Sábado 13 | 12:30 | LA CASA ENCENDIDA
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Nuevos Pasajes, Nuevas Visiones 2026

Why I stopped meditating and started shouting

Asif Ken Fernandes | 2026 | 4′

SYNOPSIS

An intimate and fragmented reflection on a year marked by tension, overwhelm, and a loss of inner balance. Throughout 2025, what was once silence, pause, and contemplation begins to crack, giving way to an increasingly urgent need to express, to break free, to make noise. Navigating the space between the everyday and the emotional, the short film explores the transition from introspection to outward expression through images that oscillate between calm and overflow; the piece becomes an honest portrait of a personal process where silence is no longer enough.

Program Information

Día: Sábado 13
Hora: 12:30
Sede: LA CASA ENCENDIDA

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BIOGRAPHY

Asif Ken Fernandes

Asif Ken Fernandes (IMDb) is a director and VFX supervisor from Madrid, with a degree in Film and Audiovisual Fiction from UCJC. He has directed two short films: *Un Parpadeo Rojo* (2024) and *Vestigio* (2025), both of which have been selected for various festivals and screened at cultural centers, such as the Gijón International Film Festival (FICX), the D’A Film Festival (Barcelona), and the Festival Interna- cional de Márgenes (Madrid), as well as in Room B of the Filmo- teca Española, curated by Álex Mendibil. He has also served as director of photography on the short film Alma (2023), selected for the FICX. All of his involvement in these projects shares a common thread: the effective use of post-production to explain the everyday through the supernatural. His work in digital visual effects at the company Free Your Mind spans a wide variety of Spanish cinema; he has worked on more than 50 feature film and series projects, ranging from the most commercial cinema, such as La Infiltrada (2024), dir. Arantxa Eche- verría, and Tierra de nadie (2024), dir. Albert Pintó, to more art-house productions, such as Balearic (2025), dir. Ion de Sosa, and Cerrar los ojos (2022), dir. Víctor Erice. He is currently developing new projects independently and is focused on writing his first feature film, Pernocta."

Why I stopped meditating and started shouting
FICHA TÉCNICA

Dirección, guión, fotografía, montaje: Asif Ken Fernandes
Efectos visuales: Juan Carlos Moreno Villa
Sound: Carlos Tinas

with the assistance of:

Europa Creativa media

XII Edición

5 – 14 JUNIO 2026

Viernes 5 de Junio

Sábado 6 de Junio

Domingo 7 de Junio

Miércoles 10 de Junio

Jueves 11 de Junio

Viernes 12 de Junio

Sábado 13 de Junio

Domingo 14 de Junio

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