Come join Sergio Oksman in a screening of both Notes on the Other and A Story for the Modlins, with an extended conversation about the shorts, his work, and the long process of “finding” a film.

The nature of a reenactment is for a person, place, or event to be scripted and performed in the style of the original. It takes a reality—or the memory of the reality—and represents it slightly a skewed, resulting in a fictional document of the non-fictional. Reenactment becomes a story about being ‘someone else’.

—Oksman, Notes on the Other

In Sergio Oksman’s critically acclaimed shorts, Notes on the Other and A Story for the Modlins, the line separating fiction and non-fiction within personal and social histories are blurred. Whether it is an article written by Hemingway from the perspective of a man about to be gored by the bulls as in Notes on the Other, or the retelling of the sad story of a family by an outsider who only holds vague fragments of their lives as in A Story for the Modlins, both of these films address the idea of someone looking into a life by reenacting that life.

Together, these short works communicate and explore one another, with Notes of the Other acting as an essay or study about reenactment and fictionalization, and A Story for the Modlins acting as a product of the filmmaker’s own reenactment and fictionalization.

Buy tickets online. $15. The Story for the Modlins won Best Documentary Short at the latest Goya Awards Ceremony. View Sergio Oskman's SPAINRED profile.

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