Melisa Aller: Las instancias del fuego

Los Angeles Filmforum presents

Melisa Aller: Las Instancias del Fuego (The Instances of Fire)

 

Sunday Nov 12, 2023, 7:30 pm

At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057

In person: Melissa Aller

Tickets: $15 general, $8 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members

Masks are highly recommended at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95.

Dedicated to Bérénice Reynaud

Melisa Aller was born and lives in Buenos Aires (1979, Argentina). She is an experimental filmmaker and music composer. She has two degrees, in Political Science and Law, at University of Buenos Aires. And she studied filmmaking and video at CIEVYC. She is specialist in Social and Genre topics. In last fifteen years she has been spent working particularly in the super 8 format, filming and editing all on camera without any intervention from the digital. In 2015, she shot her first feature film “Las Decisiones Formales” about Trans genre identity. This film is edited in camera and chronologically using 22 rolls of film, spliced together.

Aller has presented in Los Angeles previously, at the Echo Park Film Center in 2017.  Filmforum also included one of her films as part of Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin American: Urban Harmonies/Dissonant Cities later in 2017.