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  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Lume

    12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Lume (Fire) is one of the most recent works by Alberte Pagán, a specialist in experimental cinema, and part of Pagán’s “Superficies” (“Surfaces”) series, in which the director plays with juxtaposing still photographs of natural elements with the movement of his story. In Lume, an intense, reddish chromatic palette, reminiscent of fire, emphasizes the rage shown in the audiovisual images, projected on a photograph of roots. The live sound in the piece is from a demonstration (more...)

  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Inside the Microtubule

    12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In Inside the Microtubule, Judith Adataberna, a visual artist specializing in photography, video installation, and experimental film, explores the mechanisms of memory through the increasingly fragile memories of her 99-year-old grandmother. Images from a mountain climb at night during a snowstorm, together with images of the neurons and synapses that form the physical basis of our memories, reinforce the director’s reflections on memory, fear, and solitude. 2018; Gallego with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated. Free (more...)

  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Reality

    12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Visual artist and filmmaker David Fidalgo Omil uses animation to create his humorous and critical pieces. Reality explores the violence and absurdity of reality televisión, as comedy turns to tragedy in this satirical look at human misery. 2020; Spanish; 8 minutes; suitable for viewers 16 and older. Free community event In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival (more...)

  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de DSK

    12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE This anthology showcases the diverse work of DSK, a collective formed by Juan Lesta and Belén Montero.  The artists, pioneers of video art in Galicia, were active for 20 years, creating pieces that experiment with hybridization among different disciplines and play with humor and irony as well as aesthetics. The short works screened include M09, Vida, Twin Power, Crépitation, O tempo perdido, aTienda, Morphing, Miro la vida pasar, Square Religion, Vide, Pedra e auga, and Estiven (more...)

  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Llamada a la escuela

    12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Carme Nogueira, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher, has an extensive background in both creative and academic fields. In Llamada a la escuela, she juxtaposes school archives and testimonies of children who attended the Las Hurdes school in the early 1930s with a passage from Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan, as well as drawings created by students today. 2016; Spanish with English subtitles; 3 minutes; not rated. In September, thanks to a (more...)

  • Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), El evangelio de las maravilla

    6 pm (opening reception at 5 pm) The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival (more...)

  • Film: Videocreación en Galicia, _oito

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In his experimental video art piece _oito, Galician audiovisual artist Berio Molina explores and plays with different sounds, including the human voice, in a unique venue. The sloping structure of Clifton Rocks, an underground railroad station located inside Avon Gorge, a hill in England, creates small amphitheatres, accentuating the resonance of sounds both inside and outside the space. 2019; Gallego; 7 minutes; not rated. Free community event In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival (more...)

  • Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), Las razones del corazón

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    6 pm  In a re-interpretation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary set in present-day Mexico City, Emilia, a middle-class housewife, feels burdened by the mediocrity of her life. One day, she loses the two things that make it all bearable—her lover and her credit card—and comes to a fateful decision. 2011; Spanish with English subtitles; 128 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since (more...)

  • Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), La calle de la amargura

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    6 pm Two aging prostitutes, burdened by marital and financial problems, drug and rob twin midgets—doubles for professional luchadores—in an effort to make ends meet. But the eyedrops with which they dose their victims prove fatal, and they murder them unintentionally. Based on a true story, La calle de la amargura takes an unflinching look at the mean streets of Mexico City. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 100 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and (more...)

  • Film: Día de Cine Español/Day of Spanish Cinema, El viaje a ninguna parte

    12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE El viaje a ninguna parte won the first Goya Awards (Spain’s main national annual film awards) ever given, for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, in 1987. 1986; Spanish with English subtitles; 134 minutes; not rated. Free community event October 6 will mark the establishment of the Day of Spanish Cinema, recognizing the important role of filmmakers in the country’s cultural and social life, as well as the value of this artistic (more...)