Javier Izquierdo
Biography
Javier Izquierdo (Quito, 1977) is a filmmaker who has written and directed, amoung others the documentary Augusto San Miguel ha muerto ayer/Augusto San Miguel died yesterday, about the pioneer of Ecuadorian cinema. Izquierdo has made the mockumentary Un secreto en la caja/A secret in the box (Best Latin American director and FIPRESCI prize in BAFICI 2017), about fictitious writer Marcelo Chiriboga. He has also made the feature film Panamá, a political story based on real events.
Izquierdo is, as a filmmaker and artist, interested in unveiling unknown artistic figures, exploring the frontiers between documentary and fiction and giving new use to archival films, like in his found footage project Barajas (WIP), that mixes materials from four Latin American writers who died in a plane crash in 1983.
For osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION, Izquierdo has made Crimes of the Future: a film about a film about a book about a city, that deals with the film adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s 1890 novel Hunger (orig. title ‘Sult’) from 1966 by the Danish film director Henning Carlsen.
Interview with Javier Izquierdo
Essay
Roskva Koritzinsky is a Norwegian writer and critic. She debuted in 2013 with the short story collection Her inne et sted (In here somewhere). Her third book, Jeg har ennå ikke sett verden (I haven't seen the world yet) was shortlisted for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2018.
Koritzinsky both writes about, and is one of the interview subjects in Javier Izquierdo's Film Crimes of the Future.
Read the essay here:
MY FIRST MASTERPIECE
Hear an excerpt from the essay read by the biennial's very own House Manager Erikka Fyrand (Norwegian only)