The Galician Film Archive is programming a lineup in May that highlights three main themes: the Permanence of the Ephemeral series, dedicated to internet images and their multiple forms of circulation, the presence of Belgian editor Claire Atherton, and the Materials for a History of Cinema in Galicia session, in which new digital restorations of five short films produced by Víctor Ruppen between 1975 and 1977 will be presented.The schedule is completed with the third installment of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's titles, through which the José Sellier auditorium will host the final screenings of the retrospective the Xunta's film archive has been dedicating to the German director since March, and with the final stretch of Mutant Territories, a program on cinema and postcolonialism that this time incorporates two key films on this debate in restored versions.Additionally, as is customary, the month's programming includes new sessions of Fóra de serie, Off Galicia, and Filmoteca Júnior, with several screenings featuring introductions and free admission.Content Born to DisappearThe month's central program is Permanence of the Ephemeral, a series of five sessions curated by documentary and contemporary film specialist Miquel Martí Freixas, organized in collaboration with the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival in Pamplona, with which the Filmoteca has maintained an ongoing partnership in recent years.The program brings together works by filmmakers who work with images sourced from the internet and content born to disappear, in a series of five sessions curated by documentary and contemporary film specialist Miquel Martí Freixas, organized in collaboration with the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival in Pamplona, with which the Filmoteca has maintained an ongoing working relationship in recent years. Program 3: Colectivo Neo-zoon: navigate, observe, upstream (day 12); Program 4: (Im)perfect Optics of Representation (day 13); Program 3: Neo-zoon Collective: to navigate, to observe, to trace back (day 12); Program 4: (Im)perfect Optics of Representation (day 19) and Program 5: Collections of the Other (day 23).Claire Atherton and a tribute to Victor RuppenThe Xunta Film Archive will host Belgian editor Claire Atherton, a frequent collaborator of Chantal Akerman, as part of the Sharing Cinema program. 20 Years of Cinema in Progress. Her participation will take place on May 22 at 7:00 PM, with a Q&A session with the audience moderated by Núria Aidelman, followed by the screening of D'est, one of the first collaborations between Atherton and Akerman.Meanwhile, the section Materials for a History of Cinema in Galicia is programming a special session on May 26 at 8:30 PM with five short films produced by Víctor Ruppen between 1975 and 1977 in new digital restorations, carried out by the Galician Film Archive and the Spanish Film Archive. The program, which will feature the presence of people associated with the teams and the circle of the Galician producer, includes Fendetestas, Illa, O herdeiro, O cadaleito and O pai de Migueliño, titles that represented one of the most systematic attempts to make cinema in Galician in professional formats in the 1970s.The cycle dedicated to R.W. Fassbinder enters its final stretch in May with a selection that includes La ley del más fuerte (day 5), Trip to Happiness of Mrs. Kusters (days 6 and 7), The Devil's Delight (days 8 and 12), The Chinese Roulette (days 14 and 15) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (days 19 and 20), while Mutant Territories completes its approach to postcolonialism as treated in cinema with two screenings in new restorations: West Indies, by the Mauritanian Med Hondo (day 6) and Chronicle of the Burning Years (day 13), shot in 1975 by the Algerian Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the only African Palme d'Or in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.Off Galicia with Alberto VázquezFóra de serie includes in May a prominent presence from Radu Jude with his latest film, Kontinental '25 (days 20 and 21), An Unfortunate Fling or Crazy Porn (day 26) and Don't Expect Too Much from the End of the World (day 27). This section also includes Pendaripen, the Silent History of the Gypsy People (day 21), in collaboration with the Secretariat Gitano Foundation, as well as East of the Wind (day 28), presented by filmmaker Maia Gattás Vargas, Coffee and Cigarettes, by Jim Jarmusch (days 28 and 29), and the premiere of ¿What Does That Nature Tell You?," by Hong Sang-soo (days 29 and 30).Within Off Galicia there will be three sessions with the teams present: A Sea of Women (day 8), presented by its director, Sabela Brand; the animated film Decorado (day 14), presented by its creator, Galician illustrator Alberto Vázquez, and the documentary Reflections of Dark Love (day 15), co-directed by J.A. Jiménez, F. Naveira, and G. Rolán. For family audiences, Filmoteca Júnior will screen El Havre by Aki Kaurismäki (day 9).
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