MARTÍ MADAULA ESQUIROL

Martí Madaula is an artist and researcher. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, an MFA in Visual Arts from LUCA School of Arts in Ghent (Belgium), and an MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of the Extraordinary Prize in Fine Arts (UB, 2019) and a “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship (2021), his films have premiered at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight (Tramuntana, 2025) and Visions du Réel (The Living Wardrobe, 2024). He has taken part in artist residencies at the Centre Pompidou and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), exhibiting his work internationally. He combines audiovisual production with academic research. He is currently a PhD candidate in Communication at Pompeu Fabra University, where he develops an applied research dissertation on the disembodied voice as a central figure in science-fiction and essay filmmaking, examining how it articulates contemporary sociotechnical transformations. He is part of the CINEMA research group as a predoctoral researcher funded through the FI-SDUR program of the Government of Catalonia.

Research lines:

-Comparative cinema

-Cinema and the other arts

-Visual motifs in cinema: iconology, gesture, and figuration in audiovisual media

-Myth criticism and narratology

-Feminist theories and practices

-Cinemas of the real and creative documentary

-Applied research in audiovisual creation and education