{"id":3759,"date":"2015-11-07T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/?page_id=3759"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:05:35","slug":"elia-urquiza-original-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/elia-urquiza-original-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Elia Urquiza &#8211; original works"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Largometraje &#8211; Feature Film<\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Next<\/em>,\u00a0Spain\/USA, 2015, 72&#8242;<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73256986\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00abNext\u00bb explora el mundo de las ni\u00f1as y adolescentes \u2013 desde los 6 a los 16 a\u00f1os \u2013 que se mudan a Los Angeles para perseguir un sue\u00f1o universal: conseguir ser actrices famosas.\u00a0Todos los d\u00edas llegan al aeropuerto de Los \u00c1ngeles, felices y contentas, ensayando audiciones en la cola del supermercado. Vienen de ciudades del medio oeste en donde nunca pasa nada. Los padres de estas ni\u00f1as a veces las empujan y a veces las siguen en este camino improbable.\u00a0Las llevan a audiciones y a ver agentes y a rodajes y a clases de actuaci\u00f3n. Alquilan habitaciones en moteles y luego se mudan a apartamentos temporales en los que todo es temporal, en una ciudad temporal llena de gente temporal. Est\u00e1n buscando su trozo del pastel, ese sue\u00f1o Americano dulce y pringoso que todos los d\u00edas nos prometen en televisi\u00f3n. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playtimeaudiovisuales.com\/catalogo_playtime\/Next.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Next<\/em> explores the world of young girls &#8211; 6 TO 16 &#8211; who move to Los Angeles to pursue an universal dream: become actresses, become famous, become successful.\u00a0They arrive to LA, running happily around their mothers, they rehearse their monologues in supermarket lines. They come from Midwest towns in which not much ever happens.\u00a0Sometimes pushing them and sometimes being dragged by them, their parents run after those young starlettes. They drive them to auditions and agents and shootings and acting lessons. They rent rooms in motels and then they move to temporary apartments in which everything is temporary, in a temporary city made of temporary people. They are looking for their piece of the cake, the sweet and soft American dream that we promise on TV everyday. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spainred.us\/project\/\u201cnext\u201d-documentary-direct-elia-urquiza-produce-tarias-postprod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cortometraje &#8211; Short<\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00abDe Carmen a Carmen\u00bb \/\u00a0<em>From Carmen to Carmen,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Spain, 2003-04, 26&#8242;<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/10745885\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">El Cangrejo, m\u00edtico bar del Raval (Barcelona), es el punto de partida y comparaci\u00f3n de dos s\u00edmbolos paralelos aunque contradictorios: Carmen Amaya, la diosa del flamenco, respetada y eterna; y Carmen de Mairena, la reina del universo kitsch y surrealista.\u00a0El documental invita a un viaje bipolar donde se funden amor, fama, miedos y prejuicios. (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/10745885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">El Cangrejo, the legendary bar of the Raval area of Barcelona, has been the birth alma mater of two of the city&#8217;s most cherished and admired icons of this era; Carmen Amaya the goddess of flamenco and Carmen de Mairena the queen of drag and kitschness personified. Some would say that each stands in contradiction to the other&#8217;s art, but in El Cangrejo both have come together, each an elaborate embodiment of entertainment, to launch their art.\u00a0This documentary invites you to a discover a tale of two artistes, a split vision of a world where love, fame, fear and prejudice fuse together under the arc of inspiration.\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/10745885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00abEntre el dictador y yo\u00bb \/\u00a0<em>Between the Dictator and Me<\/em>,\u00a0Spain, 2005, 60&#8242;<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A partir de una premisa: \u00abCu\u00e1l fue la primera vez que o\u00ed hablar de Franco\u00bb, seis j\u00f3venes directores realizan una pieza sobre la propia memoria y el recuerdo personal. La suma de sus miradas compone una reflexi\u00f3n plural sobre nuestra historia. Una revisi\u00f3n del legado y la pervivencia, evidente o subterr\u00e1nea, de la figura de Francisco Franco. Una mirada sobre el presente para encontrar en \u00e9l las claves del pasado y para entender un mundo donde la figura de los dictadores sigue siendo lamentablemente vigente. Un ejercicio f\u00edlmico contra el olvido. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelion.org\/noticia.php?id=22966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beginning with the questions: \u00abWhen was the first time I heard about Franco?\u00bb, six young film directores construct a piece on remembering and personal memory. Together they reflect\u00a0on Spain&#8217;s\u00a0history. It is a\u00a0rethinking of the legacy and and memory, acknowledged or ignored,\u00a0of Francisco Franco.\u00a0They look to the present to find the keys to the past, and to come to understand a world where dictators, regrettably, are still very much present. A film exercise, it is reminder that we mustn&#8217;t ever forget.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00abHistoria de un ni\u00f1o\u00bb,\u00a0Spain, 2006<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00abEx\u00f3tico\u00bb \/\u00a0<em>Exotic<\/em>,\u00a0Spain, 2010<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ex\u00f3tico, -ca; extranjero, peregrino, especialmente si procede de pa\u00eds lejano. En la Plaza de la Djem\u00e1a, Marrakech, turistas y locales se entrecruzan a la hora de la puesta de sol. Ex\u00f3tico intenta examinar con humor esa nueva frontera que tal vez refleja la verdadera estructura de clases de la sociedad globalizada: aquella entre los turistas y los que no podr\u00e1n serlo nunca. Entre el que no saldr\u00e1 nunca de su pa\u00eds y el que por afici\u00f3n visita pa\u00edses m\u00e1s aut\u00e9ntico. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.puntodevistafestival.com\/es\/ficha_pelicula.asp?IdPeli=180&amp;Urtea=2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Exotic: of foreign origin, not native, introduced from abroad. In the djemaa or town square in Marrakech, tourists and locals mingle at sunset. Ex\u00f3tico\/Exotic explores in a humorous tone the new border that seems to reflect the true class structure of the globalised society, the line between tourists and people who will never be able to travel abroad. The line that separates those who will never leave their country from those who enjoy visiting countries that seem to. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.puntodevistafestival.com\/es\/ficha_pelicula.asp?IdPeli=180&amp;Urtea=2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/audiovisual-creation\/elia-urquiza\/\">\u2b05\ufe0e Back to Elia Urquiza&#8217;s\u00a0Biography<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Largometraje &#8211; Feature Film Next,\u00a0Spain\/USA, 2015, 72&#8242; \u00abNext\u00bb explora el mundo de las ni\u00f1as y adolescentes \u2013 desde los 6 a los 16 a\u00f1os \u2013 que se mudan a Los Angeles para perseguir un sue\u00f1o universal: conseguir ser actrices famosas.\u00a0Todos los d\u00edas llegan al aeropuerto de Los \u00c1ngeles, felices y contentas, ensayando audiciones en la [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3759\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}