03/05. Wednesday

19:00 KM Kulturunea

Dialogue #1. On nostalgia: Film and music with and against the past

Felipe Rodríguez, Isabel Fernandez, Laia Quilez

Felipe Rodríguez

Felipe Rodríguez

Critic and cultural researcher specialised in popular culture, professor of the Master's Degree in Film Critic at the ECAM and graduate in Marketing and Public Relations by the UCM. He currently writes for specialised media such as Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, Cinemanía, Nuebo and Inverse. He occasionally collaborates with Filmoteca Española and Cineteca in the preparation of conferences, cycles, presentations or curating programs and he has also been a jury member at festivals such as SEFF, IBAFF or the Aguilar Film Festival. In the past, he has also collaborated with online magazines such as Revista Mutaciones, Canino, El Pájaro Burlón and Redrum Blog de Cine.

Isabel Fernández

Isabel Fernández

Isabel Fernández (Bilbao, 1979) Basque composer and producer with a dozen albums released in Europe, the USA and Japan. Soundtrack writer and founder of the groups Charades and Aries, she currently publishes her music with Aida Torres as Magia Bruta (Foehn, 2022). She has composed soundtracks for Playstation, Nintendo, documentaries and commercials for brands such as Loewe, Kenzo or Stella McCartney and also has given her voice to the cartoons Manzana y Cebolleta and Hora de Aventuras for Cartoon Network. With a degree in Humanities and a Masters in Cultural Management from the Carlos III University of Madrid, she has also produced several publications and fanzines. A selection of these would give shape to her first book, Un Rayo Ultravioleta, published in 2015. In 2022 she published her second book, Trance Secreto (Editorial Sirimiri, 2022), a collection of poems that also includes a small selection of collages.

Laia Quilez

Laia Quilez

She has a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Communication and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. She holds a PhD in Communication and also is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). Member of ASTERISC, her lines of research focus on the study of audiovisual narratives of memory and post-memory of the last military dictatorship in Argentina, the Spanish Civil War and Franco's regime. She has also done research on documentary film with a gender perspective. She has been the principal investigator of the projects "Memorias en segundo grado: posmemoria de la Guerra Civil, el franquismo y la Transición Democrática en la España contemporánea" (MINECO, 2014-2016, CSO2013-41594-P) and "Articulaciones del género en el documental español: una perspectiva interseccional" (MICIU, 2019-2022, PGC2018-097966-B-I00). In 2017, she co-edited the book Posmemoria de la Guerra civil y el franquismo. Narrativas audiovisuales y producciones culturales en el siglo XXI (Ed. Comares).