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material. (lat.: materiālis). 1. adj. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary. 2. adj. Derived from or composed of matter. 3. adj. Having material or physical form or substance. 4. adj. Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case. 5. adj. Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being. 6. adj. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests. 7. n. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers. 8. n. Things needed for doing or making something. 9. n. Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form. 10. n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

In 2008, Javier Fernández (1980), Luis López Carrasco (1981) y Natalia Marín (1982) found the artistic collective Los Hijos, devoted to the research of cinematic form and the mechanisms of audiovisual representation. With their first work, El sol en el sol del membrillo, they competed in the official section of DocumentaMadrid. Afterwards, this short film has been selected in several other festivals as well as art galleries. Afterwards, they finished their second short-film, Ya viene, aguanta, riégueme, mátame, video essay that attempts to question certain sequences which have become iconic in the history of Spanish cinema. Los materiales, their first feature-length film won the Jean Vigo award to the best direction in Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre and a Jury?s Special Mention in FidMarseille 2010. Their second, feature-length film, Circo, was selected in the competition section section of Documentamadrid 2010. Currently, all their works are being screened at several contemporary art museums and art centres throughout Spain. In november 2010, Los Hijos enjoyed their first retrospective of their work in Mar del Plata Film Festival.