Cycles and samples Cinemateca de Bogotá

Horizons

Horizons aims to generate re-readings of audiovisual works and social phenomena through the exchange of views and curatorial approaches of two film programmers, each invited to propose a selection of works based on a central provocation: a film, an image or a theme related to the Latin American audiovisual industry. Horizons seeks to highlight curatorship as a form of audiovisual writing.

The first edition of Horizons was curated by Michel Lipkes and Janaína Oliveira around the film The Young and the Damned (1950) by Luis Buñuel. The second edition was curated by María Paula Lorgia and Isabel Orellana around the film The Swamp (2001) by Lucrecia Martel. The third edition brought together Víctor Guimarães and María Campaña Ramia around the film Black God, White Devil (1964) by Glauber Rocha, and the fourth was curated by María Luna and Karina Solórzano where the proposal was based on Araya (1959) by Margot Benacerraf.

Let There Be Peace

As part of the legacy of the Truth Commission and the joint work with IDARTES, Let There Be Peace seeks to generate spaces for meeting and reflection around audiovisuals focused on the importance of remembering the armed conflict, contributing to the construction of the truth and moving towards social reconciliation, highlighting experiences of resistance, dignity and community.

The series has had guest curatorships by Luisa Fernanda González Valencia, Andrés Eduardo Pedraza Tabares and Claudia Solanlle Gordillo Aldana.

Pink Cycle

The Pink Cycle was born in 2001 in Bogotá as a space for the visibility of LGBTIQ+ audiovisual cultures. The Cycle has featured significant figures of national and international audiovisual creation and research, promoting the emergence of new forms of representation of genders and sexualities in all their diversity and complexity.

The Cycle was born with the support of the Goethe Institut, the Centro Colombo Americano de Medellín and the Instituto Pensar of the Universidad Javeriana. Guest curators have included Albertina Carri, Cédric Succivalli, João Federici, Popo Fan, among others. The Cycle has featured guests such as Barbara Hammer, Agustina Comedi, Nicolás Videla and Kristian Petersen, as well as works by authors such as Rosa von Praunheim, Pier Paolo Pasolini, R. W. Fassbinder, Derek Jarman, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Luis Ospina.

CICLA

Since 2013, the Appointment with Latin American Cinema (CICLA for the Spanish original) has established itself as an annual space for meeting and reflection on the region’s cinema, reflecting, with a curatorial gaze, the diversity and quality of contemporary and historical production. The CICLA is an initiative of the Cinemateca de Bogotá together with the Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America and the Caribbean.

In recent years, CICLA has had guest curatorships by Pedro Adrián Zuluaga, Diana Bustamante, and Maximiliano Cruz.

Restored

The Restored Cycle seeks to highlight the value of the archive, audiovisual memory and the importance of preserving cinema over time. It is a space that seeks to generate encounters and re-encounters with recently restored Colombian and Ibero-American films, thus valuing the work of individuals, organizations and institutions to preserve audiovisual heritage.

It is held every two years and has had contributions from archives and cinematheques that have carried out processes of preservation and restoration of their films.

Afro Sample

The Afro Sample emerged in 2016 as a project that seeks to highlight the audiovisual works made by collectives, groups and people from black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquera communities. The Sample has been consolidated with the support of the Line of Ethnic Peoples of Idartes, as a space for meeting, circulation and discussion around Afro audiovisuals.

The Afro Sample has a national exhibition from the various territories of the country and an international exhibition where curators such as Jonathan Ali, Claire Diao and Kênia Freitas have participated. In 2022, it dedicated a retrospective and exhibition to the work of Sarah Maldoror.

Pop Cycle

The Pop Cycle seeks for audiences to meet and re-encounter films from world cinema that have become classics or cult films, allowing their stories, which have accompanied multiple generations, to continue to resonate in the present, and be part of popular culture.

The first Pop Cycle: ’90s Nostalgia was made in association with Cine Tonalá, and was followed by The ’80s: A Journey to Other Worlds, curated by Dayra Galvis. In 2023, Disney: Adventures of Our Childhood was curated by Angélica Clavijo Ortíz.