Halcyon Gallery, London
Exhibition: Ernesto Cánovas: ‘Overlapping View’
02 September – 20 September 2015
24 – 30 September 2015. Once again and for the 11th year, the London Spanish Film Festival returns with a selection of some of the best recent films from Spain including feature films as well as documentaries and shorts. This year some of the feature films (marked **) will be in competition and the winner will be decided by a Jury: Art Curator Andrew Dempsey, Vanity Fair’s journalist Bridget Arsenault, film producer Frank Mannion and actors Nickolas Grace and Charles Dance.
‘Las heridas del viento’ is a tense and moving exploration of the devastating effect that unrequited love can have upon an individual. Juan (Kiti Mánver) and David (Dani Muriel) are strangers with little in common. The death of Rafael, David’s patriarchal and unsentimental father, brings the two men together and forces them to confront the reality of their relationship with him and the way it has shaped their identity. Photos © Noela Roibás
Documentary cinema is returning to Scotland with the second instalment of Iberodocs, the Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival. The festival aims to foster intercultural integration and to encourage audiences to reflect upon the concept of identity. And judging from this year’s programme, all manner of individual and collective identities will feature upon the screens of the Filmhouse in Edinburgh and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow from May 14th to 24th.
In celebration of the inauguration of Iberodocs’ second season, we have arranged to meet with one of the festival’s foremost figures and a vital player in making the event a reality: Isabel Moura Mendes. An arts manager with a heritage that is half Cape Verdean, half Portuguese, she is this year’s programme curator for the Lusophone strand of films at the Iberodocs festival.
Directed and Photography by Pau Pascual Galbis, Edition and Post-production by Pau Pascual Galbis, Music by Nikka, Sound by José Antonio Flores, Make up by Eloisa Gómez, Costume: Mariccona, Production by Pau Pascual Galbis, Actress: Sandra Gómez, Ingrid Heinz, Génesis Pascacio, Olga Mathey, Adriana Saldaña, Julieta Mayor and Elisabeth Pang, Thanks to Gelitzly Pacheco Montero, Hana Chaki, Ana Karen Morgana, Ezechiel Hascoet, Bryan Sánchez, Betty Bustillo, Ana Ferral and Yesenia González, Production: SEP-Prodep and Collaboration by Faculty of Arts, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas UNICACH (Mexico). 2014 © Tuxtla Gtz.
Where does the process of designing a product end? How important is a product’s packaging — or is it what’s on the inside that counts? Do you judge a book by its cover? Have you ever bought a new item of clothing and liked the label so much that you kept it?
Adapted and directed by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artistic Director Laurie Sansom and designed by Spanish stage designer Ana Inés Jabares Pita (winner of the 2013 Linbury Prize for Stage Design), ‘The Driver’s Seat’ is the first theatrical presentation of Muriel Spark’s psychologically thrilling 1970 short novel which plays at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and tramway, Glasgow from 13 June 2015.
When New Wave music in America detached itself from punk rock in the 70s, there were many who started to label it. At the time it was bands like Blondie and The B-52´s who started something that was defined by the attitude and style of a generation rather than by music itself.
Spanish architects SelgasCano are designing the 15th Serpentine Pavilion. The award-winning studio, headed by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, is the first Spanish architecture practice to be asked to design the temporary Pavilion on the Serpentine’s lawn in London’s Kensington Gardens.