In this masterclass, Marta begins with a simple yet unsettling idea: something is breaking. Something is fading, ending — and at the same time, something is cracking open.
She approaches the world as a wounded space — marked by fractures, breaches, and fissures. This leads her to a question: if the world is wounded, should we seek — or even create — wounded images? Should we find ways to disrupt the images we already have to construct a more honest vision of our reality?
What does it mean today to look — at others, at landscapes, at ourselves — when everything we see, remember, and embody carries traces of that wound?
As Leonard Cohen once sang, “There’s a crack in everything… that’s how the light gets in.”
During the encounter, Marta Andreu will bring together images (from painting, photography, and cinema), along with poetry, ideas, and music, to think collectively — and aloud — about cinema through one key notion: transformation.
Speakers:
Marta Andreu is a filmmaker, producer, and educator working at the intersection of cinema creation and reflection. She runs Walden, a space dedicated to thinking and making cinema, and teaches workshops, seminars, and lectures internationally. She is a tutor and expert at Eurodoc, Torino FilmLab, Open Doors, and Biennale College.
Her practice includes leading cross-disciplinary labs focused on portraiture (Spain), landscape, and memory (Chile, Colombia). From 2000 to 2016, she coordinated the Master's in Creative Documentary at UPF (Barcelona), later leading the DocMontevideo pitching workshop (2009–2024) and serving as a jury member of the World Cinema Fund (2010–2025).
As a producer, she has worked on internationally acclaimed documentaries presented at major festivals, including Visions du Réel, Berlinale, IDFA, CPH, IFFR, and FICCI.
In 2025, she published her first book on cinema, The Butterfly Catcher. In early 2026, she obtained her PhD in Film from the University of the Arts London, engaging with the concept of “solastalgia” to reflect on the sense of belonging to images.
The masterclass will offer insights into her approach to cinema as a space of transformation, combining artistic practice, critical thinking, and cross-disciplinary research
