Errotatiba

Name: Errotatiba
Start: 2025-05-09UTC16:00
Location: CINETECA - Sala Azcona

The rotary press

Iratxe Fresneda Delgado

Spain

2024

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Synopsis

From the love story between trees and water come paper and words. However, what water brings, water takes away… With these words begins Errotatiba, an unsettling film that captures the ghosts of absence trapped in the abandoned spaces and objects of the Egin newspaper. The premises, the rotary press and its decaying archive of images conjure memories of labor and political experiences in the history of a newspaper that was shut down under anti-terrorist legislation. The lush vegetation grows oblivious to the spectres of the past and the water continues its course while the images invite us to revisit the closure of a newspaper that the Supreme Court later affirmed did not comply with the law. (RS)

Festivals

2024 - 62 FICX - Festival Internacion de Cine de Gijón - Nacional
2025 - Cinequest Film 6 Creativity Festival
2024 - Zinebi - Festival Internacional De Cine Documental y Cortometraje De Bilbao - Official Selection

Director biography

Iratxe Fresneda Delgado

Arrigorriaga, 1974. As part of a new generation of female directors trained where audiovisual research and working in the industry meet, her work has achieved major national and international impact in recent years. An associate professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication at the University of the Basque Country since 2004, she has been a researcher and guest lecturer at the University of Nevada, at CUNY in New York, at the University of Lund (Sweden) and at Toulouse II - Le Mirail.
Inspired by “the forgotten archives”, her film work focuses on recording the stories of the real from a personal perspective. Her first feature film, Irrintziaren oihartzunak (2016), premiered at the 64th San Sebastián Film Festival, the first installment of the trilogy La trilogía del registro, followed by Lurralde hotzak-Cold Lands (2018) and ending with Tetuán (2022).
She is currently working on the development of the feature film Bide guztiak. Errotatiba is her first short film.