“The Green Fog” de Guy Maddin
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- Auditori
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- Free activity with prior registration
As closing activities of the exhibition «José Fiol. The Green Fog» will screen Guy Maddin’s film with the title, The Green Fog, which constitutes a starting point for Fiol’s pictorial research, which has seen its materialization in the exhibition that is open to visit the Es Baluard Museum on May 5, 2025. The film The Green Fog (2017), co-directed by Maddin with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, it is an experimental proposal that revisits Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Vertigo, through different archival materials that come from extracts from films and television series set in the city of San Francisco, to create a particular version of the original.
After the screening, we have planned a talk in dialogue format between the researcher and film programmer, Manuel Asín and the artist Alain Urrutia.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
• Original Title: The Green Fog
• Year: 2017
• Running Time: 63 min.
• Country: United States
• Direction: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Manuel Asín (Zaragoza, 1978) is the artistic director of the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra and head of the Film Department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. Previously, he was the director of the film distribution and book and DVD publishing company Intermedio (2010-2015). As an independent programmer, he has produced series for film libraries, festivals, and art and film institutions such as Filmoteca Española, Museo Reina Sofía, Xcèntric-CCCB, Instituto Moreira Salles, Seville European Film Festival, Tabakalera, CGAI, IVAC-Filmoteca de Valencia, Bilbao Arte, Zinebi, etc. He has published texts in national and international magazines such as Trafic, Cahiers du cinéma, and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, where he is a member of the editorial board. He is the author of the prologues and the edition of two books on the cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: Écrits (2011) and Making the Revolution Is Also Putting Very Old But Forgotten Things Back in Their Place (2016), as well as the edition of Against Cinema: Complete Cinematographic Works (1952-1978) by Guy Debord.
Alain Urrutia (Bilbao, 1981) lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the University of the Basque Country and the Brera Academy in Milan in 2004. Urrutia has exhibited at international art museums, including the Boston Centre for the Arts, the CA2M in Madrid, the Artium in Vitoria, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in a group exhibition during the summer of 2023, and individually in 2012, as part of its 15th anniversary activities. Urrutia is interested in the slow gaze of reality that occurs when painting. He works intuitively. His work to date is closely related to the idea that, in photography, reality becomes an image and is subsequently translated into another reality by painting it. In his view, the goal is not to reproduce a mechanical/digital photograph in paint, but to construct a pictorial image. The paintings are striking due to their emotional impenetrability; they possess and produce a kind of silence, an evident lack of legibility, even a difficulty that transcends their subject matter itself. With this idea in mind, he slows down the process of perception to open paths to new interpretations based on pre-existing images, urging the viewer to question their assumptions about what they are contemplating.
