As soon as I got accepted in school — HEAD, Geneva — I began a process that comes much more from experimental cinema — to free oneself from standard structures, a cinema shot on film, that seeks texture, that has other elements. … I did a lot of documentary work because for me, there was always a need to work as close to reality as possible, to build that idea of a documentary, that I’m not only questioning the image, but the structure of how things get done, films’ production systems. Moving away an industrial narrative by building a narrative that belongs to you, that seeks what you know. … [Read more...] about TIFF Filmmaker Lab Talent Jorge Cadena Talks About Indigenous Queer Project ‘Tropical Malady’
