["English - English"] LA FAMILY
MÁRGENES LA FAMILY: COLOR PAPEL Y TIJERA
A section dedicated to children and families, designed to bring cinema and audiovisual creation closer to younger audiences and promote audiovisual literacy by blending entertainment and education.
This edition features experimental animation filmmaker Elena Duque and her playful exploration of everyday objects, in a program that fuses cinema, animation, and drawing.
Saturday, November 29 – 12:00 | La Casa Encendida
A screening of short films shot on Super 8, combining homemade animation, collage, and painting directly on film to explore places, objects, and recipes through play and rhythm. Thanks to animation, these films become a parade of colors and shapes filled with humor and dynamism. Through a selection of works, the activity combines projection and hands-on experimentation. Elena will accompany the session to explain her visual tricks and showcase the materials she works with.
Sunday, November 30 – 12:00 | La Casa Encendida
An expanded cinema performance in 16mm in which the filmmaker will share various tricks for painting through four simple lessons: “For Sonia,” an introduction to geometric abstraction and color inspired by Sonia Delaunay; “Still Life,” to master the most versatile genre in painting; “Action Painting,” following in the footsteps of Joan Mitchell (and not so much Pollock); and “Seated Portrait,” to discover that painting a cubist portrait isn’t as hard as it seems.
Elena Duque is a Spanish-Venezuelan filmmaker, programmer, critic, and professor. As a filmmaker, her work moves between animation and collage, incorporating analog formats and working methods to explore themes such as identity and belonging through visual exercises centered around places, objects, and textures. she has created several experimental and animated pieces shown at festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam, and Mar del Plata, among many others. Her work is part of the catalogs of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), Hamaca, and the Xcèntric Archive at CCCB in Barcelona. She programs for (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña and has previously curated for the Seville European Film Festival. She teaches at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and teaches workshops at various institutions and master’s programs.
