Márgenes Futura Award
MÁRGENES FUTURA AWARD TO GERARD ORTÍN CASTELLVÍ
Since 2021, the Festival has awarded the Márgenes Futura Award, an honorary prize aimed at recognizing and promoting the careers of emerging filmmakers with strong potential.
This year, the Márgenes Festival honors an artist and filmmaker distinguished by a deeply essayistic approach. Their artistic and cinematic practice stands out for its bold and inventive perspective, embodying the festival’s spirit.
The award recognizes the filmmaker's innovative approach and skill in merging conceptual and political themes through a visually poetic style, blending traditional and contemporary film techniques to craft thought-provoking works that examine the intricate relationship between humanity and its environment.
Throughout his career, Ortín has distinguished himself by uniting the rigor of academic research with the creative exploration of audiovisual language. His narratives strike a paradigmatic balance, where form always serves the ethical discourse of his practice. This fusion of the poetic and the scientific—at times bordering on humor—is consistently precise, offering insights into the elusive concept of postnature.
Similarly, his awareness and commitment to the issues within consumer society have inspired a unique exploration of the complex relationships between humanity and the natural world. From his early works, which offered a poetic vision of nature as both a mental and physical space, to his recent trilogy examining the capitalist food regime, the artist delves into themes such as landscape, animality, geology, botany, the telluric, domestication, and technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture. He further investigates intersections between automation, human labor, and the aesthetics and politics of food.
With this award, we honor Gerard Ortín Castellví’s dedication to a cinema that challenges and reinterprets our world, encouraging us to look beyond the visible and question our relationship with the environment we inhabit.
This year, the Márgenes Festival honors an artist and filmmaker distinguished by a deeply essayistic approach. Their artistic and cinematic practice stands out for its bold and inventive perspective, embodying the festival’s spirit.
The award recognizes the filmmaker's innovative approach and skill in merging conceptual and political themes through a visually poetic style, blending traditional and contemporary film techniques to craft thought-provoking works that examine the intricate relationship between humanity and its environment.
Throughout his career, Ortín has distinguished himself by uniting the rigor of academic research with the creative exploration of audiovisual language. His narratives strike a paradigmatic balance, where form always serves the ethical discourse of his practice. This fusion of the poetic and the scientific—at times bordering on humor—is consistently precise, offering insights into the elusive concept of postnature.
Similarly, his awareness and commitment to the issues within consumer society have inspired a unique exploration of the complex relationships between humanity and the natural world. From his early works, which offered a poetic vision of nature as both a mental and physical space, to his recent trilogy examining the capitalist food regime, the artist delves into themes such as landscape, animality, geology, botany, the telluric, domestication, and technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture. He further investigates intersections between automation, human labor, and the aesthetics and politics of food.
With this award, we honor Gerard Ortín Castellví’s dedication to a cinema that challenges and reinterprets our world, encouraging us to look beyond the visible and question our relationship with the environment we inhabit.