2017 — L.A OLA showcase (United States)
2016 — L’Alternativa – Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona (Spain)
2016 — CURTOCIRCUÍTO – Festival Internacional de Cine (Spain)
2016 — ZINEBI – Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films (Spain)
2016 — Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla (Spain)
2016 — ALCINE – Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
2016 — SITGES – Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya (Spain)
2017 — Bideodromo (Spain)
2017 — Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival (Spain)
2017 — D’A Film Festival Barcelona (Spain)
2017 — Cinetekton Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura (Mexico)
2017 — Seoul International Alternative Film Festival – NeMAF (South Korea)
2018 — Directed by Women (Spain)
Awards
2016 — Winner of the 1st MULTIVERSO Grant, Fundación BBVA
2016 — Recognized by Caimán Cuadernos de Cine magazine as one of the outstanding short films of 2016
Crew
Camera: Nacho Montero
Sound: Josep Vilagut
After Effects: Manuel Eslava and Natalia Marín
Poster Design: Silvia Grav
Exhibitions
2019 — Galería Solar. Vila do Conde. Portugal
2017 — ‘La Pared’. Tabakalera San Sebastián. Comisario Víctor Iriarte
2016 — I AYUDA MULTIVERSO Fundación BBVA. Comisaria Laura Baigorri. Artists: Juan Carlos Bracho, David Ferrando Giraut, Sally Gutiérrez, Marla Jacarilla, Juan del Junco, Natalia Marín, Regina de Miguel, Lois Patiño, Andrés Senra, Daniel Silvo.
«New Madrid» is the result of a research. I have been studying, filming and travelling during the past two years on the same topic: copycat cities and failed utopias. In particular this short film talks about eight towns built in another country with the same name of my city. The eight towns failed for several and different reasons in the past so nowadays there aren’t prosperous places or even they don’t exist anymore. I tried to make a reflection about the «doomed copy» which is a theme that traditionally belongs to literature but it can be applicable to other disciplines. I tried to make a link between this failure and the current urban model.
The discovery of the American cities baptized with the name of the capital of Spain induced Natalia Marín to elaborate an audiovisual essay on the multiple failure of the game: that of man, that of society, that of the idea of utopia. His piece, concise and lucid, reflects on concepts such as copy and simulation to conclude that the repetition of urban models, without addressing other considerations (orographic, climatic, economic…), only lead to catastrophe. The passage from negative images to virtual simulation, the voice-over that paraphrases Pérec, Lefebvre, Mumford, Calvino and, above all, Baudrillard, and the use of red at a specific moment, make up a solid discourse on the defeat of the human being as self-styled demiurge and, at the same time, transfer that idea of failure to the original city.
— ENRIC ALBERO, CAIMAN CUADERNOS DE CINE, Best Shortfilms 2016
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