Today Friday 19 June at 21.30 in the Cines del Sur marquee (Plaza Bibarrambla), the works created by the participants in the Live Cinema Workshop held over the last few days as part of the Granada Cines del Sur Festival will be shown.
The Live 
Cinema Workshop was run by the Asociación Cultural Miga and took place between 15 and 19 June, always in afternoon sessions (from 17:00 to 22:00). This Association, formed in 2004 and located in Granada, regularly includes all types of artistic representation in its workshops: DJs, VJs, live music, net art, graphic design, experimental video and electoacoustics are all included to develop, feed and expand ideas and projects.
The new tools in the field of computers for sound and visual creation that the Live Cinema Workshop has investigated include the development of software and creative techniques, making training in these fields an added value for the artistic creation and trying to provide a complete idea of the different facets that are involved in an activity like video creation in real time or VJ-ing. A series of links were created between different techniques for obtaining images in movement and current digital tools, their editing and manipulation as well as the final preparation for using them live.
Additionally, the workshop included a review, in the form of a historical introduction, to the figure of the video jockey (VJ), an approach to video language and the digital image from the use of resources for the production of material, an analysis of specific tools for live visual creation and a study of editing and appropriate staging. Finally, special emphasis was placed on audio-visual synchronisation, offering students the knowledge necessary to make totally synchronised audiovisual works to be shown in public, as all will be able to see in the exhibition that will take place on Friday night.
The photographer and director of the Centro Andaluz de Fotografía, Pablo Juliá, will visit the Granada Cines del Sur Festival on Thursday to hold a conversation with the Lebanese photojournalist Dalia Khamissy. The meeting will take place at 21:30 in the Andalusia Filmoteca Exhibition Room.
The work of this renowned photojournalist follows the traces of the summer 2006 Israeli offensive in the Lebanese landscape, depicting the spaces that were invaded by war one day and then abandoned.
The exhibition of her work, Abandoned Spaces, organised by the Festival with the collaboration of the Centro andaluz de Fotografía, has been open since last 29 May and can be visited until 5 July at the Andalusia Filmoteca Exhibition Room (Calle Profesor Sainz Cantero, Number 6, Granada).
On Thursday 18th at 19:30 in the Sala Val del Omar of the Andalusia Filmoteca, Luis Miranda, a specialist in Japanese film, will present the TransCine section of the third edition of Cines del Sur about the multi-faceted Yukio Mishima.
Mishima was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1925 into a family that descended from samurais. His first novel, with some autobiographical passages, appeared in 1948: Confessions of a Mask. Part of the Second Generation of post-war writers, Mishima was notable for his literary works like The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and the tetrology, Sea of Fertility, in addition to his work renewing the Japanese traditional theatre genre, Noh. He also worked as an essayist and directed the short film Yûkoku or The Rite of Love and Death. In 1968, he formed a samurai-style community that doubled as an urban militia, the Shield Society, whose aim was to return tradition to Japan. When he was unable to accomplish his goal, Yukio Mishima committed seppuku (hara-kiri) in 1970.
After the presentation, The Blue Speck of the Unknown by Gabriel Santamarina (Mexico / Spain, 2007) and Yûkoku or The Rite of Love and Death (Japan, 1965) by Mishima himself will be shown.
Continuing Cines del Sur’s Open Screenings shows, on Thursday June 18th at 22:00 in the Palacio de los Córdova (Cuesta del Chapiz), the singer and director Fermín Muguruza and the diector Javier Corcuera will present their latest film, Checkpoint Rock: Songs from Palestine.
The film takes us on a journey to a territory which is the object of the whole world’s attention, but about which almost nothing is known.
What music gives a voice and melody to this mythic place? Who are its most representative performers and how do they live? What do they think about the unique fate that they are destined to live and how do they address it in their lyrics and tunes?
The film ranges from the advertisements and neon of Tel Aviv to the poverty and despair of the occupied territories on the West Bank, to the large concentration camp that the Gaza Strip has become. With Checkpoint Rock: Songs from Palestine, Fermín Muguruza and Javier Corcuera present a journey that will change our view of this people in conflict.
