• Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de Ignacio Pardo

    12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Ignacio Pardo is one of the pioneers of video art in Galicia and in Spain, utilizing digital animation in work revolving around the classic themes of Eros and Thanatos. Frequently recurring motifs include decay, suffering, and pain, as well as sexuality as a natural […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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; […]