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Experimental
Duración / 7 min’

OJO DE AGUA
Cuba / 2023
Analog 16mm /color

The first swim in a river, the lush vegetation, the sounds of the night, the force with which water is born from a rock. All that the eye is able to keep after venturing to look for the first time at the natural beauty of an unknown island.

Director / Héctor García
Script / Héctor García
DOP / Héctor García
Music / Héctor García

DIRECTOR’S BIOFILMOGRAPHY

Héctor García (1990), Los Realejos, Tenerife. Filmmaker, art director, cultural manager and private
researcher. He studied Hispanic Philology at the ULL, Film Direction at the Instituto del Cine de Canarias and a Master’s Degree in Fiction from the EICTV in Cuba. In 2017, studying Lorca’s work, she created a documentary piece about the figure of women in Federico García Lorca’s plays.

In 2018, he won the Gáldar International Film Festival and developed an intense activity as an art director. He was part of the Garoé literary gathering. Between 2019 and 2020, he was the audiovisual coordinator of the Pérez Gáldos House Museum. In 2021 he was one of the founders of Canarias Autoetnográfica, a group that disseminates autoethnographic praxis focused on the Canarian experience.

In January 2022, it organizes the first autoethnography conference in online format. That same year, his short film La Magua was part of
the Canarias en corto catalogue, being selected in various international festivals. In the summer of 2022, He films the final thesis of her master’s degree in Cuba with a work that explores the spiritual and ritual relationships of Afro-descendant cultures between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean.

As an art director he has worked on numerous projects such as the Canarian-Dominican film Vienes o voy or different advertising projects. He works as a set designer and visual designer with different
dance and performance artists from the islands. As a cultural manager, he has worked as a curator in different film classrooms and since 2023 he
has been the president of the film and audiovisual section of the Ateneo de La Laguna in Tenerife.

He is currently the coordinator of an international research project entitled A Cinema on the Periphery: Shadows, Echoes and Gazes in the Reaffirmation of a Canarian Cinematography. She is also developing her first fiction feature film, Virginia. In his artistic searches and processes, she contemplates multidisciplinarity as a door to a freer
artistic production where video creation merges with performance and collective practices.

Héctor García