Espejos 2022
Apostasías y pasiones. El cine de David Pantaleón
David Pantaleón | 2021 | 80'
SYNOPSIS
The pieces shown in the session, made up by Pantaleón himself, correspond to the extensive period in which Rendir los machos was created, from 2014 to 2021. Among them are La pasión de Judas (2014), El becerro pintado (2017) or Los elefantes de Escipión (2017), essential works by what is probably the most vitalist and luminous filmmaker in contemporary Spanish cinema.
BIOGRAPHY
David Pantaleón
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David Pantaleón (1978, Spain) is a filmmaker who works with short films as a major art form and has built a filmography based on cultural gesture, humor, form and provocation. Pantaleón, born in Gran Canaria in 1978, has a degree in Dramatic Art and teaches acting at the Escuela de Actores de Canarias. Currently, he has more than 25 works under his belt. With La pasión de Judas, one of his most international works, he received the SIGNIS Award at the Oberhausen Festival. El becerro pintado (2017) premiered at the Rotterdam Festival. Other works to highlight are El polinizador (2016), Tres corderos (2015), Fiesta de pijamas (2015), A lo oscuro más seguro (2013) or Fondo o forma (2011), these last two, together with La Pasión de Judas, form the trilogy of cardboard stories, made in various workshops and with the collaboration of people with functional diversity from the Occupational Center of Valleseco (Las Palmas).
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Critical text
David Pantaleón's long-awaited arrival to feature films with Rendir los machos is the momentary culmination of a unique style, founded on the respectful observation of tradition and its subversion, the representation of ritual and its ironic reading, the solemnity that is reformulated in a paradoxical and hypnotic humor. His filmography distances itself from what the current panorama has accustomed us to because of its profoundly playful spirit, its capacity to immerse us in everyday life that is as unusual as it is magnetic, deeply rooted in the idiosyncrasy of the Canary Islands and at the same time reaching a universal dimension, as shown by its warm reception at prestigious international festivals such as Oberhausen or Rotterdam. JAVIER H. ESTRADA
