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
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…)
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…)
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 element in an ongoing life cycle, and his films display a humor that reflects an acceptance of this cycle and an ability to find joy in living. The short works screened include (more…)
7 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday The Sandia Performing Arts Company (SPAC) presents the film version of their recent production of Reasons. Directed by Ruben Muller, Reasons is the dark and disturbing story of Elvino Luis Mulares, a Mexican American World War II Army veteran who survived the war but still carries the psychological scars, spanning a 40-year period of his life as an alcoholic with a growing family in mid-century New Mexico. Mulares, the narrator of his story, has now died, and begins speaking to an (more…)
8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In her 2021 documentary El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra, Tamara García Iglesias traces the life and work of Alicia D’Amico, following her artistic trajectory through Buenos Aires, Paris, and Geneva in search of “shadows” of her presence. One of the best-known photographers of her time, D’Amico worked from the late 1950s until her death in Buenos Aires in 2001. She was recognized as a feminist and lesbian pioneer, and in her later, less (more…)
8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Alma, the protagonist of Santiago León Cuéllar’s 2018 film of the same name, has just entered a new high school, and her classmate Victor invites her to a party. The ongoing changes in her body, and her hidden desires, lead her to face her inner fears and begin the process of self-acceptance—loving herself as she is. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 17 minutes; not rated. Free community event
8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Snap, a 2018 documentary by Chilean filmmakers Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira, is the most experimental film in this series—composed through fragments of the audiovisual content of social media, and offering a mosaic of individual reflections on sexual and gender identity. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated. Free community event
8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Director Enric Ribes’ 2017 documentary Cantando desde las azoteas is an emotional and tender tribute to its protagonist, Gilda Love, who was baptized Eduardo Enrique Gustavo Francisco, but never felt that he was any of these men. As the last drag queen in Barcelona’s former “barrio chino” (the historical neighborhood of El Raval), he still takes the stage every night, at the age of 90, under the name he adopted as homage to Rita Hayworth’s signature (more…)
