7 pm Samuel Alarcón’s 2018 documentary traces the last days of the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, exiled, buried, and almost forgotten in Bordeaux, and the mystery surrounding his body. Years after his death, when Goya’s remains were exhumed to be returned to Spain, it was discovered that someone had stolen the head of the famous painter. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 82 minutes; not rated. Free community event
7 pm From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the public streets still remain. In three insightful conversations with female friends, collaborators, and high school students, Xiana do Teixeiro’s 2018 film Tódallas mulleres que coñezo seeks a discourse on fear that is not frightening, a discourse on violence that is not violent—a tale of universal sisterhood. 2018; Galician with English subtitles; 71 minutes; not rated. Free community event
7 pm Marina Lameiro’s 2018 documentary offers a portrait of a disenchanted generation, as four young people ponder their current situations, their futures, and a social system in which they do not seem to fit. Young and Beautiful was filmed over the course of two years, at several locations in the Basque Country, Navarre, Catalonia, and Valencia, with the director accompanying her friends through the events of their daily lives. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 72 minutes; not rated. Free community event
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
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
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
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
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.
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…)
