The José Saramago Hall of the César Manrique Foundation yesterday hung the sold out sign at the screening of the film Javier Reyes: The Artisan Look, the documentary produced by the Data Center of the Cabildo de Lanzarote dedicated to the figure of the Lanzarote photographer Javier Reyes Acuña (Haría, 1926-2024).
The hundred seats in the room were occupied to see the film directed by Nicolás Melián and Veintinueve Trece that reviews the life and work of the photographer from Haría, whose collection, of more than 16,000 negatives, he donated in life to the Cabildo de Lanzarote for its digitization and dissemination in the Digital Memory of Lanzarote.
The Artisan Look was screened for the third time in Lanzarote after having premiered in Haría in December 2023 and exhibited, throughout 2024, at the CIC El Almacén, Puerto Calero, La Graciosa, Filmoteca Canaria in Tenerife and at the Fuerteventura Auditorium. It is planned that in the coming months it will be screened in Gran Canaria.
The exhibition on Thursday afternoon was part of the conference cycle Memory of Thursdays, organized by the Cabildo de Lanzarote through the Data Center and Digital Memory of Lanzarote, departments coordinated by the councilor Ascensión Toledo.
This is the second edition of Memory of Thursdays, after the one held last 2024. If the first edition mainly addressed the knowledge of other audiovisual archives similar to the Digital Memory of Lanzarote that exist in the rest of the Canary Islands and Macaronesia, in the present 2025 the main theme of the conferences has revolved around new projects launched by the Data Center.
The last of the planned conferences will take place on February 20 and will be a round table entitled Compared Islands: Menorca, Ibiza, La Palma, Lanzarote. This round table will bring together experts and representatives from the main analysis bodies of each of the islands to discuss their evolution over the last thirty years.
