The film Homo sapiens by Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2016) will be screened as part of the activities of the 8th edition of the Veintinueve Trece festival next Tuesday, November 7 at CIC El Almacén in Arrecife. After that, there will be a debate moderated by the professor of Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Iván de Los Ríos Gutiérrez, in which the public will have the opportunity to participate around the idea of failure that this film proposes.
“Every story is the story of a collapse,” writes F.S. Fitzgerald. Every story announces the "risk of failure, ruin, death and oblivion." Perhaps that is why the human species continues to develop strategies of "empowerment, progress and distraction" that allow it to fleetingly suspend the rhythm that devours all things; to stay away from the slow drag that will consume everything that distinguishes us as a species: language and its documents, technology and its advances, culture and its monuments, glories and institutions.
The history of culture is also that of our symbolic strategies against disaster, death and oblivion. Strategies as exuberant as a skyscraper, a ship or a theme park; strategies as beautiful, as strong and elaborate as a theater, a temple or a suspension bridge.
Maneuvers so sublime that, for an instant, the human being forgets that what he always wanted to forget is, precisely, the ruin that is coming, the nothingness that awaits, the death that dances with oblivion.
About the Veintinueve Trece festival
The Veintinueve Trece festival is a cultural project organized by the Veintinueve Trece Cultural Association, Tenique Cultural and the CIne Exhibition and financed by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of Lanzarote, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Culture Area of the Arrecife City Council.
Veintinueve Trece are the geographical coordinates of the island. They also mark a clear objective for the association, to strongly promote the local creative movement and place it on the cultural map of Spain.
The festival is also an accessible event in which registered people will have at their disposal, upon request, a sign language interpretation service and assistance for people with reduced mobility.
All the information about the Visual Arts Meeting of Lanzarote. Veintinueve Trece will be available in the press kit, the official website of the event and on its Instagram, Facebook and Twitter channels.