04/05. Thursday

19:00 KM Kulturunea

Dialogue #2: On nostalgia: Film and music with and against the past

Alba G. Mora, Joan Pons, Yago Paris

Alba G. Mora

Alba G. Mora

Alba G. Mora (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1992) is an editor. She works for Alpha Decay Editions since 2018, and since 2020 she has been in charge of publishing Alpha Comic, the comic collection. She has participated twice in the film cycle “Fantasmagories del desig” at Filmoteca de Catalunya presenting Blue Velvet by David Lynch in 2017, and It Follows by David Robert Mitchell in 2019. In 2022, together with the writer Jorge de Cascante, she started the micro-publishing company Paloma Ediciones, where she published a fanzine dedicated to their neighbourhood, La Florida, in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. She spends her free time walking around the city at a fast pace, buying second-hand treasures and watching films. Among her favourite directors are Abel Ferrara, Michael Mann and Ross McElwee.

Joan Pons

Joan Pons

Since 1994 he has been working as an editor, writer and critic of music, comics, cinema, books and tv series in different media, but especially in Rockdelux, a magazine where he directed and coordinated the cinema section from 1995 to 2005, and in Fotogramas from 2008 to 2017, where he wrote a monthly column on television fiction. He has also worked as music and film critic for several national newspapers. In the academic field, he was a professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the UAB from 1995 to 2006. He has been part of different television projects such as "Cachitos de hierro y cromo", "Salvados", the daily magazine "Divendres", the docu-reality "Casal rock" or the quiz-show "Gafapastas". He was also part of the programming and artistic direction team of In-edit music documentary film festival. In 2017, he became Director of Communication at Primavera Sound, where he is currently responsible for communication and head of content at the festival, but also coordinates and supervises the communication of the counterpart teams at other Primaveras around the world.

Yago Paris

Yago Paris

Yago Paris holds a PhD in Film Studies from the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, where he also teaches. In 2021 he obtained a master's degree in Film Studies from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He also holds a degree in Pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid and a master's degree in Organic Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid too. As a part of his research work, he has published several papers and participated at numerous conferences and symposia. He has also co-edited the book "Lo que nunca volverá: La infancia en el cine" (Applehead Team), where he has also contributed with a set of analytical texts, and is part of the publishing house A Contraluz, which specializes in cinema and other audiovisual expressions. At the same time, he works as a film critic for the specialised websites Cine Divergente and El Antepenúltimo Mohicano, and has contributed to newspapers such as InfoLibre and Ctxt. In the podcast version, he is the director of the programme Críticas Sobre La Marcha, where he also participates as an analyst in critical debates, and together with Ignacio Pablo Rico, he manages the programme Imágenes a Distancia. He has recently joined the radio programme Perros Verdes.