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Magia popular
Belén Datwiler
Magia popular es un libro de cantos a pequeñas escenas de la calle y la comunidad. Transcribe la voz de un poema que flota y a la manera de los viejos cancioneros, trae el cantar como antídoto para aligerar los días. Tiene que ver con el trabajo, y con querer seguir escribiendo a pesar del cansancio. Tiene que ver con la dureza del mundo en el que vivimos, y al mismo tiempo con ver el cielo en las uñas pintadas de una pasajera del 140. Pero tomarse ese cielo en serio y no perderlo de vista. Como un truco, despertar el sentido de la magia a través de la poesía. Una magia que no es privada, ni ocultista, ni Ilusión. Una magia popular, liberada, a la luz del día, a cada instante en todos lados.
Illustrated by Pierina Lategola.
Edited by Umbral.
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A world sustained by the wheel of the wind
Pierina Lategola
They say that before the song and the word, there was a silence full of mysteries.
The ancient voices of the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, the most isolated of the Polynesian islands, say that the first rhythm was marked by the prolonged beating of the feet on the ground. This primitive sound unchained a strange influence that tuned the hearing and increased the wills. The first guttural song dawned, which was a scream, which was strength. Voices were raised under the wide ombu trees.
Skin, bone, stone, leather.
The sonorous rumbling of the bodies burying their footprint, hearing with the plants the song of the interiority of the world.
Booklet that compiles writings, drawings and many quotations from different authors about the oral poetic-musical traditions of the different communities on earth.
Idea, written, illustrated and edited by Pierina Lategola.
Compilation of quotes by Belén Datwiler and Pierina Lategola.
Research material for the workshop The pilgrim song and the oral tradition coordinated together with Belén Datwiler, in the framework of the Cycle of word studies.
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Trinchera
Poetry
The space of the body was always a trench
And just as it is forgotten we also return to it one night.
It is enough with an armored sky and a nameless projectile
Reaching you like a rain from somewhere...
Book of poems by Poetry.
Illustrations, design and edition by Pierina Lategola.
2024
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The poems of the cold mountain
Han Shan
Han Shan (“cold mountain”, in Chinese), the hermit of Cold Mountain, “the madman” of Cold Mountain, they called him.
A confused and indescribable being for his contemporaries and for the history that followed, who, like an anchorite, literally sank into the forests that covered the slopes of Cold Mountain. He lived and apparently died there writing on every possible place (boulders, cliff walls or bark of large trees), taking with him only his brushes and ink, thoughts, poems, reflections, questions.
Han Shan, Mount Cold, more than a place, a poet or a legend, would be a poetics, a state of mind linked to stillness, to solitary search, to harmonious contemplation, to the awareness of emptiness:
"During at least two moments of the centuries of Tang splendor, in addition to the poetry in the strict Buddhist sense of the monk-poets, there was at least one poetic school of Buddhist inspiration that moved in the secular tradition and achieved relative literary merit. The poets of that school, monks too, offered the vision of the “icy mountain” (Han Shan) as a state of mind and a search for the Tao."
Octavio Paz.
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What's wrong with this image?
Michelle Citron
I hope that my writing can hack the structures, that the words will free me from the compulsion to repeat. I can't even know which stories would trigger the break. They are like mines buried under a plain through which I walk, whose location can only be triggered by a verbal passage that detonates them.
American filmmaker, psychoanalyst and teacher. This text belongs to her book "Home movies and other necessary fictions", a project that took Michelle Citron ten years of work through research, the viewing of family movies (home-movies) filmed by her father.
An amateur practice that proposes,
beyond the conscience of the filmmaker, the production of what the author calls a “necessary fiction”, a promise of happiness and tranquility that does not always coincide with the adult gaze that reviews them.
Idea by Azul Aizenberg.
Editing and design by Pierina Lategola.
2021
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Planning visually: notes on personal cinema and industrial cinema
Maya Deren
There are risks, of course, and then there is the full weight of being solely responsible for the failure of your idea. But the risk of failure is part of any original or creative act; it is a requirement and a privilege of any experimental activity.
A text in defense of amateur cinema written in the years fifty. The dancer and filmmaker Maya Deren, Ukrainian migrant to the United States, thinks about cinema from her own productions where she has played roles in front of and behind the camera, producing a series of short films of enormous visual lyricism.
Translation by Carolina Martínez.
Idea by Azul Aizenberg.
Editing and design by Pierina Lategola.
2021
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Beauty
The image is a creation of the spirit. It cannot be born from a comparison, but from the approximation of two more or less distant realities. The more distant and just are the relations of the two realities approached, the stronger will be the image and the more it will possess more power and poetic reality.
Pierre Reverdy
La imagen es una creación del espíritu. No puede nacer de una comparación, sino de la aproximación de dos realidades mas o menos alejadas. Cuánto más lejanas y justas sean las relaciones de las dos realidades acercadas, más fuerte será la imagen y poseerá más potencia y realidad poética.
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Pierre Reverdy
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