“Exergo” BY Jorge Moneo Quintana
2024 · color · ES · EU · ES / EN · 20’ · In competition
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A female narrator reads this email, but we don’t know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present.
By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this woman’s voice relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
THE DIRECTOR | JORGE MONEO QUINTANA
Basque Country, 1988.
Graduated in Arts from the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), he has also carried out studies in visual arts and filmmaking at Universitatea de Arta si Design din Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Universidade de Vigo (Uvigo), Galicia; and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia.
He has participated in reknown programmes such as IDFAcademy or Berlinale Talents. In addition to taking part in numerous collective exhibitions, his work has won awards and been screened at international festivals such as DOK Leipzig, IDFA, Punto de
Vista, Malaga Festival, Tirana International Film Festival, FICG-Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara (MEX), Beijing International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen and Filmadrid.
Parallel to his own work as a director, he has also worked as an assistant director in Where is the jungle? (dir. Iván Castiñeiras / prod. LeFresnoy (FRA) / premiere: DocsLisboa 2015); or as an editor in Medusak (dir. Irati Cano / premiere: Zinebi 2022) and in Quando a Terra Foge (dir. Frederico Lobo / prod. Terratreme (PRT) / premiere: 56th Quinzaine des cinéastes, Cannes 2024).
CREDITS
DIRECTED & WRITTEN by Jorge Moneo Quintana
SOUND DESIGN & EDITING: Jorge Moneo Quintana
MAIN VOICE OVER: Elorri Sarasola
ADITIONAL VOICE OVER: Miren Barrena, Ilazki Azaldegi, Elena Montejo
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: Silvia Motilva, Marina Aguiar, Eva González, Irene Bujalance
SOUND MIX: Benito Macías Cantón
CURATORSHIP: Oier Etxeberria & Miriam Alzuri FUNDING: Tabakalera – International Centre for Contemporary Culture
COLLABORATION & SUPPORT: Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
PRODUCTION & COPIES: Kleinen filmak