“Parsi” by Eduardo Williams
Friday 24 – Sunday 26 January 2025 – Cinema Hotel Castell, Zuoz
Played on a loop
SMAFF X Engadine Art Talks (E.A.T.)
No es (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, whose constant writing process extends over a lifetime. The text of the poem, to which verses are added over days, months and years, can cover anything: images, people, memories, landscapes, phrases, ideas, etc. With this list of “what seems to be but isn’t” ringing in its head, Eduardo Williams’s film Parsi finds itself in a perpetual movement through spaces and around people. We are taken in a breathless ride through bustling neighborhoods, from person to person, thrown, dipped under water, rushed from image to image, creating in the process yet another poem which is caressed by, crashes into, and spins next to No es.
THE DIRECTOR | Eduardo Williams
Eduardo Williams (b.1987, Argentina) is a filmmaker and artist whose works explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for shared relations and spontaneous adventures within both physical and virtual networks.
Williams’ shorts films Pude ver un puma (2011) and Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013) premiered at Cinéfondation and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, followed by Tôi quên rồi! (2014) which had it’s premiere at FID Marseille. His first feature, El auge del humano (2016), won the Pardo d’oro at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival and was shown at Toronto IFF – Wavelengths, New York FF – Projections, Tate Modern and other festivals. His last works, Parsi (2018) and Un Gif Larguísimo (2022) had their premiere at Berlinale – Forum Expanded, and his last feature film El auge del humano 3 had it’s premiere at Locarno Film Festival.
In 2019 he received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. The Film Study Center at Harvard University awarded him a Robert E. Fulton III Fellowship in Nonfiction Filmmaking for 2020-21.
2018 · BUI, AR, CH · ES/EN · 23’