Ines G. Aparicio
17 May 2021 – 30 September 2021
Inés G. Aparicio has a degree in fine arts and is specialized in education and development cooperation.
In continuous movement. Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Porto and Madrid are some of the cities that he most liked to live in, but above all places there is the Sahara. The Sahrawi refugee camps are where he has spent the longest time developing his personal and professional activity. He has been a teacher at the Abidin Kaid Saleh Film School, participated in filming, been part of the FiSahara team and the Bubisher project.
In 2020 she returned to Asturias and lives in Gijón, she works as an editorial layout designer and in the creation of audiovisual material, and she also participates in the MUSOC coordinating team. Meanwhile, she combines her activism in different social causes with the development of personal and collective projects that range from radio to collage, including photography and film. Most of her works are linked to migration and memory recording, highlighting her co-direction of the film Leyuad.
Project in residence
Cantar un batallón
Cantar un batallón is a 2D animated short film in production, below I present the synopsis of the film:
Inés has always had a particular relationship with her grandmother Esperanza and during a visit to her hometown, Arriondas, she asks her to talk to her about her youth. The grandmother opens the magic box of her memories determined to tell details of her life that she had never told before.
The photographs from the family archive come to life with the cadence of the notes of a song that is broadcast on the radio: Batallón de Modistillas, a cuplé from the late 19th century written by Álvaro Retana and performed by Lilian de Celis. Hearing it, Esperanza’s heart lights up. From the darkness of time, characters from an unexpected world appear, sons and founders of a liberal, libertine, promiscuous and fantasy Spain, where divas, homosexuals, and adventurers invented fashions and postures.
Lilian de Celis, cupletist, and Álvaro Retana, the most handsome novelist in the world, are the co-stars of this story and those in charge of taking us on a tour of Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela in those years. With them we discovered nightlife from the Thirties to the Seventies; a world of vaudeville, theaters, scandalous stages, free women and incredible characters, unjustly forgotten.
It is a journey of music and cabaret, but also of freedom, the same freedom that permeates the protagonists. For Inés, this trip becomes an adventure that makes her dream of a freer and libertarian future in which joy and equality are the basis of human relationships around the world.
