The summer stills being plenty of cultural proposals at Es Baluard and its FES (Summer Festivals in Es Baluard), which continues offering new meetings at the museum with the best of contemporary art.

MECAL AIR

Mecal Air Mallorca 2017 continues this year three Fridays in August, with the traditional short-film screenings outdoor and DJs sessions in a sophisticated and elegant atmosphere, but suitable for all audiences. This year will be celebrated in the central courtyard of Es Baluard, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palma.

Every Friday we’ll screen a selection of short films of Mecal | Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival, with different themes; an attractive and original proposal to begin summer weekend in Palma.

Free entrance.

Hour: 21: 00h to 23:30h
Dates: 4, 11 and 18 August 2017
Place: Central Courtyard

These sessions will be:

August 4: Let’s dance (MNDZ dj)
August 11: Special Horror (RTO Groovert dj)
August 18: Special Based on a True Story (Toni Pla dj)

FIVA

FIVA is the International Videoart Festival that has been held annually since 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Festival aims to disseminate audiovisual artistic practice in the format of video art, benefiting the production of filmmakers. It also proposes to disseminate contemporary languages to reduce the gap between current artistic production and the general public.

Hour: sessions at the museum’s opening hours, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. with museum entrance
Dates: from August 25 to September 7, 2017
Place: Intermedi

FIVA raised the need to generate the circulation of selected works beyond the scope of the city of Buenos Aires. This diffusion has both national and international scope. In the 2016 edition, 647 works by 631 artists from 57 countries of the 5 continents were presented, consolidating their position in the annual calendar of international festivals. In 2012, the support of INCAA (National Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts) was obtained, which is maintained until today.
Jury: Valentina Montero Peña (Chile), Antonio Weinrichter López (Spain) and Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina)
Awards:
First Prize: “Auxiliary Mirrors” by Sanaz Sohrabi (Iran)
Synopsis of “AuxiliaryMirrors”

It is a video essay about the “status of the image”, its materiality and latent in the narrative that may or may not become visible. In other words, what is visible and within the framework becomes equivalent to what is missing. Auxiliary Mirrors looks at images not as mere reflection or representation, but rather as objects and materials of their own. Structured as an essay, it juxtaposes and reshapes four sets of images in order to weave them through their common structures, allowing them to exist as part of a continuous whole.

Second Prize: “How to make rain” by Edgar Endress (Chile)

The video is structured around the belief among Quechuas, that to make it rain sometimes it is necessary to go to a “pacheta” (high peak) to burn llama manure. The video is a poetic exploration of the ongoing struggle of man in the Andes confronting the forces of nature, also the debris of a Spanish colonial system that acts as a reminder of a control instrument imposed on the way of life of the groups Indigenous people in the place. “How to make rain” is an attempt to amalgamate a poetic narrative of daily life and the interrelation with nature, work and memory.

Third Prize: “Field” Berio Molina (Spain)

Campo is a space where a reality becomes sensitive. An area where three elements interact (microphone, body and amplifier) making their aesthetic relationships sensible. Field is that place where the elements show the aesthetic phenomena derived from their relation.
As a result of this interaction a series of actions are produced that are ordered in two blocks.

Mentions:

“The threshold of glass” by Ana Rodriguez León (Spain)
“2Rabbits” by Kristina Frank and MerviKekarainen (Sweden)
“Landscape for a person” by Florencia Levy (Argentina)

FES’17: Next appointments, Mecal Air & FIVA