ROBAR A RODIN  

                           (Stealing Rodin)

 

 

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Titre Original/ Original Title:  ROBAR A RODIN (ING: STEALING RODIN)

Année/Year: 2018

Durée/Runnign Time: 79 minutes

Pyas/ Countries: Chile, France

Produit par/Produced by :Maria Paz Gonzales/Maria una vez (Chile)

Corproduit pas/Co-Producer: Ceresa Films/Adriana Ferrarese

Réalisation/Directed by : Cristobal Valenzuela

Distribution Internationale/International Distribution: Journeyman Pictures

 

Financé par/Funded By: Corfo (Chile) and National Cinema Fund of Chile. 

Presented at the "Pitching du réel" of the festival Visions du réel 2016

 

 

Synopsis

 

Un matin de Juin 2005, les gardiens du Musée Chilien des beaux arts, remarquent que le « Torse d’Adèle », la sculpture d ‘Auguste Rodin qui vaut des millions de dollars, n’est plus à son emplacement.

C’est le début de ce qui deviendra le plus grand braquage de l’histoire Chilienne.

En effet, seulement 24 heures après les faits le torse est ramené par un jeune étudiant en art qui déclarera que son acte était une performance artistique.

Ainsi l’histoire de l’un des plus grands artistes mondiaux se croise  avec celle d’un anonyme qui dans ce cas fait surgir de multiples interrogations sur le rôle de l’art. 

 

A cold morning in June 2005, the guards of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts discovered that the sculpture of Auguste Rodin, the “Torso of Adele”, had been subtracted from the main exhibition room. Because of the mastery in the robbery, detectives’ suspects  pointed to some criminal and organized group specialized in works of art. A worldwide alert was activated. Surprisingly, the piece of art was returned the next day by a young man who claimed that he found it stranded in an area near the museum. Nobody could understand how it got there. After severe interrogations, however, Luis Onfray (21), the young man who was studying art, surprised again the authorities acknowledging that it was him, with no help at all, who had subtracted the sculpture.  An umbrella of criticism covered the young man. He was accused of irretrievably damaging the image of the country in an action that was described as a teenage blunder. The turning of the case continued the next day when, facing the court of justice, the defense attorney indicated that the robbery was not a crime but a performance of art by which Onfray was trying to prove that “the work of art would be more present by not being there”. This was the inflection point for a police case that confronted, for several months, lawyers, artists, theorists and institutions that were forced to discuss about the state of contemporary art.

 

 

 

 

 

CRISTOBAL VALENZUELA

 

Cristobal Valenzuela est réalisateur et monteur.Depuis 2008, il écrit et réalise plusieurs courts métrages comme « Los primeros brujos fueron los padres » (2006) et « Año Nuevo » (2011- Visions du réel 2016 Focus Chili).Il travaille actuellement comme monteur et scénariste pour plusieurs projets télévisés au Chili. « ROBAR A RODIN » est son premier long-métrage.

 

Cristobal Valenzuela is director and editor.

Since 2008 he’s written and directed several shorts film  as “Los primeros brujos fueron los padres” (2006) and  “Año Nuevo” (2011- Visions du réel 2016 Focus Chile).

He currently works as an editor and screen writer for several TV projects in Chile. 

“Stealing Rodin” is his first long-feature film. 

 

 PRIX ET FESTIVALS/ FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

 

-Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse (France) Special Jury Award.

 

-É Tudo Verdade/its All True (Brasil), Best Latin American Documentary

 

-DocsBarcelona Valparaíso International Film Festival (Chile). Distribution Award. DocBarcelona Jury.

 

-Santiago International Film Festival SANFIC (Chile). Special Jury Award.

 

-Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar (Chile).  Best Latin American Documentary.

 

-DocsBarcelona (Spain) Best Iberoamerican Documentary

 

-Louisiana Film festival (USA). New Voices New Visions Award

 

-Festival Internacional de Cine de de Guadalajara (Mexico) Special Jury FEISAL Award.

 

-Festival de Cine de Rengo (Chile) Best chilean documentary Award.

 

-OnArts Film Festival (Poland)  Special Jury Award.

 

-DocsMx (Mexico) Best Documentary “Confesiones y Penitencias” Section.

 

-Festival de Cine de Tucumán (Argentina). Special Jury Award.

 

 

 

 

Festival Selections: 

 

   Yamagata International Film Festival (Japan)
 
   Palm Spring International Film Festival (USA) 
 
   Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
 
   DocsLisboa (Portugal). Heart Beat Section.
 
   RIDM. Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Motréal (Canada).
 
   Le Festival Ojoloco du cinéma ibérique et latino-américain de Grenoble (France)
 

  Festival Internacional de Cine de Santiago, Sanfic (Chile)

 

•   Festival Internacional de Viña del Mar Competencia Lationamericana (Chile).

 

•   É Tudo Verdade/Its all true (Brasil) 

 

•   DocsBarcelona (España) Premio Latitud 

 

•  Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse (France) 

 

•   Louisiana Film festival (USA). 

 

• Festival Internacional de Cine de de Guadalajara (México) 

 

•  DocsMx (México) 

 

• Festival de Cine DocsBarcelona Valparaíso (Chile).

 

•   Festival de Cine de Rengo. 

 

•   Festival de Cine de Tucumán (Argentina) 

 

•   Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago, FIDOCS .

 

•   Antofadocs International Film Festival. 

 

•   Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires BAFICI  (Argentina)

 

•   Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay 

 

•   Festival Internacional de Cine de Lima (Perú). 

 

•   Festival de Cine Chileno de Quilpue. 

 

•   Festival de Cine Chileno Contemporáneo de Olmue y Limache (Chile) 

 

•   Festival On Arts (Poland)

 

•   Doqumenta, Festival de Cine Documental de Queréntaro (México) 

 

•   Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de la Plata (Argentina)

 

   Master of Art Film Festival (Bulgaria) 

 

•   FICSUR: Festival Internacional de Cine de los países del Sur del Mundo (Argentina) 

 

•   Festival CINEUROPA (Spain) - Santiago de Compostela.

 

•   Perth Independent Latino Film Festival (Australia). 

 

Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival (Greece)