Eli CORTIÑAS HIDALGO

Dial M for Mother Video installation | DVD | color | 11'30'' | Spain / Germany | 2008 © A persisting phone ringing goes across Dial M for Mother and dominates the sound and visual scene as well as the figure of Gena Rowlands who fights while being chased by the persecuting ringing. A voice is heard talking to her as someone who seems to be a mother. Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo presents in her final work at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne a fascinating tour de force through the depth of human psychology. The mother-daughter conflict on the surface reveals himself more and more as the struggle of a human being longing for identity and autonomy as well as a role in life. A struggle which can either be win nor lost, within a vicious circle of a never ending life fight, with the attempt to find a solution by becoming a „play“ and rescuing himself from the emptiness directly into the stage floor. Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo was born in 1976 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. From 2003 to 2008, she studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. From 2001 to 2002, she studied at the European Film College, DK. She was nominated for the German Shortfilm award 2008 in Gold for experimental film, Berlin and was awarded the Promotion Price of the Big Art Exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia 2006, Düsseldorf. List of exhibition, filmography... film/ video I AM THE RABBIT!, 3 channel video, to be completed 2009 BIRD, CHERRY, LOVER, 2 channel video, to be completed 2009 DIAL M FOR MOTHER, 2 channel video, 2008 LOVERS – ALL THE SAME IN FRONT OF GOD, 1 channel video, 2007 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNEW ABOUT HER, experimental film , 2006/ 2007 NO PLACE LIKE HOME, 2 channel video for monitor installation, 2006 FAMILIAR FACES, experimental film/ animation, 2003 BUÑUEL´S DREAM, experimental film, 2001 exhibitions/ screenings/ festivals 2009 Nominated for the Art Students Competition Show, Kunst- u. Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany BIRD, CHERRY, LOVER, solo show, Michael Wiesehöfer Gallery, Cologne, Germany 2008 THERE WILL BE NO FUNERAL, solo show, eraum, Cologne, Germany DOCUMENTAL, group show, Guggenheim Gallery, L.A. ZUR ZEIT, group show, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria MINUS EINS, group show, Minus Eins experimental Lab, curated by Mischa Kuball, Cologne, Germany LUX, Max Ophüls Price, experimental film / video program, Saarbrücken, Germany L ́Alternativa, Barcelona, Spain Short Cuts Cologne, Cologne, Germany 2007 LOOP, video art fair, Barcelona, Spain CROPPED, group show, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany RETTUNG OHNE UNTERGANG, group show, Deutzer Brücke, Cologne, Germany XXX FORUM – video art program, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Int. Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany TRAVELLER AUF REISE WOHNEN, Sammler Gallery, Leipzig, Germany INVITED: VIDEO ART, Junge Kunstfreunde, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 2006 GUTEN TAG: AUF WIEDERSEHEN, group show, Mason Gross School of Arts, New Jersey, U.S.A. LAB 30, 5th Augsburger Art Lab, Augsburg, Germany BIG ART EXHIBITION NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, exhibition due to Promotion Price, Düsseldorf, Germany KÖLN KUNST 7, group show, Cologne, Germany Docfilm festival Leipzig (Competition), Leipzig, Germany Oldenburg Film Week, Oldenburg, Germany Filmfest Augenweide, Kiel, Germany Mediawave, Ungarn Int. Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, Korea Film Tournee Unterwegs, all over Germany Feminale, Cologne, Germany Nordic Film Week, Lübeck, Germany Matinee Central, Berlin, Germany