After the success of its previous editions, ‘Destiladera. Lanzarote revealed’, the Tenique Cultural project dedicated to "recovering and showing old films from the island", celebrates this year a new cycle of seven screenings that will take place between September 20 and 30. The sessions will deal with the theme of "emigration", the central axis of the 13th 'Lanzarote Film Festival'.
This second edition has been presented at a press conference in which those responsible for all the collaborating institutions have been present, such as the Councilor for Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Jesús Machín Tavío, the president of Tenique Cultural, Javier Fuentes Feo, and the councilors of Culture of the six participating municipalities.
The municipalities that are going to host sessions of 'Destiladera' are: Tías, Arrecife, Teguise, Tinajo, Haría and San Bartolomé. In all of them you will be able to see the old films of the residents of the island, who are at the same time those who film and those who are filmed.
In this edition, the Tenique Cultural association wanted to recover the "domestic and amateur audiovisual material of the island's emigrant past". "There are many reasons why the people of Lanzarote abandoned their land and many of the consequences of that process", they highlight from the association.
Jesús Machín Tavío, Minister of Culture of the Cabildo, highlighted the "institutional cooperation" in the organization of a "key event" in the recognition of cinematographic works that take a tour of our history and allow us to "understand how it affected" the cultural and socioeconomic development of Lanzarote and La Graciosa the phenomenon of emigration. To which he added that “this was very common several decades ago and conditioned a large part of the areas of Lanzarote society”.
The purpose of this series of screenings, according to the president of Tenique Cultural, Javier Fuentes Feo, “is to present to the people who inhabit the island an audiovisual material of incalculable value". These are recordings that show the "life of the people of the island; an opportunity to reflect on how emigration was faced in certain times".
This is how 'Destiladera' allows us to "bring to the present the intimate, and sometimes forgotten, past of the island, according to the views of its own inhabitants". This is very important for Tenique Cultural, since it is a way of "knowing the history of the island through a very special cinema, such as domestic or amateur cinema”.
The session on the 21st in Arrecife will be "especially emotional" since the ALCA collective, the Lanzarote Amateur Film Association, some of whose members have already passed away, will receive the Tenique Cultural award for their "contribution to the culture and audiovisual heritage of the memory of Lanzarote".
In fact, in each Destiladera session the valuable and little-known old ALCA films will be screened. They are “Estampa marinera” and “No merece morir”, of about 10 minutes per title. After them, there will be a screening prepared by the Tenerife filmmaker Dailo Barco called “Partial story of an island” and then an open talk, mediated by people who have emigrated from Lanzarote and by Dailo Barco himself. Attendees will be able to intervene and give voice to their own experiences and memories about the places and events shown in the projected materials. At the end of each session, all people will be invited to an enyesque to continue the dialogue.
During these seven days, all sessions will begin at 7:00 p.m. The places chosen for the screenings of ‘Destiladera. Lanzarote revealed’ are the following:
- September 20: Casa Seño Justo in Tías
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September 21: tribute to the ALCA collective at the Tinasoria Sociocultural Center in Arrecife.
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September 22: Municipal Library of Teguise
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September 23: the Merendero de los Dolores in Tinajo.
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September 27: Centro Sociocultural de la Vega in Arrecife.
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September 29: El Aljibe de Haría room.
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September 30: Playa Honda Civic Center.
