1 April 2022 – 30 July 2022
Pablo Casanueva begins his relationship with the image through painting, continues with photography and continues in cinema. His main works are: the film 8 films about war (2021), selected at the Asturias Plastic Arts Exhibition and at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival in Pamplona; the photographic and audiovisual exhibition Xente (2021), selected in the Sala Borrón and in the Catalog of Plastic and Visual Arts of the Principality of Asturias; the short films La seleconstruction of memory (2017) and Escontra la casualidá (2018), both premiered at the Xixón International Film Festival or the musical short film Mensaxe pa la mocedá del Imperiu (2019) based on the work by Xaime Martínez ( Moza National Poetry Prize 2019). The works can also be highlighted: Conserveres (2017), video creation present at the LAN festival (Bilbao); At the end of this journey (2017), short film awarded the Interrail FICX 55 Award; the documentary and web series El Cobayu (2018); the video creation Llaberintu (2019) presented at the FICX or the documentary piece Filme urxente sobre La Plaza (2018).
He became known in 2013 with the premiere of Bernabé, his first feature film and the first in the Asturian language. With him, she was present at the Xixón International Film Festival, at the Europa Cinema Festival and at the Lorient Interceltic Festival, among several screenings in Asturias. He is part of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, the Language Policy Advisory Council of the Principality of Asturies and is linked to various social platforms. He studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Burgos and at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao.
Project in residence
The Lunas, linked to the anarchist movement, suffered the civil war and Franco’s repression from various perspectives (evacuation, exile, prison, execution). Currently, without testimonies or eyewitnesses, the only tools to construct and know their history are the spaces, the images they left and the documentary archive. The director’s journey is mixed with the real course of the war and the post-war period. The film returns to the same places: Barcelona, Santander, Celanova Prison, Camposancos, Girona, France. The family photographic background, the voice-over, the historical documentation, the painting and the reading are some of the formal elements that support the film. At the same time, the restoration of some 16th century paintings, discovered after the burning of a church in 1936, delve into the delicate and slow process of recovering the past. The project is related to two previous short films by the director: The Sele Construction of Memory and Escontra la casualidá. In them, a first approach to Los Luna is carried out, visiting the family house and the Common Grave of the Uviéu Cemetery.
Project selected in the I Call for Artistic Residencies 2022