Celia Viada Case
1 May 2023 – 31 January 2024
(Madrid, 1991)
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
Un verano sin pájaros
A threat beats in the summer calm: a woman’s body seems to be trapped in her own image.
Thus begins A summer without birds, a film constructed from fragments of the life of a single woman over the course of a decade. The material comes from domestic films shot on super 8 in which she is always the protagonist, observer and observed. The film is an intimate story in which the presence of the female body and its transformations are central.
The dreamlike and experimental nature of the images and sound evoke the presence of other women from different periods whose stories seem to emerge through small gestures of everyday life. To look at oneself is perhaps to look at all of us.
A threat beats in the summer calm: a woman’s body seems to be trapped in her own image.
