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Video in the veins (Video en las venas)

Documentary
Duration: 92 min
Spanish Language
English subtitles
Original format: HD
Projection Format: DCP 2K 5.1 Color 1: 85: 1
Production: Minimo Estudio S.L © 2020 Spain

VIDEO EN LAS VENAS Enrique Miñano Teorema Films

Production, Direction and Photography: José Ramón da Cruz
Photography: Georgia Ark
Editing: Gema Romera
Archive Postproduction: Teorema Films
Mastering & Deliveries: Teorema Films

Documentary tribute to the figure of Enrique Miñano, producer of video art in Spain, whose history allows us to travel the trajectory of video art from the 80s to the present day. The work began as a tribute but in the course of the recording, the project grew, ‘it has gone further and has become a valuable material that not only travels from art to pedagogy through television and new spaces audiovisuals, but it brings together and synthesizes the idea of independence of many people from communication, culture and art’. According to Mirito Torreiro ‘the documentary VÍDEO_EN_LAS_VENAS should be mandatory in the field of audiovisual studies in Spain’.

Amparo Garrido
Amparo Garrido

Director Bio

José Ramón da Cruz (Tánger, 1961). Spanish video artist and filmmaker considered ‘one of the most important creators of Spanish video’, according to the newspaper El País y included in the Generation of ’87. In 1978, at the age of 17, he created -together with Paco Valdés and Javier Cebrián- the Grupo TAU experimental film team, one of the representatives of avant-garde cinema ‘new wave / no wave’. He began studies in Sociology and Political Science, which he abandoned to focus on the world of cinema and video art. At the age of 22, and with his first creative video, Of-Tal, he was awarded an award at the Madrid Video Festival and cited as one of the mainstays of the ‘new European fiction’ (El País). In 1986 the Reina Sofía Art Center acquired several of his videos for its inauguration and participated in the 1992 Biennial of the Moving Image. In 1987 he was highlighted as one of the ’87 creators of 87 ‘by the magazine La Luna de Madrid until in 1990 -with Armstrong- he decided to close a first video-artistic stage and open another one more focused on television and cinema in which the series stood out. FUTURE of wide international projection and that is conserved in the documentary archives of the CSIC, and several Documentos TV. In 2005 he produced the first Spanish fiction series for mobile telephony: Tercer Territorio y Feroces (Vodafone Live!).

In 2014 with MadreQuentina he opened a second video-artistic stage, and in 2016 the exhibition Cruces y Convergencias at the La Neomudéjar Museum in Madrid dedicated a retrospective to him.

In order to maintain his creative independence, he founded several production companies in time such as La Turkía del Video (1985-88), La Confusión Española (89-92), Assembly (1993) or Minimimo (2004-16). He has received numerous awards such as the Madrid Video Festival (1984 and 1986), the Barcelona Video Biennial, the Monte Carlo International TV Festival (96 and 99), the Biarritz FIPA (96 and 98), the New International TV Festival York, Japan Prize, In-Edit Barcelona, Dock Of The Bay de San Sebastián, Memorimage … His work has been seen in more than thirty countries.

Director’s filmography

VIDEOARTE

  1. BEAUTYTUDES (2018) 20’. MEQBA
  2. MADREQUENTINA (2014) 17’. Mínimo P + Mínimo Estudio
  3. HOMBREQUEPARECELORCA + LA LUNA (1998) 15’. Ático7 + Industry
  4. EL RUIDO DEL OJO (1991) 9’. La Confusión Española
  5. ARMSTRONG (1990) 16’. La Confusión Española + K2000
  6. EL COLOR INTERIOR (1988) 8’. Latina EU
  7. SUICIDIO DEL ARCÁNGEL SAN GABRIEL (1987) 21’. Turka VTV + Telemadrid
  8. PRAGA (1986) 22’. La Turkía del Vídeo + Atanor + Rompeolas
  9. LAS HIJAS HEROICAS (1985) 17’. La Turkía del Vídeo + Atanor
  10. EL HIJOPUTA (1985) 16’. La Turkía del Vídeo
  11. ROCAMBOLE (1985) 15’. La Turkía del Vídeo + Atanor
  12. LUISA FERNANDA (1985) 15’. La Turkía del Vídeo
  13. AUSTRALIA (1984) 37’. José Ramón da Cruz & Paco Valdés
  14. EL BORCEGA (1984) 20’. SNE
  15. OF-TAL (1984) 24’. SNE

CINE

  1. VÍDEO_EN_LAS_VENAS (2019-20) 85’. MínimoE.
  2. GEOMETRÍA DEL ESPLENDOR (2016) 95’. Mínimo P + Mínimo Estudio + Continua Films + The Lobby
  3. MAPA EMOCIONAL DE TÁNGER (2013-14) 105’. Mínimo P + Mínimo Estudio + Imagia
  4. TANGERNACIÓN (2012) 95’. Mínimo P + Mínimo Estudio
  5. HISTORIA DE UNA FOTO (2008) 72’. Pedro Costa PC + TVE
  6. LOS QUE QUISIERON MATAR A FRANCO (2006) 95’. Pedro Costa PC + TVE
  7. PÚBOL (2005) 72’. Mínimo P + Mínimo Estudio
  8. ¡QUE VIENEN LOS BEATLES! ESPAÑA 1965 (1995) 60’. TVE

And an experimental stage (basically in S8 and signed as Grupo TAU, GRAPO or El Eritreo Convulso) with works such as DE ROSA LUXEMBURGO A PETRA KELLY (1984) GRAPO (Grupo Tau) 5 ‘, 1983. EL RIGOR DEL OBRERO DEL METAL (1983) Comité de la Patronal en Luto (Grupo Tau) 11’, 1982. CONFERENCIA DE SAN ODU (1982) Grupo Tau 20’, 1982. GRAN PUK (1982) Grupo Tau 23’…

* The TAU Group was made up of José Ramón da Cruz, Paco Valdés and Javier Cebrián.

TELEVISION

In Television from 1993 to 2015, he performed, among other programs, Investigation Team for Antena 3TV (1994-97), Cuerda de Presos Antena 3 TV (1995), TV Documents for TVE (1999-2011), Open on Channel for Canal Plus (1998) or the series Futuro (2001-03) for TVE and New Atlantis …