The Lanzarote Film Festival incorporates into the island's literary heritage eight texts by as many authors from the island who, at the proposal of the organization, have fueled their inspiration with silhouettes of Lanzarote corresponding to ancient cartographies from various periods of history.
With this production of images and narratives, the exhibition 8 portraits 8 mutant stories of an island has been created, which opens today, Tuesday, November 19, at 5:30 p.m. in the Plaza de El Almacén, with the presence of the participating writers, Melchor López, Macarena Nieves Cáceres, Lana Corujo, Juli Mesa, Félix Hormiga, Pepe Betancort, Daniela Martín Hidalgo and Nieves Rodríguez.
A kiosk in the center of the urban space inside which illustrations are projected and a publication that is distributed in schools, libraries or cultural shops constitutes the axis of an artistic proposal through which the island is invited to imagine, not as something closed or outlined, not as an image or a certainty, but as a concept full of options. On different days, some events will take place around the kiosk to highlight the connection between cartography, literature and history of Lanzarote.
In the words of the director of the Lanzarote Film Festival, Javier Fuentes Feo, this year's exhibition is once again expanding through the public space of Arrecife to share these and other arguments. “The idea is to try to mobilize thoughts and emotions that are capable of reaching a large part of the citizens of the capital and the island,” he pointed out.
The installation, which is operational from Tuesday, November 19 to Sunday, December 1, has the collaboration of the Arrecife City Council through its Department of Culture.
The Lanzarote Film Festival has the collaboration of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers, the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society through its product brand Lanzarote Film Commission and the sponsorship of the Canary Islands Institute of Cultural Development (ICDC), the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts of Spain (ICAA), the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the Government of the Canary Islands, Canary Islands Latitude of Life and the European Union, through the Next Generation EU initiative and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.