Valeria Camporesi
Spanish Film Archive (Filmoteca Española)
Bologna, Italy. Professor of Film and Visual Culture History and Theory at the Department of Art History and Theory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Since January 2023, she has been Director of the Spanish Film Archive (Filmoteca Española).
Her main research interests include: national culture and audiovisual media; the relationship between cinema and history, cinema and visual culture; and the transnational aspects of European film history. Her recent publications include: Las películas del art cinema y sus públicos. El cine español en la segunda mitad de los años setenta (Madrid, Cátedra, 2023); Pensar la historia del cine (Madrid, Cátedra, 2014); Il cinema spagnolo attraverso i film (Rome, Carocci, 2014); The ‘strange objects’ of the collection of the Museo Nacional – Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Arrebato (I. Zulueta, 1979) and the construction of the ‘other’ Spanish cinema.
Interview: Joxean Fernández
Director of the Basque Film Library since December 2010 and member of the San Sebastián International Film Festival Management Committee since January 2011, he is a tenured lecturer (currently on extended leave of absence) at the University of Nantes and a specialist in Contemporary History and the History of Film. He has a PhD from the University of Zaragoza and the University of Nantes, writing his co-supervised doctoral thesis on Film and the Civil War in the Basque Country (1936-2006).
- Duration:
- 19 min.
