La Tristura was born from Celso Giménez author of texts awarded in 2018 with Injuve Award and the Max Award in 2012; Itsaso Arana, actress and set designer and coauthor of several films and Violeta Gil. They were later joined by actress Fernanda Orazi and Pablo Und Destruktion, musician author who gravitates in the sphere of Folk and avant-rock with to his credit more than three hundred concerts around the world. It is considered one of the most interesting and avant-garde companies of contemporary Spanish theater of the last decade. They’ve created, among others, CINE (at FIT in 2019, read more and watchthe after-show talk), Materia Prima and Años 90.

Critics say of them that: “they have the most beautiful images and the harshest texts”. El País evokes both Robert Lepage (for the road-movie atmosphere) and Milo Rau (for the documentary aspect). At the intersection of such influences, La Tristura has sought its own very personal poetics.

The “Lacasinegra” collective goes even further: «I don’t know what García Lorca, Alberti or Cernuda felt during the homage to Góngora at the Athenaeum in Seville in 1927. Nor what Chabrol, Godard, Truffaut or Rohmer felt after the premiere of The 400 Blows in Cannes in 1958. But it may have been something similar to what we felt when we saw the latest work of La Tristura.»

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CINE
2019 Edition
24.09 – 06.10