Notre Tempo/ Our Tempo (2013) film, 13:00 min. and PASOS/ STEPS (2011) film 24:00 min.

Notre Tempo/ Our Tempo is a film based on a series of meetings with three siblings of a Romanian family. They live in a caravan in camps in the north of Roubaix (FR). For one year, we worked with them on writing texts, oral transmission, and dance as a means of expression. Their daily life is subject to insecurity, evictions from camps, administrative problems, health, among others. Our tempo is a moment that they give to us with simplicity and dignity.

PASOS/ STEPS: walking is the first gesture of independence that we learn in life. We all walk in different ways and for different reasons. The path traces the movement. The path itself is in motion. Movement can also be a turning point. I’ve met women living with HIV in Chile… My research has shown that sexism and domestic violence are factors that increasingly contribute to the conditions for women to contract the virus. I proposed to Ema to learn how to dance tango with this idea in mind. Death, abandonment, and lost love are some of the recurrent motifs in tango that people living with HIV also must face throughout their illness.

Biography

Lorena Zilleruelo (1974, Chile) lives and works in Paris. She holds a degree from Studio des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, École Supérieure d’Art Paris-Cergy and Sorbonne. Zilleruelo works with unofficial and unwritten historical and personal stories, similar to her own experiences. She often calls for political action. Her film Notre Tempo/ Our Tempo was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2014) and selected for FID Marseille. Zilleruelo also directed Mémoire, réponse (2005), Ici c’est ailleurs (2008), Élan et élégie (2009), and Cartographie de Voix Ourvières. Her films and installations have been presented and exhibited in several art galleries and institutions internationally.