Guillermo G. Peydró
12 February 2014 – 26 February 2014
Filmmaker and art historian, he has been a programmer at the Greenpoint Film Festival (Brooklyn, New York). He is currently completing a thesis at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía on the ‘film-essay on art’, in which he studies the forms of critical dialogue between film and the visual arts since the beginning of the 20th century, as well as their aesthetic, academic and political applications.
His films are based on a second-degree re-reading of images from the past, whether they belong to the field of art or to personal memory, but also of images from the present. His first two film-essays on art, The Guernica Variations and The Imaginary Garden, are a denunciation of the use of violence against civilians and its opposite: a meditation on European culture and creativity; both were premiered in the official section of the Documenta Madrid 2012 festival, and have been screened in cinemas, museums, universities and cultural centres in Europe, North America and Latin America.
Project in residence
El Jardín imaginario y Las variaciones Guernica
During his artistic residency, Guillermo G. Peydró (Madrid, 1981) will travel around Gijón with his camera, interacting with the city to make a short documentary. Winner of the Universo vídeo prize, awarded by LABoral and the Gijón International Film Festival, as part of the activities that form part of FICXLAB, the filmmaker will use his art historian’s perspective as a starting point for this approach to Gijón.
His new work will premiere at the 2014 Gijón International Film Festival and will become part of the Gijón Film Festival Archive, which will be kept at LABoral Centro de Arte for promotional, educational and research purposes.
