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Blanca Serrano San Segundo

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Blanca Serrano San Segundo (Madrid) es Graduada en Filosofía (UAM), graduada en Bellas Artes (UCM), Posgrado en Dirección de Cine (ESCAC) y doctoranda en Bellas Artes, Audiovisuales (UCM), directora de la Productora Guy Blaché Films S,L, y profesora en la Universidad The Core School (Grado en Comunicación Audiovisual). ​​Dirige Guy Blaché S.L.,  productora centrada en diversidad de proyectos audiovisuales, inspirada en la pionera del cine Alice Guy Blaché, la primera directora y productora de cine. 

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Ha realizado estancias universitarias de larga duración en Aalto University (Helsinki, Finlandia), Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Oslo, Noruega), Katholieke University Leuven/KU Leuven (Lovaina, Bélgica) y la Universidad de Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico). Su obra visual y audiovisual ha sido expuesta en Matadero Madrid, en el Palacio Reggio Calabria, Italia, el Museo de Valladolid, así como en Asturias, País Vasco, Madrid, San Juan de Puerto Rico y Helsinki. Durante estas experiencias ha investigado la creciente responsabilidad del espectador audiovisual como parte de la experiencia estética en la era 4.0 y sus repercusiones en la construcción de narrativas. Su investigación se enfoca en los procesos de creación audiovisual o procesos artísticos Film-based-research.

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Experiencia en intervención social en ONGs sobre igualdad. Experiencia en eventos culturales, festivales, podcasts y ponencias a nivel nacional e internacional, uniendo el lenguaje cinematográfico con el arte contemporáneo.

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Dirige y produce obras que propongan una nueva mirada del mundo, acorde a Gadamer, que invoquen una significación mágica, un arte como símbolo y ritual que nos invite a imaginar otro estado posible de las cosas, en línea con la propuesta de Bloch en El principio esperanza.  Como docente y artista audiovisual potencia el pensamiento crítico mediante la exploración de la materialidad. La propuesta del arte como vacío por Oteiza-Heidegger invitando a reflexionar sobre la relación entre lo material y el origen de la violencia en nuestras sociedades actuales, como el coltán, entre otros.

 

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Blanca Serrano San Segundo (Madrid) is a graduate in Philosophy (UAM), a graduate in Fine Arts (UCM), a Postgraduate in Film Directing (ESCAC) and PhD student in Fine Arts, Audiovisual (UCM), director of the production company Guy Blaché Films S.L., and lecturer at The Core School University (Degree in Audiovisual Communication). 

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Blanca serrano heads Guy Blaché S.L., a production company inspired by film pioneer Alice Guy Blaché, the first female film director and producer. She coordinates and produces several audiovisual projects, including innovative stories and narrative techniques that connect us in a global world.

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She has long-term university stays at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland), Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Oslo, Norway), Katholieke University Leuven/KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and the University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico). His visual and audiovisual work has been exhibited in Matadero Madrid, in the Reggio Calabria Palace, Italy, the Museum of Valladolid, as well as in Asturias, Basque Country, Madrid, San Juan de Puerto Rico and Helsinki. During these experiences he has investigated the growing responsibility of the audiovisual spectator as part of the aesthetic experience in the 4.0 era and its repercussions on the construction of narratives.
 

Experience in social intervention in NGOs on equality. Her research focuses on audiovisual creation processes or film-based research artistic processes. Experience in cultural events, festivals, podcasts and lectures. She has experience in social intervention in NGOS on equality. Her research centres on audiovisual creation processes or film-based research artistic processes. She has experience in cultural events, festivals, podcasts, and lectures. Additionally, she has training in sound art, post-production, documentary filmmaking, and audiovisual production. She is currently developing a feature film that combines fiction and documentary and will undertake a research stay in 2025 at the Film & Television School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University (Edinburgh, Scotland). She  also has training in sound art, post-production, documentary and audiovisual production. He is currently developing a feature film combining fiction and documentary, and will undertake a research stay in 2025 at the Film & Television School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University (Edinburgh, Scotland).​

 

Serrano has participated in exhibitions at national and international levels, collaborating on projects that explore the interaction between nature and artistic creation. He has also served as a speaker at cultural events in Spain and abroad. Film language and contemporary art combine to excite and inspire reflection through his works.

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Serrano directs and produces works that propose a new way of seeing the world, in line with Gadamer, invoking a magical significance—an art as symbol and ritual that invites usher possible state of things, reflecting Bloch's proposal in Thed audiovisual artist, she encourages critical thinking through the exploration of materiality. Oteiza-Heidegger's proposal of art as emptiness invites us to reflect on the relationship between the material and the origins of violence in oures, such as coltan, among others.

 

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CV

 

EDUCATION
 

2022-25         PhD Fine Arts, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain

2025                Postgraduate in Film Directing, ESCAC, Barcelona, Spain

2023                BA Fine Arts, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain

2019                 BA Philosophy, University Autonomous of Madrid

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GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIP

 

2023              Doctoral stay, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

2022              MA Contemporary Art & Curating , Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2019               International Scholarship, University of Puerto Rico

2018               Scholarship, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

 

             

EXHIBITIONS/LECTURES

            

2024              Artificial intelligence and gender-based violence: origin, challenges and consequences, Lecturer, Congress

2024             Ana Mendieta, the emptiness of the modern subject, Lecturer, Congress

2024             Performance planting ceremony, Madrid, Spain

2023             Home, City of Kalasatama, City of Helsinki, Finland

2022              Illustration poems, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

2020              Esto sí que es una obra de arte, Matadero, Madrid, Spain

2014               Déjame en Paz, Palacio de la Provincia de Reggio, Calabria, Italy  

                        Sala de Exposiciones Carmen Martín Gaite, 2014.
                        Lo Hace Porque Te Quiere, Valladolid Museum,Spain

2013                Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

                        Casa Junco de Palencia, Spain

                        Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

                        Ayuntamiento de Gijón, Asturias, Spain

                        Ayuntamiento Vitoria-Gasteiz, Vask Country, Spain

 

TEACHING


2024                University Teacher, The Core Entertainment Science School, Madrid, Spain

2020-22          Photography Instructor, Madrid, Spain

2021                  Teaching, Secondary, Community of Madrid, Spain

2020                Arts and crafts, Workshop, Youth centre Madrid City Council, Spain

2018                 Art teacher, Community of Madrid, Spain

 

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