FILM SERIES CARTE BLANCHE TO ESTRELLA DE DIEGO: 'CUERPOS, MÁQUINAS, VISIONES'

What connections can cinema and art forge today, at a time when images flow endlessly and cultural practices are reshaped by new memories, conflicts, and desires for transformation? To explore these questions, we present two carte blanches dedicated to Estrella de Diego and Germán Labrador, two authors, researchers, and curators whose careers challenge disciplinary boundaries and have profoundly renewed our relationship with images and their histories.

Estrella de Diego has researched modernity, representation, gender, and visual archives. Her work interrogates the fictions that sustain our societies and attends to the forms of the invisible that traverse contemporary culture. Through attentive and critical writing, de Diego has shown that images are not mere objects of contemplation, but territories where power, desire, and memory are negotiated.

This carte blanche is, above all, an invitation. Not only to watch films, but to reflect on the limits of art and cinema.

Programme:

TUESDAY, MARCH 3. Sala Plató, 8:00 pm.
The Eye in a Wild State: The First Avant-Garde.
Programme: Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929) 21 min; Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, 1924) 19 min; Retour à la raison (Man Ray, 1923) 3 min; Emak Bakia (Man Ray, 1926) 19 min; L’Étoile de mer (Man Ray, 1928) 16 min; and The Mysteries of the Château of Dice (Man Ray, 1929) 20 min.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. Sala Azcona, 7:00 pm.
The Mystery of Picasso (H. G. Clouzot) 75 min.
A unique documentary that records Pablo Picasso’s creative process in real time. Thanks to a technical device that allows viewers to see the brushstroke through the paper, the film turns painting into a cinematic event and reflects on the mystery of the act of creation.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5. Sala Azcona, 7:00 pm.
Choreographer-Filmmakers: The Cinema of Maya Deren and Yvonne Rainer.
Preceded by a lecture by Estrella de Diego, “Choreographer-Filmmakers.” Screenings: Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, 1943) 14 min; Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1945) 2 min; Hand Movie (Yvonne Rainer, 1966) 7 min; and Trio A (Yvonne Rainer, 1978) 11 min.