PARAÍSO
FACULTY OF FINE ARTS – UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
Filmoteca de Galicia | Friday June 7th | 11:00 am | Free entry to all venues until full capacity. It will not be possible to enter the venues after the screening has started.
The “Paradise” section brings together Fine Arts students attracted by the creative potential of the moving image, contributing their first suggestive discoveries. The gathering came about as a stimulus and a way to build bridges, and will take place this year in two sessions in which students from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Salamanca and the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra from the University of Vigo will be showing their films and fostering debate about them. Furthermore, this year the doors will also be opened to experimentation with analogue, artisanal and ecological cinema thanks to a workshop given by Franci Durán, Phil Hoffman and Robin Riad.
EL VÍDEO MÁS GRANDE DEL MUNDO
Miguel Blázquez Martín | 2024 | Spain | HD | 10 min
Aurora Carlota, Alanne, Juan David, Uriel and Stephen are friends, acquaintances, or friends of acquaintances of mine. All of them will take part from their countries in a video that shows that they are not as far away as it seems. (Miguel Blázquez Martín)
VOLAR DEL NIDO PARA NO SER DESPLUMADA
Sara Fénix | 2024 | Spain | HD | 11 min
Synopsis: As if looking through a window, we lose ourselves among childhood memories, paying special attention to the evolution of the emotional relationships between a daughter and her mother in an intimate way full of metaphors. (Sara Fénix)
YO, EL HADA ROSA
Cristina Hispán Fuentes | 2024 | Spain | HD | 12 min
With this audiovisual work I describe everything surrounding me from a personal perspective: the things I focus on, my tastes, my hobbies, my traumas, my fears and the people who support me and who have supported me throughout my life. It is a documentary self-portrait; what comes out of it is myself, many of my facets, but above all I show the little things; I talk about the day-to-day. This work deals with all those matters through humour and childishness. It is a tribute to everything that has constructed me as a person: tradition, my Andalusian roots, the Barbie films, religion and “cute things”. It is a goodbye, a farewell, an embrace, a tear; it is my pupils. (Cristina Hispán Fuentes)
VIAJE POR EL SUBCONSCIENTE
Diana Amalia Escobar Fajardo | 2024 | Spain | HD | 8 min
Viaje por el subconsciente (Journey through the subconscious) takes the viewer on a journey to abstraction through a series of lights and shapes that become distorted and out of focus; sensations similar to those that some people experience every day just before going to sleep, known as hypnagogia. This film breaks with conventional narrative forms, taking the audience on a journey through the unconscious and a dream world.
MAMÁ NO PUEDE DECIRME NEGRO
Martín Morales | 2024 | Spain | HD | 5 min
Mum can’t call me “black”; not because she is forbidden to do so, but because she can’t accept it. We normalise the way we refer to people so much that we forget and ignore the way it affects the construction of an individual. (Martín Morales)
FIRST STEPS: FLYING AROUND THE WORLD, FROM PINK TO BLACK
FACULTY OF FINE ARTS – UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
The programme of works made by audiovisual students from the Degree in Fine Arts and the Master’s in Production and Artistic Practices at the University of Salamanca for the Paradise section are this year putting forward fascinating trips around the world via the broad potential of working with the moving image.
The most ambitious project in this regard, despite the overwhelming simplicity of the proposal, is The biggest video in the world by Miguel Blázquez Martín. Conceived based on collaborative dynamics, it proposes a tour of diverse cultures based on views achieved thanks to the connectivity of today’s technology. However, everyday places and objects can also be revealing: the work I, the pink fairy by Cristina Hispán Fuentes transforms the ordinary into a “place of wonder” where one can find connections, sometimes lit up by a spark of humour, with the world of childhood. A different desire to transform reality is shown by Journey through the subconscious by Diana Amalia Escobar Fajardo, which invites us to establish a suggestive altered sensory relationship with our surroundings.
The world also imposes a distance, both temporally and spatially, which is necessary to differentiate and even dissent from that (family) place one lived in until recently. This occurs in Mum can’t call me black by Martín Morales, which puts forward an interesting and lively approach based on home photographs to the problematic consideration within Peruvian identity of an unaccepted blackness. For its part, Flying from the nest so as not to be plucked by Sara Fénix, using a more intimate tone, is based on an evocative recurring image (in which birds live) to place childhood warmly and delicately in a bygone time that nevertheless refuses to disappear.
All of them are adventures that invite one to enjoy the ability of the moving image to propose views of the world in ways as diverse as they are fascinating.
Laura Gómez Vaquero
Film researcher and programmer. Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts (USAL)