Documentaries César Manrique Foundation

Centro Cultural de España en México presents the screening of films produced by the Fundación César Manrique and based on the island of Lanzarote itself, homeland of the multifaceted Manrique: The screenings will end with a question and answer session with Miguel G. Morales, Spanish filmmaker and visual artist born in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

His work is situated on the periphery of non-fiction with a strong eclectic, investigative and essayistic character. The loneliness, the recovery of Historical Memory, the decontextualization of the archive at the service of power, the invisibility of the working class, environmental activism or the inquiry into the polysemic meaning of the image. He alternates his film work with video creations, collaborations with visual or performing artists and audiovisual exhibition design.

Utopia Manrique

Director: Miguel G. Morales

Documentary / 2022 / Spain / 60 minutes

Synopsis: Portrays the sculptor César Manrique through an unusual look. Beauty, environmentalism and art of living merge in a hymn to nature, images and the pleasure of living. Film and photographic archives (some unpublished) are used as a resource to reveal a complex subjectivity. It highlights a lifestyle, a way of being of a singular artist and a way of creative relationship with an essential territory, Lanzarote.

From an island

Direction, script and editing: José Luis Guerin

Art. Director: Miguel G. Morales

Documentary / 2019 / Spain / 26 minutes

Synopsis: A story of eras, which begins with the emergence of the island of Lanzarote itself and concludes with the present of the new travelers of the 21st century who arrive to the coasts emerged from the lava of the deep sea and the sand transported by the wind from the African desert, and who are not, precisely, tourists.

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