RADICAL TENDERNESS
The "Radical Tenderness" emerges as a corporal poetic manifesto to think and activate our emotions. An authentic proposal of self-reflection and knowledge, as well as a respite to reconcile with ourselves. Dani is a performance artist and activist for the rights of sexual diversity, who through her artistic work invites us to reflect on the severity and damage to which we submit to resist and try to be consistent with our struggles and personal resistances.
Magno Morales was born in 1990 in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico. He entered the Bachelor in Management and Promotion of the Arts, with a focus on cinematography, at the University of Arts and Sciences of Chiapas (UNICACH).
In 2014, he became a teacher at the Technical Secondary School of Tapilula, Chiapas, teaching the subjects of art and history. During 2014, Magno decides to take audiovisual production workshops, has taken documentary photography Where photographic works and graphic graphics have been present in countries such as Spain, Argentina, Guatemala and in several states of the Mexican Republic.
In 2017 he completed the Diploma in Production and Documentary Production, taught by the San Cristóbal Film School, where his first documentary short film, "Ternura radical", was made.
"Radical Tenderness" is in a reminder that shows us that we have to think about ourselves and that the search for a healthy community also contributes with our emotional stability, it is the same feeling that many of the people we have been able to share time with Dani, the protagonist of this short film.
As a director I can say that this project was conceived thanks to reading the manifesto, but getting its translation into the cinematographic language was a task in conjunction with the crew. There were evenings and nights of loaded coffee, with an improvised bond paper slate to understand how the story worked and what story to tell. It should be noted, that despite having no idea how to build it; if it was clear from the beginning that poetry had to be present. I believe that it is fair poetics that tells the story, composing with collage, various ways of resisting, of intimacy and critical thinking.
