FILMMAKER PORTRAITS. Portraits of Spanish film directors. By Óscar Fernández Orengo
From the 8th of November to the 12th of December 2011.
Timetable: from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00.
Free entry.
Cervantes Institute – C/ Libreros, 23 – 28801 Alcalá de Henares
We have brought together fifty portraits from the essential work of the photographer Óscar Fernández Orengo in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation). The most important filmmakers in Spain have been subjects in front of his camera; from different generations and genres, and with different ways of understanding the seventh art. The viewpoint of Orengo unifies a myriad of outlooks in powerful black and white portraits in a panoramic format.
The exhibition, a follow-up to Through My Eyes, which has toured the world in tens of Cervantes Institutes worldwide, and AECID cultural centres, provides a view of the faces and habitats of filmmakers vital to our present and recent past, such as Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Iciar Bollain, Fernando León de Aranoa, Fernando Trueba, Mario Camus and José Luis Garci.
When the exhibition’s journey around the Cervantes Institute comes to an end, it will begin a long tour across continents and through many different countries.
THROUGH MY EYES. Portraits of Spanish film directors. By Óscar Fernández Orengo
From the 11th of November 2011 to the 8th of January 2012
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00 (Closed on Mondays not bank holidays).
Free entry.
Santa María la Rica, 3
The beginnings of Orengo’s most ambitious and personal project, bringing together the first forty portraits of this work in progress. He uses these to shine a spotlight on the appearance – and also the soul – of very different filmmakers from the recent history of Spanish film. The panoramic format – unusual for portraits and nearly always employed for landscapes -, a very personal view of filmmakers and films, the use of non-digital techniques, and the black and white, endow this exhibit with its very own personality. The exhibition, put on by the Cervantes Institute and many of its centres, has gone around the world and is after several years back home again in the city where it was exhibited for the first time.
