đź“… 28th May, 7pm
📍 Grassmarket Community Picture House, 86 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh EH1 2QA
This event is free but it is still necessary to book.
El Cine Soy Yo / The Moving-Picture Man (newly restored 4k)
Luis Armando Roche | 1977 | 94min
After practicing various professions, Jacinto (AsdrĂşbal Melendez) decides to become a movie projectionist. This versatile man converts his truck into a travelling cinema shaped like a whale in order to bring films across Venezuela, sharing films with people in rural villages. El cine soy yo is one of the most representative films of Venezuelan cinema and a celebration of the power of cinema in the most unimaginable circumstances.
“El Cine Soy Yo is a very evocative film, universal to those free-spirited souls who love a journey and the cinema experience. It’s explored at different levels, including fragments of Mexican movies and previous short films by Roche, with even a crew in the middle of production appearing inside the film with a cameo of Luis Armando Roche.
For Venezuelans, this film can offer a connection with childhood memories, with those family holidays around the country exploring our warm salty beaches, the areas of the rainforest, and the Andean paramos. How much have we changed?” – Cinema Rediscovered film curator Lorena Pino Montilla