This international festival La Mar de Músicas has sought to approach the culture of Morocco, a country that even though neighbor, is a complete unknown to the Spanish.
Moreover in terms of video art which have just come to our country samples.
The Sea of Art offers the opportunity to see a selection of the best short films and documentaries Moroccans, to be screened on 13, 14 and 15 in the foundation of Cartagena Cajamurcia at 19.00 hours on 21, 22 and 13 in the Nuevo Teatro Circo, the port city at 18.00.
Marta López Briones as curator of the exhibition and director of FotoEncuentros and excellent photographer Paco Salinas as coordinator, the video quality is guaranteed.
The selection for the program has a clear thematic: providing a heterogeneous vision of contemporary culture, using video art and bring this year a special program dedicated to Morocco.
This encounter with the works of the artists intended to provide the current state of video art in the Arab World, taking into account the new terms begin to gain more strength in movie (low budget, independent, new trends, etc.). .
This selection includes five works thematized, whose common denominator is self-expression and reflection on the fears and pleasures individual and collective, building a whole multifaceted vision, thousands of tiny eyes, which deepen and explore our world, or announce other possible .
A speech whose core values are diversity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity from being performed.
So, this video shows contemporary Morocco, intended as a quick glance at current audiovisual landscape, which brings together works by women artists, Dalia Ennadre and Bouchra Khalili, and men, artists who live and work in Morocco, as Wahid El Moutanna and D.
Ennadre and others who develop their practices in Europe not to Moroccans living and working in this country, the Abu Ali, and looks that are made from the other side of the strait, such as Alex Muñoz.
Program 1
Le Batalett - Femmes of Medina, Dalila Ennadre, 60 ', Morocco, France, dvd
RoundTrip, Bouchra Khalilli, 20 ', France - Spain - Morocco, 2005
Program 2
Cadre, Wahid El Moutanna, 14 ', Morocco, 2005
Only Valiente, Alex Muñoz, 60 ', Morocco - Spain, 2007
Dhia Dhikr, ABU-ALI, Morocco, 7 '2004
Source: La Mar de Músicas