The (In)visible Exiles

Exile is a reality that is very difficult to make visible, since it is, above all, an experience of internal uprooting. Nevertheless, women artists, among them the filmmakers who went into exile, tried time and again to stage and represent their woundedness.

Film producer and director Tània Balló and filmmaker, theorist and film promoter Luis E. Parés programme a film series linked to the exhibition Marta Palau: My Paths are Earthly, with the aim of presenting three different approaches to this wound and the way it is incarnated. Thus, through screenings, talks and conferences, we will generate a space for debate and reflection on these films and on other, more contemporary ones, which have allowed us to rediscover these works and their authors in the present day.

Tània Balló Colell is a filmmaker, writer, cultural promoter and researcher. She is the creator and director of the project Las Sinsombrero (2014–present) and Las Anónimas. Obras sin relato en las colecciones de arte moderno de los museos españoles (Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, Fundación BBVA, 2023). As a filmmaker, her films El Museo Invisible (2023) and the documentary trilogy Las Sinsombrero (2015–2021) stand out. She is the author of the Las Sinsombrero trilogy (2016, 2018, 2022), of Querido Diario: hoy ha empezado la guerra (2017) and of Les Combatents. La història oblidada de les milicianes antifeixistes (2021). She is also curator of the exhibitions Jorge Semprún. El largo viaje (2024–2025), Las Sinsombrero (2022) and No Pasarán. 16 días Madrid 1936 (2018).

Luís E. Parés holds a PhD in Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University and is artistic director of Cineteca Matadero Madrid. He has worked as part of the programming department of the Filmoteca Española, the editorial board of Caimán CDC and the programming committee of the Sevilla Film Festival, and was coordinator of the RTVE programme Historia de nuestro cine. He has published the books Notes sur l’émigration-Espagne 1960. Apunts per a una pel·lícula invisible (2011) and Filmar el exilio desde Francia (2012). He has directed the short films Los conspiradores (2021) and El espectro político (2023), as well as the feature film La primera mirada (2023).

Programme

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