Three retrospective cycles: two single-artist pieces —Frans van de Staak: The World as Archipelago and Anne-Marie Faux: The River Under the Tongue—, the first to be dedicated to their artists internationally and nationally, respectively, and Adiós a los animales, part four of the natural histories of documentary cinema curated and presented by Miriam Martín.
Goodbye to animals is, as the title suggests, a film series about the disappearance of animals. Of wild animals, of course; livestock and pets are not disappearing. Yes, you are here, amid the "sixth mass extinction", the first that is not due to a natural phenomenon. Over five sessions we will see different kinds of relationship between humans and animals (from first encounters, amazed or fearful, to impure and simple exploitation, taking in games, ritual and fable), and also the life of different animals with no direct relations with humans (in an anthropised world all of them have indirect relations).
First international retrospective of the work of Frans van de Staak (Amsterdam 1943-2001), showcasing eleven of his twenty-five films, accompanied by the publication of the first monograph on his cinema.
Existing somewhere between the satirical and the philosophical, the films by van de Staak play with language in such a way that recomposes the traditional elements of cinema and deconstructs our perception of the everyday. His cinema extracts the symbolic potential of bodies, spaces and all their possible interactions; actions, gestures, movements, remarks, etc. "The only heir to Dziga Vertov" (Jean-Marie Straub, 2001).
An almost complete retrospective, and the first ever in Spain, of the works by Anne-marie Faux (Montfermeil, 1959). Melancholic and reflexive, her work is put together like a series of filmed diaries. In them, the voice of the film-maker stops on details that inspire monologues about the history of places and about her own history.