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A film essay in which Victoria Linares Villegas, an only daughter, tries to understand her relationship with her mother by parsing through old photographs and new footage, looking at her relationship with her mother and her mother's relationship with her own mother.
During Mexico's colonial period, an ailing Spanish priest will have to endure in his own body the native rituals that he has been hunting down.
Picacho must prepare for an important boxing match and a crucial interview while struggling with the strange, emotionally charged relationship he has with his trainer. The film blends sport, surrealism, and romance through an experimental visual style.
Luis is the second short film in the Lucía, Luis y el lobo (Lucia, Luis and the Wolf) series. Luis speaks about his life in the forest and his relationship with Lucía while appearing as a charcoal drawing on the walls of a room filled with broken objects that gradually return to their proper places.
Lucía is the 1st short video of the 2-part series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo” (”Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”). The video was shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera.
MASTERCLASS – ARCHITECTURAL FRACTALS by JULIUS HORSTHUIS (NL). “I’ll take the audience through some of the fractal landscapes. We will look at some of the characteristic features of those fractals, almost like we’re watching architectural facets. What creates those features? What is it about fractal math that makes it so engaging? What else is there to explore?” – Julius Horsthuis
Generative art uses code and algorithms in a creative and artisanal manner to generate infinite animations that never repeat. But how? In her masterclass, Anna Carreras will introduce us to the peculiarities and characteristics of this medium, illustrating it with her personal research and body of work. The talk offers an exploration of how algorithms and code, used in an artisanal and creative way, can generate unique and infinite abstract animated pieces.The presentation concludes with a Q&A session open to audience participation.
MASTERCLASS – THE PLEASURE OF MOVEMENT. Wrangling an Infant Technology by JOSÉ-MANUEL XAVIER (PT), with the kind translation of SANDRA RAMOS. “The pleasure of movement is what I feel when I bring strokes, lines, and dots to life. My work method is identical to my way of walking through nature. I advance, step by step, through unexpected paths to discover the unimaginable.”
MASTERCLASS – ALTERED DIMENSIONS. Abstract Audiovisual Works of Art by ZSOLT GYENES (HU). Gyenes’ talk focuses on Sound / Image connections; on what Synchrony, Asynchrony and “Synchresis” actually mean.
Masterclass with one of the undisputed geniuses of animated film and creator of Aardman Animations, the studio responsible for such unforgettable characters as Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and others, Peter Lord at Cineteca Madrid.
A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.
A melancholic physician in a Mexican hospital who prefers drinking to doctoring is transformed by the visit of a psychedelic saint. He begins to perform miracles on an odd assortment of hospital patients.
