Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
The New Spanish Films program presents the work of three young artists, the Spanish-Venezuelan Elena Duque, the Venezuelan living in Spain Valentina Alvarado Matos, and the Spaniard Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas who filmed many of his works in Japan.
In recent years, Spain has been gathering many enthusiasts, paying special attention to experimental cinema and analogue formats of creation and exhibition. Film magazines, critics, experimental festivals, alternative exhibitors, programmers, cinematheques, galleries, creative and teaching laboratories investigate and present other possible histories of cinema that do not marginalize alternative forms of expression, also consolidating an environment in which production by analogue means is possible.
We propose to observe Spain as a space of transit, based on films, artists and cameras that move around. Three emerging filmmakers who share a passion for analogue formats (especially Super 8), but who present very distinct and personal ways of making films, in which practice and experimentation are conditions of expression, resulting in the creation and discovery of different procedures and simple forms.
The Program:
VALDEDIÓS (Valdediós) | Elena Duque | Spain, 2019 | 4 min.
PRIVATE COLLECTION (Private Collection) | Elena Duque | Spain, 2020 | 13 min.
THE SEA COMPILED THE COAST (El Mar Peinó a la Orilla) | Valentina Alvarado Matos | Spain, 2019 | 5 min.
PROPERTIES OF A PARALLEL SPHERE (Properties of a Parallel Sphere | Valentina Alvarado Matos | Spain, 2020 | 17 min.
TWELVE SEASONAL FILMS | Jorge Suárez Quiñones-Rivas | Spain, 2020 | 39 min.
MEIHÔDÔ (Meihôdô) | Jorge Suárez Quiñones-Rivas |Spain, 2020 | 11 min.
Guest Curated by Gabriel Falcão
Gabriel Linhares Falcão is a Brazilian critic, curator, filmmaker, professor and researcher. He is currently a master's student at PPGCine at UFF, with research focused on Experimental Cinema, Jacques Rivette and Éric Rohmer. He writes for Multiplot! magazine and maintains the blog https://beloeosentimento.home.blog .
NEW SPANISH FILMS PROGRAM (New Spanish Films Program) | Elena Duque, Valentina Alvarado Matos, Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas | Curated by Gabriel Falcão | Spain, 2019, 2020 | 90 min.