{"id":12163,"date":"2023-05-26T18:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:11:16","slug":"una-mujer-reflejada-a-reflected-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/2023\/05\/una-mujer-reflejada-a-reflected-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"169 Seconds: Una mujer reflejada \/ A Reflected Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"169 Seconds: Una mujer reflejada \/ A Reflected Woman\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/830585666?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:40px\">In this installment of 169 Seconds, made in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Danish film journal 16:9, I collect mirror and reflection sequences from the 2017 Chilean film <em>Una mujer fant\u00e1stica<\/em> \/ <em>A Fantastic Woman<\/em> (directed by Sebasti\u00e1n Lelio, based on a script by Lelio and Gonzalo Maza), and ponder their significance in this narrative of queer melancholia and mourning. The film stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress and mezzo-soprano, as the recently bereaved protagonist Marina, and it is Vega who, in the closing moments of the film, sings the song that accompanies the audiovisual essay: \u2018Ombra mai fu&#8217; (\u2018Never was a shade\u2026&#8217;), the opening aria from the 1738 opera <em>Serse<\/em> by Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Concept and script by Catherine Grant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Editing by Catherine Grant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>169 SECONDS. In this installment of our jubilee series of 169 Seconds, Catherine Grant collects mirror and reflection sequences from the 2017 Chilean film <em>Una mujer fant&aacute;stica<\/em> and ponders their significance in this narrative of queer melancholia and mourning. The film stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress and mezzo-soprano, who, in the closing moments of the film, sings the song that accompanies the essay: &ldquo;Ombra mai fu&rdquo;, the opening aria from H&auml;ndel&rsquo;s 1738 opera <em>Serse<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":12166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,227],"tags":[417,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}