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Elena Duque

Spanish-Venezuelan Elena Duque is a filmmaker, curator, writer and teacher. As a filmmaker, she has completed several animation and experimental short films, such as Cómo hacer un fanzine, exhibited in the art center CA2M in Madrid, De cara a la galeria, that premiered in Curta 8 (Curitiba, Brasil), La mar salada, programmed in the festivals Transient Visions (New York), Moving (Kioto) and Florid…

Known For

Retrato sentado

Retrato sentado · 2023

Retrato sentado

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Ojitos Mentirosos

Ojitos Mentirosos · 2023

Ojitos Mentirosos

MovieDocumentary

Pintura-acción

Pintura-acción · 2023

Pintura-acción

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Naturaleza muerta

Naturaleza muerta · 2023

Naturaleza muerta

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Valdediós

Valdediós · 2020

Gualterius built a monastery in Valdediós in the 13th century. In Valdediós, there is a wall, there is a horse, there is a path, there is a whole universe. Shot in Super 8 around the Monastery of Santa María de Valdediós in Asturias, the film combines that footage with painted animation and stop-motion collages.

Ñam

Fruits are one of the good things in life. This film is dedicated to their tanginess and sweetness, a jumpy animation of fruits dancing to the rhythm of the song “El mango” by the Venezuelan singer Jesús Sevillano.

Private Collection

Private Collection · 2021

Private Collection

The filmed inventory of a private collection, which can be seen as a dubious art collection, but also as a compilation like those usual in stamp collecting and archeology. Also as a series of objects and documents in the style of memento samples. The emotional catalogue of a life becomes, at the same time, a collectible item in itself.

Portals

Portals · 2025

MovieDocumentary

Portales follows the course of the Guadalete river in Cádiz, Spain: a catalogue of landscapes that hide other landscapes. A collection of inter-dimensional portals (and postcards). Live action and animation fuse, creating an impossible fauna and flora.

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Retrato sentado

Retrato sentado · 2023

Retrato sentado

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Director

Ojitos Mentirosos

Ojitos Mentirosos · 2023

Ojitos Mentirosos

MovieDocumentary

Director

Pintura-acción

Pintura-acción · 2023

Pintura-acción

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Director

Naturaleza muerta

Naturaleza muerta · 2023

Naturaleza muerta

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Director

Valdediós

Valdediós · 2020

Gualterius built a monastery in Valdediós in the 13th century. In Valdediós, there is a wall, there is a horse, there is a path, there is a whole universe. Shot in Super 8 around the Monastery of Santa María de Valdediós in Asturias, the film combines that footage with painted animation and stop-motion collages.

Director

Ñam

Fruits are one of the good things in life. This film is dedicated to their tanginess and sweetness, a jumpy animation of fruits dancing to the rhythm of the song “El mango” by the Venezuelan singer Jesús Sevillano.

Director

Private Collection

Private Collection · 2021

Private Collection

The filmed inventory of a private collection, which can be seen as a dubious art collection, but also as a compilation like those usual in stamp collecting and archeology. Also as a series of objects and documents in the style of memento samples. The emotional catalogue of a life becomes, at the same time, a collectible item in itself.

Director of Photography

Portals

Portals · 2025

MovieDocumentary

Portales follows the course of the Guadalete river in Cádiz, Spain: a catalogue of landscapes that hide other landscapes. A collection of inter-dimensional portals (and postcards). Live action and animation fuse, creating an impossible fauna and flora.

Director

Para Sonia

Para Sonia · 2023

Discover geometric abstraction and color with Sonia Delaunay

Director

Postales

Postales · 2016

Elena Duque, Spain, 2016, video without sound, 3 minutes and 40 seconds. A series of animated postcards from Galicia: the white galleries and buildings of A Coruña, the Coruña Marina and its boats, and the nineteenth-century theme park El Pasatiempo en Betanzos.

Director

A (possible) trip around the world in super 8

A (possible) trip around the world in super 8 · 2021

A (possible) trip around the world in super 8

MovieDocumentary

A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the "s8" boom of the 1970s discuss their work and their first encounters with the medium.

Director

La Mar Salada

La Mar Salada · 2014

A film about the salty Galician sea, accompanied by a medley of barely remembered Asturian sailor songs from a tape by the Luanco’s Bajamar Choir.

Director

Pla y Cancela

Pla y Cancela · 2017

Director

Las Manos misteriosas

Las Manos misteriosas · 2024

Las Manos misteriosas

Completed in 2024. 40 sec, Super 8

Director

MAR DE CORAL

MAR DE CORAL · 2023

A leftovers film. Croquette of own and other's super 8 collected over the years and ordered according to color tones and autobiographical adventures. The result of cutting and splicing pieces of film as a soothing action. -ED

Director

Menta y canela

Menta y canela · 2016

The Guadalquivir River complained one morning / I have to decide between Seville and Triana and I don't know how to choose / Oh, if only I could melt mint and cinnamon into one perfume! (“The River of My Seville”, Lole and Manuel)

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