The Institute of Culture (IUC), in collaboration with the Civic Center Convent de Sant Agustí, is organizing the first session of the cycle In fieri: Translating images, dedicated to artistic research in audiovisual creation, on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m.

In fieri: Translating images

Session I. Documentary film: creative processes and work with images

With filmmakers Paula Giménez Monar and Bernadette Weber
and mediation by Júlia Lull

Thursday March 27th – 7:30 p.m. – C. C. Convent de Sant Agustí (Pl. Acadèmia, Born)
Free access

Filmmakers Bernadette Weber and Paula Giménez Monar offer a practical session based on their experience in audiovisual creation. The images of both artists take center stage in a meeting where the term “documentary” is called into question. What tensions and ambiguities arise in the creative processes of non-fiction cinema? Who translates reality, and what is translated? To whom do the images belong? Where do they come from?

The dialogue between the filmmakers through their images invites us to question the representative function of non-fiction and to reflect on the tensions that surface in the creative process: between the subject and the object, between encounter and discovery, between data and archive, between personal images and external materials, between research and intuition.

The images, in which the hope for understanding is placed, position both the artist and the audience in the foreign land of what exceeds all representation, all reconstruction. What processes, practices, and forms of translation do these images demand? How do the filmmakers care for them and accompany them in order to do them justice?

Paula Giménez Monar

Paula Giménez Monar (Valencia, 1989) studied Documentary Filmmaking at ESCAC and completed a Master’s in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities at the University of Barcelona (UB). She currently works as an editor and teaches audiovisual and video workshops. Her first short film, Verano (2012), was selected for the Visual Arts call of the Sala d'Art Jove and screened at the Loop festival in Barcelona. Her second, Ante cosas así (2018), was included in the Official Section of Alcances, Festival of Documentary Cinema. Me voy, me voy (Temporal 2021) is her first documentary medium-length film, for which she was awarded the Mirades Prize at the DocsValencia festival.

Bernadette Weber

Bernadette Weber (Graz, 1987) is a documentary filmmaker, audiovisual creator, and researcher. She actively works on international creative documentary productions, as well as in television documentary formats and docu-journalistic contributions. She specialized in documentary filmmaking at the ZeLIG School for Documentary in Bolzano (South Tyrol), graduated in Philosophy from the University of Genoa, and earned a PhD in Humanities (Ethics and Political Philosophy) from Pompeu Fabra University, focusing on communication ethics, metaethics, and social change.

She has worked as a cinematographer and videographer in the documentary, theatrical, and journalistic fields, after starting out as an editor and gaining experience in camera and lighting departments across various cinematic genres. In 2023, she founded Visioni e.U., a production company specializing in documentary cinema. Recently, she has been developing projects with Albolina Film (Italy), Plan C Filmproduktion (Austria), Elemag Pictures (Germany), Abisso Studio (Italy), and Waterfilm (Austria).

Júlia Lull is an art historian, visual culture researcher, and lecturer at UPF. She is the author of Ar(t)queología de una resistencia (Bellaterra, 2024) and La histeria del arte (Tirant, 2025), a founding member of the ULLAL festival of transfeminist photography, and a member of the FEMART collective.