining Altitude, Tucuman, The Black Land, In Other Words, Shuma, Icky, Love-In-Idleness, Chromosome Sweetheart

Director

Ageda KOPLA TALDEA

The film is a collectively created work directed by twenty young Basque artists. It combines works made with a great variety of techniques. The music and the rhythm of songs create a highly suggestive formal and narrative unity, which brings new force and depth to the verses.

Ageda KOPLA TALDEA
  • 2016 Couplets for an Everlasting Eve

Director : Ageda KOPLA TALDEA
Screenplay : Maialen Lujanbio
Production : LEKUK KULTUR ELKARTEA, Patxi Azpillaga
Cinematography : Edu Elosegi
Editor : Edu Elosegi
Music : Xabier Erkizia

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