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ELENA ARROYO is a filmmaker and performer whose work spans the space between cinema and performance. She combines her artistic practice with research and specialized consultancy. She directs the space known as La Fragua Bruta, where she has been experimenting with new pedagogies of creation for years. She accompanies a significant number of artistic projects, from their initial development through to their final showcase. In parallel, she works through her body, investigating the ties between creation and somatisation, as well as the connections between the visual and performing arts. Her recent works are video-performative, and she has been invited to speak on them at the Madrid Art Fair (Spain, 2025), New York University (USA), the University of East Anglia (UK), and the International Video Art Festival of Camagüey (Cuba). Notable among these is ‘Del Origen’, a solo performance selected for DT, the Amsterdam International Butoh Festival (2023), and PROYECTOR’22. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Film Directing from Cuba’s EICTV, is a specialist in Photography and Contemporary Art (UPV), and remains an eternal Butoh dancer. Find out more here about Elena´s work here.
PATRICIA DELSO is an artist and filmmaker based in Belgium. For many years, she has explored self-referential cinema, poetry film, experimental cinema, and expanded cinema, bridging these forms to shape a distinct cinematic voice of her own. Her current medium is analogue film.Her work has garnered awards and been screened at numerous festivals, including Documenta Madrid, the Engauge Experimental Film Festival, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and the New Hope Film Festival. She has also contributed to group exhibitions at venues such as MoMA and the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Baxton Gallery in Brussels.For some time now, Patricia has undertaken artist residencies at analogue film laboratories, including Mono No Aware in New York, the Echo Park Film Centre in Los Angeles, Casa do Xisto in Portugal, and Laboratorio AVS / LAV in Madrid.Patricia holds a BA in Audiovisual Communication (UC3M, Madrid), a BSc in Image and Sound Engineering (UPM, Madrid), and an MFA in Film Directing from the Edinburgh College of Art (UK). Find out more about Patricia’s work here.
LOLA MAYO is a writer, screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker. She is the co-producer and co-writer of all films by Spanish auteur Javier Rebollo. Notable among them are Woman Without Piano (2009)—winner of the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Best Picture at the Los Angeles Film Festival—and Lola (2006), which earned a Goya nomination for Best New Director, alongside the FIPRESCI Prize and Best First Feature awards at both the Guadalajara and Seoul International Film Festivals. As a writer and director of feature-length documentaries for TVE (Spanish National Television), her work has garnered prestigious accolades, including the Queen Sofía Journalism Award. She teaches documentary and fiction screenwriting at the Madrid Film Institute, ECAM, and Jaume I University in Castellón, as well as the EICTV in Cuba, where she is returning for her fourth teaching tenure.Recently, she served on the advisory committee for the Sundance Script Lab (organised by the Sundance Institute), assessing and developing professional feature screenplays. Explore her screenwriting work here.
IRENE GUTIÉRREZ is a filmmaker and researcher with a degree in Documentary Film from the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Cuba). She holds a Master’s in Spanish Cinema Studies and is a PhD candidate at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where she also teaches alongside her faculty roles at the EICTV, the Madrid Film Institute, and the Lens School of Visual Arts.She has directed Border Diaries (25 min, Spain–Morocco, 2012), Hotel Nueva Isla (70 min, Cuba–Spain, 2014), Exile Diaries (43 min, Spain, 2019), and Between Dog and Wolf (75 min, Cuba–Spain, 2020)—four works that incorporate archival material across various formats and origins.Her documentaries have received support from the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, Ibermedia, ICAA, and RTVC, and have screened at over fifty international festivals, including the Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), and MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. Ranging from intimate portraiture to essayistic documentary, her films and research explore the political tensions between the individual and the nation through the lens of landscape. Find out more here.
NOEMÍ GARCÍA is an audiovisual maker, educator, and researcher. She is a Lecturer in Moving Image Practice and Theory at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UCM, Madrid) and a film programmer specialising in documentary cinema. She has worked for international film festivals such as Documenta Madrid and cultural institutions including Cineteca Matadero.She has an extensive background in teaching and project consultancy for documentary film. Her work focuses on collaborative artistic practices and reflexive, first-person filmmaking. Find out more about Noemí’s work here.
JAVIER REBOLLO is a filmmaker and cultural activist. He has directed the feature films Woman Without Piano (2009), Lola (Ce que je sais de Lola), and The Dead Man and Being Happy (El muerto y ser feliz). Among other accolades, he was awarded the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2009.Find out more about Javier’s work here.
VALENTINA CORBELLA is an actress and a core member of the KYU theatre company, led by director and acting coach Ernesto Correa. Since 2018, through rigorous and regular practice with KYU, Valentina has embodied the company’s training within her physical technique while absorbing its philosophy into her mind and spirit. Her trajectory includes training at Lab Teatro in Madrid alongside Andrés Acevedo, with the SCOT Company in Japan, and with SITI Company, as well as an initiation into Butoh under Jonathan Martineau. Training alongside such formidable practitioners has provided a springboard to forge her own approach—practices that have led her to “walk like a cat along narrow ledges, with chasms on either side. Vertigo and expansion. Softening the skin through strength. Breathing in wonder.” She continues her regular training alongside Colombian actress Lucía Reyes. Mindful that actor training is an unfolding, lifelong process, Valentina also coaches actors, evolving together with them as they navigate these shared inquiries.
BRENDA BOYER (Alicante, 1984) holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication alongside Master’s degrees in Documentary Film Directing and Production, and in Contemporary Audiovisual Creation and Experimentation (LAV). She is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the body, movement, and the image as vehicles for exploring tactile and phenomenological dimensions, as well as the body as a site of resonance. Her work has screened at Documenta Madrid, Cinespaña, Intermediaciones, the Muestra Itinerante Colección Privada, and the International Festival of Peripheral Cinema (S8), among others. She is currently developing the performative activation of tortuga, an analogue film piece created during the BAICC International Artistic Residency (LIFT and AC/E). Find out more about Brenda’s work here.
EVA TIRADO is an actress, performer, and creator, as well as a movement researcher and visual artist. Since 2002, she has worked across theatre, film, and television. In the performing arts, her work centres on physical theatre, experimental theatre, and performance. Trained in various dance styles, she specialises in classical Indian Kathak dance and its traditional staging, having completed her studies in India under the Prayag Sangeet Samiti system. Since 2017, she has focused her research and creative practice on the intersections between movement, self-image, and the moving image, developing a body of work grounded in post-dramatic theatre, auto-fiction, video creation, and video art. Using this language, she has created diverse pieces for her own initiatives, for collaborative artistic projects, and for local councils and public institutions. She combines her practice as an actress and creator with her role coordinating the AEC (Spanish Association of Cinematographers). Find out more about Eva’s work here.
MANUEL MUÑOZ holds a degree in Information Sciences from the University of Seville. Following his studies, he relocated to London, where he produced his first short films and videos in an amateur spirit. He subsequently moved to Cuba to attend the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), graduating in 2004 with a specialization in film editing. Since then, he has co-written and edited notable films including White on White (Blanco en blanco, 2019), This Film Is About Me (2019), Human Rights (Derechos del hombre, 2018), Dead Slow Ahead (2015), Slimane (2013), Arraianos (2012), and Sunset (Ocaso, 2010). He has also directed several short films, such as Bird (Pájaro, 2014), With the Wind (Con el viento, 2009), and Path (Sendero, 2008). The Sea Stares at Us from Afar (El mar nos mira de lejos), which premiered at the Berlinale in 2017, is his debut feature film. He alternates his filmmaking practice with teaching, leading workshops since 2010 at institutions such as the EICTV (Cuba) and Altos de Chavón (Dominican Republic). Find out more about Manolo’s work here.
HELENA GIRÓN has co-directed, alongside Samuel M. Delgado, the films Irmandade, Plus Ultra, Burning Mountains That Spew Fire (Montañas ardientes que vomitan fuego), and No God Nor Santa María (Sin Dios ni Santa María), as well as the installations and performance works Gods Are Present Here Too (También aquí los dioses están presentes), There Is No Land Beyond (No hay tierra más allá), and Listening Exercises (Ejercicios de escucha). Her debut feature film, They Carry Death (Eles transportan a morte), was selected for the Ikusmira Berriak development programme hosted by the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Tabakalera. After graduating with a degree in Audiovisual Communication, she completed Master’s degrees in Film and TV Screenwriting at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and in Film Editing at ESCAC. She regularly teaches at ECAM, EQZE (Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola), and IFIC. Find out more about Helena’s work here.
SAMUEL DELGADO has co-directed, alongside Helena Girón, the films Irmandade, Plus Ultra, Burning Mountains That Spew Fire (Montañas ardientes que vomitan fuego), and Neither God Nor Santa María (Sin Dios ni Santa María), as well as the installations and performance works Gods Are Present Here Too (También aquí los dioses están presentes), There Is No Land Beyond (No hay tierra más allá), and Listening Exercises (Ejercicios de escucha). His debut feature film, They Carry Death (Eles transportan a morte), was selected for the Ikusmira Berriak development programme hosted by the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Tabakalera.He regularly teaches at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Cuba), ECAM, EQZE (Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola), the Madrid Film Institute, and IFIC. Find out more about Samuel’s work here.
GUILLERMO PEYDRÓ is a filmmaker and holds a PhD in Art History. His films have screened at major museums including the Louvre and the Museo Reina Sofía, as well as at film festivals worldwide. Since 2016, he has also developed expanded cinema exhibition projects in collaboration with French sculptor Jeanne de Petriconi. He has served as a programmer for the Punto de Vista and Documenta Madrid film festivals, and has taught courses at universities and film schools across Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Ecuador. His book, Cinema on Art: From the Dramatisation of Painting to the Film-Essay (Shangrila, 2019), is the culmination of a decade of research across international archives exploring the possibilities of filming the visual arts. Find out more about Guillermo’s work here.
EMILIO PASCUAL is a sound artist and sound designer working across audiovisual, performing arts, and music projects. His practice explores listening, public space, and modes of communication as raw material for sound pieces, actions, installations, and video. He specialises in location sound recording for documentaries, collaborating with broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, Sky, ARTE, and RTVE, as well as live music productions and television programming—including Later… with Jools Holland. As a sound designer, he works with artists including Niño de Elche, Luz Arcas, Raül Refree, Pedro G. Romero, Isaki Lacuesta, Alondra Bentley, Ylia, Albert Coma, and Sumrrá. His recent work includes sound designs and installations presented at major institutions and festivals such as the BoCA Biennial, the São Paulo Biennial, Klankenbos, Museo Reina Sofía, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Teatre Lliure, Mercat de les Flors, Teatro Español, Teatro de la Abadía, Centro Conde Duque, Sónar Festival, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, C3A, CA2M, and the Centro Dramático Nacional. He also lectures in sound at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and the TAI University School of Arts. Find out more about Emilio’s work here.
DAMIÁN S. RODRÍGUEZ. “I was born via forceps on 12 December 1984—a hook-based technique using what look like two massive salad spoons that the doctor uses to guide the baby’s head out. It’s a practice banned nowadays due to the risks it poses to both mother and child. I didn’t want to leave, and I emerged with a broken collarbone; perhaps that event shaped my resistant nature and my reluctance to leave warm, cosy places. I’m a Sagittarius and slightly dyslexic—though you won’t notice it here, as spellcheck lends a hand. I’m also left-handed: I kick, grab, paint, and film, all with that side of my body. Born in Uruguay, which to ‘everyone’ means being Argentine until proven otherwise. I am based in Barcelona, but I’ve lived in Lima and Buenos Aires. I like moving and starting afresh.I take photos, film people doing things, play ‘myself’, and paint weird faces on scavenged surfaces. I’m interested in plastic experimentation within each discipline, probing their possibilities. With Lerulerufilms I use a camera, and with Rumián, a paintbrush. I am this bundle of intentions, split into sections.”
MARÍA JESÚS GONZÁLEZ is an actress, performance maker, and producer working at the intersection of body, voice, and space, approaching sound as a living material that anchors dramaturgical structure and physical presence. She holds an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Master’s in Documentary Film from the Madrid Film Institute. Her career fuses physical theatre, sound research, and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (practitioner and instructor since 2008). Since 2016, she has led an ongoing body of research in sound theatre, presented across platforms including Santiago a Mil and Resistencia en Línea (Chile), Forma y Sonido (Uruguay), Sono-Sororas (Brazil and Argentina), Sur Aural (Bolivia), and the Imbabura Arts Festival (Ecuador). As a performer, she has collaborated with UK-based creators such as Julia Bardsley, Oscar Murillo, and Patrizia Paolini. She combines creative work with international tour production and the direction of large-scale, site-specific urban interventions. Her screen work has been awarded Best Performance at the Chile Film Festival and Best Music Video Direction at Festival Cine B.