IV INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CIRCUMPOLAR SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES

 

 

 

IV INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CIRCUMPOLAR SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES

Reykjavík, September 25-26th, 2014

 

Organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Iceland and the International Program on Circumpolar Issues (PIECA), Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Salvador (Argentina), under the auspices of the International Association of Circumpolar Socio-cultural Issues (IACSI), this fourth International Workshop includes both oral presentations and documentary and fiction films.

 

 

 

Location: Árnagarður

Room 422

 

16:00-17:20: Fito Pochat (Argentina)

“Mika” (Fiction, Spanish with English subtitles, 2013, 80’)

Mika Etchebéhère and her husband Hipólito were witnesses of facts that changed the history of the 20th century. Marxist militants from Argentina, they start a long trip in search of the revolution: the Argentine Patagonia, Berlin and Paris, but it will be in Madrid where they will finally find that revolution, in the middle of the Civil War in Spain. Mika will be the only woman with the grade of Captain of the Republican forces.

 

17:20-17:30: Discussion & Coffee break

 

17:30-18:05: Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez (Argentina) 

“Lost (?) in Iceland” (Documentary film, 2014, 35’) 

From the author’s  point of view the Icelandic identity is analyzed through everyday life images in Reykjavík and interviews. This multidimensional issue is captured just apparently at a glance.

 

18:05-19:35: Lucía Puenzo (Argentina / Executive Producer: Nicolás Batlle)

“Wakolda” (Fiction, Spanish with English subtitles, 2014, 90’)

In 1960, a German physician meets an Argentine family in a desert region of Patagonia. Looking for perfection and purity, the physician will become close to this family, but nobody could imagine his secret identity.

 

19:35-19:50: Discussion and Coffee Break

 

19:50-20:00: Final workshop conclusions & Discussion on future IACSI activities. 

 

 

20:00:21:00: Dinner at the Student Pub on Campus  

 

 

 

21:30-22: 25: Kyle O’Donoghue & Miki Redelinghuys (South Africa/Norway) 

“Mystery of the Arctic Cairn” (Fiction, English, 2013, 54') 

In collaboration with the Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF), this film will be screened as part of the Festival and the Workshop. Venue: Bió Paradís/2, Hverfisgata, Reykjavík. 

The film follows four men and their tempestuous Inuit dogs on a 1,200-kilometer journey into the icy wilderness. Tobias Thorleifsson has a dream to cross the Canadian Arctic in the footsteps of Otto Sverdrup —a Norwegian polar legend who mapped 150,000 square kilometers of land in the Arctic with his 16-member crew in 1898. Teaming up with American polar traveler John Huston and Canadian Hugh Dale-Harris, the men travel to Land’s Lokk in search of Sverdrup's lost cairn. South African filmmaker, Kyle O’Donoghue documents this  journey to the edge of the world, capturing incredible interactions with wildlife including a stand-off with a polar bear, a dance with arctic wolves, and the silent awe of  musk oxen.

 

Free of charge.