REHEARSAL & REPETITION

A group of friends perform an experiment about space and duration, body and dance. One of them jumps from a structure repeatedly, others just watch, while someone else inhabits the house under construction. The group grows bigger and gathers around a collective performance that resembles a ritual. Shot in 16mm in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film was born out of my involvement with performance art in the classes on Juan Onofri. This choreographer and performer worked with names such as Lucrecia Martel and Santiago Mitre.

Igor Dimitri
I completed the MA of Documentary Cinema in the Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My first film “Recycled Madonna” is about an anarchist collective in the city of Porto, Portugal, and our process in squatting a primary school The project ended up involving most people of that area, and being a main news nationwide. The film was part of the first edition of the non-competitive section “Urgent Cinema” at DocLisboa in 2012, and was considered one of the few Portuguese anarchist films films from recent years. My second film “The Closest Star to the Sun” is a travel diary shot in Bolivia with a VHS-C camera, about the act of looking trough one’s foreign eyes. The film won the New Cinema Competition at Porto/Post/Doc Festival in Porto, in 2017. My previous film “Salsa”, premiered in Rotterdam in 2020. I am a member of the collective “A Torre”, in Porto, an artist run analog lab that is also a part of the Filmlabs network.