The film is a metaphor about Human Obsession, represented by a girl that is obsessed with a painting (El cuadro) of a volcanic landscape (Timanfaya, Lanzarote Island). The film is made of 4 stages.

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Festivals
* Nominated Best Photography &
Winner Best Music at the Ateneo
en Corto Film Festival 2007
* International Gijon Film festival
* Finalist Aguitar film Fest, Spain
* IFCT U.S.A Film Festival 07
* Finalist Aarhus Denmark FilmFest 07
* Audiovisual SubImagen Zamora
* Ateneo en Corto, Canary Islands
* Festival Audiovisual de Manresa
* Mostra Minima Film Festival, Spain
* Fascurt Festival, Barcelona, Spain
* festival du cinema espagnol
de toulouse, france

Director's Statement by Javier Ideami :

Art & Technology in Lanzarote

One of the reasons that makes - El cuadro- a unique film is that it mixes and blends different technologies and ways to make films into one single work;

some of the material of el Cuadro is made with a special high-speed photography technique created by Ideami Films (www.ideami.com); this technique allowed the team to use photography techniques without being restricted by the typical limits of film cameras;

Other parts of the film are animated mixing photography and animation techniques, and finally other parts of the film are combining together animation with film and movement that relates and ties them both together;

This blend of different techniques is also a metaphore of the state of mind that the obsessed person can have; a state of mind sometimes closer to reality, sometimes more surreal, dreamy or artificial; The girl´s mind changes its perspective through the film and so does the technology below that supports the film; The real landscape, the filmed landscape, the photographed lanscape, the proyected landscape, all of them blend around the girls´s mind, expressed by different technologies working together.

Very important was the great effort, work and acting of Barbara Kalas, who had to work in very windy and difficult weather conditions to express the visceral volcanic expression of the lanzarote landscape, the sense of despair, the blending of her femenine and volcanic sides as the - cuadro - starts to trap her mind

Ideami / Ideami Films
www.ideami.com

The music of El cuadro

The music has a big weight in - El cuadro - and manages to express the tension needed at each of its scenes. The composer, Oscar Colomina, is one of the most promising young spanish composers; he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at present Oscar undertakes doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Simon Bainbridge. The music of el cuadro is made of fragments from one of Oscar´s works -"Open the Curtains" -, an intense and profound composition that perfectly fits the atmosphere of the film. Another great support comes from conductor Pablo González, winner of the Donatella Flick competition from the London Symphony, the most prestigious conducting competition in Europe, as well as the Cadaques first prize and many other prizes around Europe. Pablo is one of the most succesful young conductors in Europe, and for this occasion he conducted the Young International orchestra city of Oviedo, Spain, in a live recording at the main Auditorium of Oviedo in August 2006. The Young International Orchestra city of Oviedo is composed by young and bright musicians from different nationalities.

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