Instituto Cervantes
Oralidad Festival: Andrea Cote Botero
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting6:00 pm Colombian poet Andrea Cote Botero will read a selection of conversational poems from her books Puerto Calcinado and En las praderas del fin del mundo and will discuss with the public the role of the listener in the construction of a poetics of ruin in contemporary subjectivity. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between (more...)
Oralidad Festival: Lara Manzanares & Joe Hayes
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:30 pm Lara Manzanares, a bilingual singer-songwriter with roots in Tierra Amarilla, will perform a joint show with master storyteller Joe Hayes. The performance will begin with a folk narration by Hayes aimed at adult and children, to be followed by a performance by the singer-songwriter. This show weaves together the past, present, and future of the oral tradition as well as the performers' passion for blending cultures and the roots of New Mexico. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Iberia (2005)
Virtual12 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Don't miss the latest online film series from Instituto Cervantes, focusing on the life and work of the internationally renowned director Carlos Saura. Saura's 2005 film Iberia traces a series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz's "Iberia" suite. The film received the Goya Award for Best Cinematography/Mejor Fotografía in 2006. 2005 | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 1 hour 39 minutes | Not Rated Free Community Event This documentary film, Saura continues in his line of (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Soñando un lugar
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities Alfonso Kint and Lucía Camón are two artists who embarked on the adventure of moving to a village in the province of Zaragoza to try a different life. Their project Pueblos en Arte was born from this bet, which managed to attract other people with a similar vital profile in an attempt to achieve a better way of life and to generate other creative synergies in (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: 150 i una grossa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities The description of community life is not always easy for cinema, which tends to focus on characters. However, this film bets on making a collective story where the inhabitants of a village will have to make decisions that will radically change their lives. The choral portrait offered by this documentary is testimony to a common thread based on the commitment of a group of people from (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Los saldos
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Geolocalizaciones y nuevas ruralidades | Geolocations and new ruralities The transfer of knowledge between parents and their descendants was the only means by which rural families maintained their traditions, until the arrival of new technologies transformed their habits. Migrations also broke with this logic, although they never dispossessed the inhabitants of this ancestral knowledge. In Los saldos, a father and a son will have to face an evidence that work and coexistence are bringing to (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Azaletik azalera
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With this award-winning short film, Mel Arranz has managed to place himself within the interesting panorama of animation made in the Basque Country. His piece, colored in various shades of black and white, began to take shape during his artistic stay in Mexico and is a visual experiment: his short film manages to demonstrate a bodily intimacy through the detail shots of the touching of skins, hardly (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mesa
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With a captivating work drawing on a black and white photographic image, director Adrian Garcia Gomez delves into memory to orient his imagination regarding identity and the past in the environment of the western and Mexican cinema of the 1940's and 50's. This short film follows its predecessor Mikveh (2016), and shares that film's sensitive attunement regarding its formality and concerns, which the Californian creator will continue (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Beti Bezperako Koplak
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation The animators included in Ageda Kopla Taldea – a group of twenty artists coordinated by Bego Vicarioapproach– weave a fascinating story that starts from the tradition of the bertsolaris, the Basque poets who recite their improvised verses, to bring us closer to the history of cultural and popular traditions at a time when their meanings and contents are being redefined. This work is part of the stream of (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Thara
12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Planned as a mixed media work, Thara combines a documentary style with a narrative built through animation to achieve greater expressive freedom, only achievable through this technique. The short film shows the story of those transsexual people who are forced to work at night and reveals how difficult the lives of these women can be in Latin American countries. Free Community Event The Cervantes Institute maintains its (more...)