Instituto Cervantes

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Sin Dios ni Santa María (2015)

12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Sin Dios ni Santa María takes as its starting point the historical rereading of the figure of the witch, an investigation that led its directors to texts like Calibán y la bruja, by Silvia Federici. It is an analysis that unearths the dynamics of social expropriation directed over the body, knowledge, and reproduction of women for centuries. Free Community Event.

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Instituto Cervantes Film Series: A rapa das bestas (2017)

12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In her first films, Jaione Camborda chose to shoot in super-8 as a sign of identity, with confidence in the image, materiality and lyrical grain. Throughout her filmography, the filmmaker reflects from an ethnographic perspective on man’s relationship with the animal, violence, and the atavistic, as we see reflected in her pieces Proba de axilidade (2015), A rapa das bestas (2017) and Videogramas #4 (2022). Free Community Event

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Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Super 8 (1996)

12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here David Domingo is one of the renovators of experimental cinema in Spain. Continuing the legacy of Iván Zulueta and absolute reference of analog cinema in super-8 and 16 mm (the format in which he shot his first films), Domingo is the owner of a unique imaginary in which pop references, visual experiments of all kinds, animations (from frame-by-frame animation to visual collage), domestic epic and a dazzling and colorful aesthetic converge. Free Community Event.

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The Runaways: Living Composers from Spain in New York City

6:00 pm AMP Concerts and Cervantes Institute Albuquerque presents The Runaways: Living Composers from Spain in New York City. The Runaways is a solo piano and vocal performance of works by contemporary composers from Spain who have expanded their creative borders by moving to New York City. Rosa Torres-Pardo (piano) and Anna Tonna (mezzo soprano) will explore these captivating crossroads through the music of contemporary Spanish-American composers Sonia Megías, Octavio Vazquez and Ricardo Llorca. The concert will be preceded by a talk by composer Ricardo Llorca, who

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Cervantes Film Series: Ezohikoak

12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation Through a work with archival photographs, the animator Alejandra Bueno creates a reinterpretation of the presence of women in Basque culture, which combines the manipulation and intervention of these images with the oral enumeration of the functions traditionally attributed to women. The result is a provocative display of how to assume and reverse the elements of tradition and its representation to show its fissures and to open those

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Cervantes Film Series: Dejarse crecer el cuerpo

12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation As part of her thesis project, filmmaker Andrea Gudiño proposed this animated documentary that brings us closer to the issue of sexual binarism. The possibility of using the experiences and personal testimonies of real people who do not appear in the image but are generated from an original use of materials and cinematographic techniques, achieves an enormous visual and didactic impact, one of the most effective resources in

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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

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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

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Cervantes Film Series: Garelako

12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Cervantes Film Series: Zinegoak 20th anniversary. LGTBIQ+ Animation With a song by Eneko Sagardoy as a thematic and narrative pillar, the writer and animator Usue Egia proposes a journey through various characters and stories that illustrate a call for freedom to everyone to define themselves and feel as they wish. Garelako, by Eneko Sagardoy: “The gray sky will not suffocate us. We will flee to the sun. They want to put straw hearts on us.

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