Coloring eyes: The cinema of Elena Duque
Centro Párraga
Murcia, España
September 22-23, 2025
Stop motion animation workshop taught by Elena Duque:
September 22-23, 11:00-15:00
Free. Limited capacity
Registrations: aresmurtaller@gmail.com
Short film screening and expanded cinema performance:
September 23, 20:30
Free entrance
Performance:
Quick painting course for participants (2023-present)
16mm, paper, brushes, acrilic paints, 25 min
Screening:
La mar salada (2014, DV, 3 min)
Valdedíos (2019, DV,, 3 min)
Colección privada (2020, Super-8, 13 min)
Ojitos mentirosos (2024, Super-8, 6 min)
Portales (2025, 16mm, 15 min 45)
Spanish-Venezuelan Elena Duque is a filmmaker, programmer, critic, and professor. As a filmmaker, her work moves between animation and collage, incorporating analog formats and working methods to explore themes such as identity and a sense of belonging through visual exercises involving places, objects, and textures. To date, she has created several experimental and animated pieces, which have been seen at festivals such as the Berlinale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, Punto de Vista in Pamplona, the London Animation Film Festival, Les Inattendus (Lyon), Documenta Madrid, Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA), Festival des Cinémas Différents in Paris, ExFF in Frankfurt, Animasivo (Mexico), Cinespaña Toulouse, and L'Alternativa, among others, as well as at institutions such as Kino Arsenal (Berlin) and the CCCB (Barcelona). Several monographic sessions have been dedicated to her work at venues such as the Valdivia Film Festival (Chile). Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, USA; Doc's Kingdom (Portugal); MUTA (Peru); and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, among others. She received a Special Mention at the 2020 Gijón Film Festival and the Best National Film Award at Caracas Doc 2021. Her work is included in the catalogues of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), Hamaca, and the Xcèntric Archive at the CCCB in Barcelona. She was a Visual Arts resident at the Matadero Center for Artist Residencies in 2023. She also develops commissioned pieces such as festival headers and music videos. She is also a programmer and head of the publications department at (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña, has been an associate programmer at the Seville European Film Festival, is a professor at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid, and teaches workshops at different institutions and master's programs. She is the editor of the books Val del Omar. Beyond Earth's Orbit (published by Bafici) and 8 Super 8 (published by
(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico) and author of The Secret Passages: Notes on Experimental Animation (CCCB Breus Collection).
The exhibition is supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) "Materialism and Geographic Specificity in the Philosophy of Film" (grant agreement ID: 101102377), at the University of Murcia, funded by the European Union. However, the opinions expressed are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the University of Murcia. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for these opinions.