FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

6:00 p.m. Opening of the new LABA Valencia Lab space
6:00 p.m. Iberian cocktail

6:15 p.m. Multimedia installation
“À travers vos âmes,” Soline Le Morvan Idrac
À travers vos âmes is a multimedia installation by Soline Le Morvan Idrac that invites us to pay attention to brief, unnoticed moments. Sixty videos are projected simultaneously across three walls, blending people, places, gestures, and everyday scenes.

6:30 p.m. Motion graphics showcase

Cascades, Arna Lea
Cascades is an animated short film and music video by Arna Lea that combines original music, illustration, and motion design. A solitary figure is transported from an everyday setting into an inner world shaped by water, weather, and landscape.

Bound by a Thread, Marina Murillo
Bound by a Thread is a hybrid project by Marina Murillo that combines motion graphics and a flipbook to depict the five stages of falling in love, inspired by the “red thread of fate” and matryoshka dolls.

Oneeria (short film from the video game), Candela Mataix
Oneeria is a short film by Candela Mataix belonging to the fake video game genre, simulating a point-and-click game through animation. The story unfolds in a dark, surreal fantasy universe through characters, settings, and interface design, combining 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, and traditional design.

Expedición Magallanes y Elcano, Lucas Domínguez
Expedición Magallanes y Elcano is an animated video by Lucas Domínguez recounting the first circumnavigation of the globe. With chibi characters, humor, and animation, it pays tribute to one of the most significant moments in human history.

Memories in Motion, Weronika Pik
Memories in Motion is a motion design project by Weronika Pik comprising around thirty animations that recreate and visualize different forms of remembering, while allowing the author to immerse herself in experimentation.

Code + AI (short film), Cosette Reyes Guzmán
Code + AI is an experimental piece that treats image as living matter. Between the rigor of code and the unpredictable behavior of artificial intelligence, chaos emerges: patterns that generate, mutate, and take on new forms. The result unfolds between the programmed and the random, between human intention and the system’s chance.

7:00 p.m. Screenings

Raras (documentary). Director: Diana Maroto
Raras is a documentary by Diana Maroto born from a personal family experience. It seeks to explore life with two rare diseases — MELAS syndrome and pulmonary hypertension — giving voice to patients, families, and professionals. Diana brings visibility to living with these conditions and their impact, through listening, sensitivity, and above all, closeness.

Lo que no se dice (documentary making-of). Director: Santiago Pabón
Lo que no se dice is a documentary by Santiago Pabón that draws on his own experience of suffering severe burns. Through the testimonies of nine people with functional diversity, it accompanies them in their daily lives, revealing their strengths, the stereotypes they face, and others’ pitying gazes toward their bodies.

8:00 p.m. Screenings

Prisma (short film / fashion film). Director: Sebastián Giraldo
Prisma is a striking fashion film by Sebastián Giraldo that uses a Rubik’s Cube as a metaphor for transformation. An overwhelmed office worker enters the cube and takes on different personalities, represented through looks inspired by the 1980s and 1990s.

Misantropia (mid-length film). Director: Besel Said
Misantropia is a mid-length film by Besel Said that closes a trilogy begun in 2023. It follows Vanessa in a hostile industrial setting, built through models, geometries, and an aesthetic marked by contrast and color distortion. The imagery and a soundtrack blending opera and electronic music construct its universe — fully subjective, overwhelming, and sensational.