Audiovisual Session 'With a Little Help from My Friends', with Sally Gutiérrez Dewar

An invitation to artist Sally Gutiérrez Dewar to place one of her most recent works in dialogue with pieces by other artists and activists. A session that encourages us to imagine collectively and to think about the audiovisual beyond its usual limits. Films that suggest unexpected connections and activate resonances across diverse geographies, histories, and sensibilities.

The programme proposes an ephemeral and plural encounter in which each work contributes a singular perspective and, together, they build a shared space for reflection and discovery. It embodies the spirit of the artist herself: working from the common ground, trusting in unexpected crossings, and allowing images to invent their own shared language.

Programme:

Application (Sally Gutiérrez Dewar, 2026, 18')
The film combines excerpts from the plea presented by South Africa before the International Court of Justice in December 2023 with images of rivers and oceans filmed over several years. Initially conceived as an attentive listening to nature and to the elemental rhythms of water, these images take on new meaning in light of the news of the extermination of the Palestinian people.

Westerwald: Eine Heimsuchung (Sandra Schäfer, 2021, 43’)
A cinematic essay on the transformation of a rural German region through a dialogue between past and present. Taking as its starting point August Sander’s series of portraits of Westerwald farmers, Sandra Schäfer confronts that historical gaze with her own contemporary perspective on the territory where she grew up. The film explores how the landscape, ways of life, and agricultural practices have changed, and how these transformations are inscribed in images.

Ládano, brillo de micacita (Mario Espliego, 2025, 20')
The project takes its name from labdanum, an aromatic resin extracted from the rockrose plant, as a metaphor for a territory layered with memory. Through a journey across La Alcarria and the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, the work explores overlapping historical, biographical, and political times in an area now marked by depopulation. Once a place of hermitic retreat in the Middle Ages and of anti-fascist resistance during the Spanish Civil War, the landscape appears as a living archive where latent pasts persist.

> Introduction and post-screening discussion with the artists.