Julio Iglesias’ house

Synopsis
In 2001, the Shanghai government tried to build a replica of Spain. Before the project began, they asked themselves what Spain was and what a Spanish house looked like. They immediately replied: Spain means Julio Iglesias.
Festivals

2018 —  Locarno Film Festival. Sección Signs of life . World Premiere

2018 — TIFF Toronto International Film Festival. Wavelengths

2018 — Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 

2018 — VIFF – Vancouver International Film Festival

2018 — VIENNALE – Vienna International Film Festival

2018 — FIDOCS – Festival Internacional Documentales de Santiago 

2018 — Festival Internacional de Cine de Xixón/Gijón 

2018 — Festival de Cortometrajes de Aguilar de Campoo

2018 — MÁRGENES – Festival internacional de cine de Madrid

2018 — FICValdivia – Festival Internacional de Cine Valdivia

2018 — Festival de Cortometrajes de Aguilar de Campoo

2018 — Antofacine – Festival Internacional de Antofagasta. Chile

2019 — The Art of the Real. Film at Lincoln Center

2019 — Chicago International Film Festival

2019 — BOGOSHORTS – Bogotá Short Film Festival 

2019 — ALCINE – Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares

2019 — Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media

2019 — D’A Film Festival Barcelona

2019 — Cinema Jove – Festival Internacional de Cine de València

2019 — Jeonju International Film Festival

2019 — FestCurtasBH – Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival

2019 — CURTOCIRCUÍTO – Festival Internacional de Cine

2019 — International Screening of Experimental Films and Videopoems TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE. Suecia

2019 — Certamen Internacional de Cortos Ciudad de Soria

2020 — Regensburg Short Film Week. Alemania

2020 — Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media. Alemania

Awards

2018 — Festival Internacional de Cine de Xixón/Gijón. Best Atlantic Short Film, Youth Jury Award
2018 — MÁRGENES – Festival Internacional de Cine de Madrid. Escáner Section Best Film
2019 — ALCINE – Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares. Best Screenplay

Exhibitions

2019 — ‘Expanded Plus Utopia’ en Jeonju, Corea del Sur. Artistas: Ben Rivers, Helena Wittman, Malena Szlam, Laura Huertas Millán y James Benning.
2019 — BIAU. Bienal de Arquitectura de Paraguay. Comisaria: Andrea Franco

Spanish singer Julio Iglesias once stated about his work, “Some people belong to history. I do not.” Iglesias owns houses around the world, notable among them a 4000-square meter mansion in Miami. Each of Natalia Marín’s films, often produced in collaboration with the collective trio Los Hijos, has dealt with the history and geopolitics of Spain. Quietly set against a white backdrop, Marín’s new solo work JULIO IGLESIAS’ HOUSE is instead a dense and caustic look at Spain as a global construct.

RACHAEL A. RAKES, FILM COMMENT

 

Taking a strikingly different approach, Spanish filmmaker Natalia Marín’s Julio Iglesias’s House addresses the re-creations of the titular mansion as exemplars of the “typical Spanish house” in exurban residential developments in China. The joke, of course, is that Iglesias’s pad is anything but typical or Spanish, but Marín wittily engages the subject through bizarre CG renderings of surface textures—abstractions of abstractions.

LEO GOLDSMITH, ARTFORUM

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