Private Project

Artistiña

Artistiñas project is a documentary based on the experience during the DSK residences for artists in the MAC Museum. Shows the artistic and cultural scene site during a period of crisis has not yet passed. How do artists survive the crisis? Why are they attending residencies? Is Spain a good country supporting artists?

  • Belén Montero (DSK)
    Director
  • Juan Lesta (DSK)
    Director
  • Belén Montero
    Writer
  • Belén Montero
    Producer
  • Koroiev (Roberto Casteleiro)
    Music
  • Alberte Branco
    Image
  • DSK (Juan Lesta & Belén Montero)
    Image
  • Vanesa Castro & Iñaki López (Für Alle Falle)
    Artist protagonist
  • NIN9
    Artist protagonist
  • Carmen F. Rivera
    Artist protagonist
  • Iria do Castelo
    Artist protagonist
  • Ricardo O'Nascemento
    Artist protagonist
  • Jeremy Keenan
    Artist protagonist
  • Miguel Mariño
    Artist protagonist
  • Anxela Caramés
    Artist protagonist
  • Ángel Rueda (S8)
    Artist protagonist
  • Enrique Lista
    Artist protagonist
  • Ánxela Blanco & Claudia Delso (Casa Tomada)
    Artist protagonist
  • Edu Albo
    Artist protagonist
  • Feli Guzmán
    Artist protagonist
  • Sandra Sánchez
    Artist protagonist
  • Nilo Casares
    Artist protagonist
  • Manuel Segade
    Artist protagonist
  • Roberta Venanzi
    Artist protagonist
  • Paula Freire
    Artist protagonist
  • Antía Otero
    Artist protagonist
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Artistiña
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Art, Life
  • Runtime:
    1 hour
  • Completion Date:
    December 22, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    HD1080
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Esferobite SC (Belén Montero & Juan Lesta Company)
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Belén Montero (DSK), Juan Lesta (DSK)

DSK
(Belén Montero & Juan Lesta)
Artists, filmmakers and music lovers, since 1999
www.esferobite.com/laboratorio
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at this moment in A Coruña (Spain)

Only Exhibitions

ANALOGIC T-TRIS CODECO
Atélier Room First Floor. Musée Pompidou Metz. France
Programmed by the Anne-Marine Guiberteau
Feb-Jul. 2011

CODECO coded - decoded - coded (codificado - decodificado - codificado)
inside de project: EDITION PROJECT (Proxecto Edición).
Ground floor rooms. Fundación Luís Seoane. A Coruña. Spain.
Curated by Manuel Olveira / DSK
Nov. 2008 - Jan. 2009

CODECO coded - decoded - coded (codificado - decodificado - codificado)
inside de project: ACTUALITY FUTUR - EDITION PROJECT (O futuro da actualidade - Proxecto Edición).
Interior basement room. CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Curated by Manuel Olveira
Sep-Dec. 2006

CODECO coded - decoded - coded (codificado - decodificado - codificado)
Sala Petita La Capella de l'Antic Hospital. Ajuntament Barcelona. Spain
Programmed by Oriol Güal Dalmau.
Jun-Sep. 2004

Some Exhibitions

ACRE TV: RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE
ACRE Residency, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Programmed by Joseph Herring, Kera MacKenzie, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Nov-Dec. 2016

GALICIAN'S SHORT EXHIBITION (Muestra de Corto Gallego)
La Casa del Cine MX. Mexico.
Programmed by La Casa del Cine MX.
Dic. 2015

REFLECTIONS. CGAC COLLECTION (REFLEXIÓNS. COLECCIÓN CGAC)
CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Curated by Christina Ferreira Andrade
Jul-Oct. 2015

SINAIS EN CURTO: 6ª MOSTRA de Cinema Periférico S8
CGAC Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe. A Coruña. Spain.
Programmed by Ángel Rueda and Elena Duque
Jun. 2015

EXCUSA ARGUMENTAL
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa. A Coruña. Spain
Curated by Ignacio García Gómez del Valle
Jan. 2015

LOOP FESTIVAL
Calders Bookshop, Barcelona. Spain
Curated by Carlota Fraga
Jun. 2014

GALLAECIA PÉTREA: Modern Age Videocreations
Museo de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Curated by Ana Goy Diz
Oct. 2012- mars 2013

ESCALES DOCUMENTAIRES. DOC-OUT
Festival International Documentaire de Crèation. La Rochelle. France.
Programmed by the Festival.
Nov. 2012

THE MIRACRE OF SERIAL Z (El Milagro de la Serie Z)
Videoart on big screen. Hamaca Media & Videoart Distribution. Cinema Maldá. Barcelona.
Curated by Mery Cuesta.
Oct. 2012

B SIDES OF VIDEOART HISTORY IN SPAIN. (Caras B de la Historia del videoarte en España)
Internacional Itinerant Exhibition by the Instituto Cervantes.
Curated by Nekane Aramburu & Carlos T. Mori.
2011-2012.

Interferències’10 OPERACIÓ SUPERVENDES
Sala Muncunill (Arts visuals). Terrassa. Barcelona. Spain
Curated by Pilar Cruz
Jan-Jun 2011

eBENT'10 Performance Festival
Palau de La Virreina. Centre de la Imatge. Barcelona. Spain.
Curated by Carlos Pina.
nov. 2010.

KASSELER DOK FEST
Festival Internacional. Kassel. Germanie.
Programmed by the Festival.
Nov. 2009

VIDEOLISBOA
5º International video festival. Lisboa. Portugal.
Programmed by the Festival.
Sept. 2005.

VIDEOEX TRASHT HIGHT
Festival ShortFilm. Hamburg / Zürich. Switzerland.
Programmed by the Festival.
May 2004

ART EXHIBITION INJUVE: Pasos de cebra
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Spain
Curated by Juan Guardiola and Rosa Pera
2001.

VIDEOFormes, ARS VIDEO ET MULTIMEDIA
Festival International D'Arts Numériques. Clermont-Ferrand. Francia.
Programmed by the Festival.
2000

LOST IN SOUND
CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Curated by Manuel Olveira
Mars.1999

Artist residencies

LOCAL ARTIST'S RESIDENCE
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa. A Coruña. Spain
Oct-Nov. 2013

RESIDENSY FOR ARTISTS
HANGAR centre / produció / recerca / arts.visuals
Production center and investigations of arts visuals. Barcelona. Spain
Oct.-Dec. 2009

Teaching

Postgrade in Videoart and applications in the spectacle arts.
University of Comunication Blanquerna Ramón-Llul and MACBA. Museo de art contemporani Barcelona. Spain.
Directed by Eugeni Bonet.
2006.

Some awards / mentions / adquisitions

FARCUME International Festival
Honor mention of Jury with the artistic music video "Cianuro Disco Funk" , with music of Un Poquito de Cianuro Band.
Faro. Portugal.
2014

DÍAZ PARDO Awards: Colection Deputación da Coruña
Adquired pieces: "Cine_ASCIIart paisaxe_01425 (2009)" & "Pantalla azul de la muerte CODECO" (2006)
A Coruña. Spain.
2009

FILM SHORTS ON THE NET (Curtas na rede)
Best experimental video for "Anim 01"
Competition organized for de Galician Regional Government. Xunta de Galicia.
Santiago de Compostela. Spain.
2009

VAD video i arts dixitals
Secound award for "Twin Power" artistic music video for the musicians Alma X.
Girona. Spain.
2004

VISUALSOUND YOUNG CREATION FESTIVAL (Festival de Creació Jove)
First award for "Twin Power" artistic music video for the musicians Alma X.
Barcelona. Spain.
2004

VISUALSOUND YOUNG CREATION FESTIVAL (Festival de Creació Jove)
Netart activisme - Interactius
Special Mention of Jury with "Web en papel CODECO".
Barcelona. Spain.
2004.

SHORT FILM FESTIVAL of Balearic Islands
First audience award MTV for the music video "Eternamente Inocente" for the band Fangoria.
Mallorca. Spain.
2001

YOUNGS FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL (Festival de Jóvenes Realizadores)
First award for "Bailando", artistic music video for the band Astrud.
Zaragoza. Spain.
2000

AUDIOVISUAL FESTIVAL Vitoria-Gasteiz
Acquisition award for "M-09" videoart with music for The Drip.
Vitoria-Gasteiz. Spain.
2000

ALACANT' 99
First award for "Dualidad" videoart music video for the musician Prozack.
Festival Videocreación Alicante. Spain.
1999

Publications (books)

ARTE CODECO by Belén Montero / Juan Lesta
Ed. Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Cultura e Deporte
CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2006

Some collective DVD publications

"Bailando". Astrud. included in DVD Eclectia: Un panorama del videoclip nacional contemporáneo. (A state about the national contemporany music video) Programmed by Luis Cerveró. Ed. Sincrónica-Malvalanda. 2007

"Miro la vida pasar". Fangoria. included in DVDs: Los 101 mejores videoclips del Universo. (The 101 best music videos of the Universe). Ed. Crónicas Marcianas, Magazine Tele5. Warner Music. USA. 2004 & DVD's: Ñ, Los éxitos del año. (Ñ, The Exits of the Year) Ed. Dro East West SA. Warner Music. USA. 2004

"O Tempo Perdido" included in Plug:in DVD, Nuevos Realizadores. (New filmmakers) Programmed by Adriana Chen, Free your Mind. Ed. Revista Visual (spñ Shot). Madrid. 2003

Add Director Biography
Director Statement

What is DSK?
Under this name, Belén Montero and Juan Lesta work since 99 as filmmakers, directors and directors of visual art projects related to music. They are founders, creative and business partners of Esferobite, an audio visual Galician company.
Have directed their activities towards the video clip, video, multimedia, installation and live video, receiving many awards and endorsements of national and international levels.
Among others have made video clips for important spanish artists as Fangoria or Astrud. They have produced pieces viedocreación, among others, the show INJUVE, Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Fundación Luis Seoanane, Museo do Mar de Galicia, Hangar, Caixa Galicia in Spain. They have exhibited their work at CGAC, La Capella, Fundación Luis Seoane, MAC, (in Spain) Pompidou Metz (in France)... among others. They have pieces in the collection of the CGAC, Artium-Injuve and Ministry of Culture of the Xunta de Galicia.
Projects: www.codeco.org about about analogized artistics objects, videos...
www.iconoscopio.net, blog whith musicians.
www.peninsulaxy.net, an experiment GPS.
www.versogramas.com, about videopoetry.
More videos: vimeo.com/esferobite