Celia Viada
3 February 2020 – 15 July 2020
Celia Viada Caso is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist.
His works range between non-fiction and experimental cinema, video installation, music video and live practice. In them he explores the recovery and resignification of images to connect memory, body and territory.
She has a degree in Anthropology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Goldsmiths in London and has completed the Master of Creative Documentary at the UPF in Barcelona. With her first feature film “La Calle del Agua” (2020), she won 7 awards at its premiere at the Xixón International Film Festival, including the FIPRESCI Award for Best Direction in the Tierres en Trance section and the Audience Award. She is currently developing her second film “A summer without birds”, awarded with the New Directors Award of the Principality of Asturias (2021).
Project in residence
La calle del agua
The Memory of Water is based on the recovered archive of an unknown Asturian photographer, Benjamina Miyar, to reflect on the life of images, investigating their materiality and their ephemeral nature, the limits between reality and the imaginary and questioning the process of generate memory. The project is complemented by the film in development La Calle del Agua and explores how to combine film, photography and video installation.
This project proposes a game of glances between two women and different times. It will make the figure and work of this photographer visible and imagine fragments of anonymous lives through the legacy of images made over more than forty years and that survive today in different media.
From degraded photographic plates to photographs taken with smartphones, this work invites us to confront photography as an instrument to think about the world and have a critical view of the current era of images.
Project selected in the Call for Artistic Residencies 2020
