After producing a number of documentary and experimental pieces such as Así se ve la felicidad (2022) and Espejismos: Una sinfonía antropóptica (2022), as well as educational film analysis and criticism, Pablo Retuerta Nogales (2001) graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Carlos III University of Madrid in 2023, with a dual specialisation in Film and Television.
During his studies, in 2022 he co-directed his first short film, Anoche, and a few months later independently directed his first short film and videoclip, Vivas (2023). Both of these audiovisual projects strengthened his desire to reflect gender stories that highlight the inequality, neglect and mistreatment of women.
As a result of his early and strong desire to work with archives, the filmmaker is now working on two new film and documentary projects, each with a different female perspective. With the first he seeks to make the voice of La Nueva Barraca heard, while with the second he returns to his roots to initiate a family memory exercise and in both projects, analogue photography and Super-8 images weave a discourse with the past.
Thus, his main interests are focused on recovery, conservation and archival cataloguing using a solid audiovisual collection and personal material, and by recovering reels, projectors, camcorders, lenses and graphic documents which he uses to make screenings and filming in the home setting, and to study the photochemical medium itself.
Finally, his involvement in the audiovisual academic circle in Madrid led him not only to work with the Spanish film production company Aquí y Allí Films during his final university year but also to build a short bio-filmography and to actively participate in debates and activities in the company, such as the course: ‘Espeleologías del Archivo Cinematográfico’, run by the Carlos Saura Centre for Conservation and Restoration of Film Collections (CCR) and Filmoteca Española.
Last update of this profile: 2024
