[FROM THURSDAY 6th OF NOVEMBER TO SUNDAY 16th OF NOVEMBER. Antiguo Hospital de Santa María la Rica / Sala Capilla]
ALCINE Archive: Zulueta: Alcalá – NY. A Rapturous Evening
1964.A young bourgeois man from San Sebastián travels to New York City to train as a painter and illustrator. His name is Iván Zulueta, and he is 19 years old.
1989.The young man is now in his forties, living reclusive and nocturnal, like a vampire, in his tower at the Edificio España. A film critic and a festival director visit him night after night to watch his short films, photographs, and drawings. Their goal: to publish the first monograph on his work for the Alcalá de Henares Film Festival.
2021.The Spanish Film Archive (Filmoteca Española) acquires Iván Zulueta’s personal archive. Among his belongings lies a worn-out notebook with the inscription: Bilbao–New York. 2025.The publishing house Pepitas de Calabaza releases Iván Zulueta. New York Diary, edited and annotated by film scholars Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Labayen. 2025. Producer Enrique López Lavigne and journalist–screenwriter Marta Medina decide to shoot a hybrid documentary about Iván’s legacy. The legendary director and Zulueta’s friend, Jaime Chávarri, joins them.
2025.ALCINE 54 brings together all of them in a rapturous evening paying tribute to Iván Zulueta — through books and films.
ALCINE Archive: Iván Zulueta. The Avant-garde Facing the Mirror
In addition to beginning the digitization of his bibliographic heritage, we highlight the festival’s documentary legacy through a brief exhibition of pieces and materials from its archive related to the filmmaker from San Sebastián — true treasures that will later be donated to the Spanish Film Archive for preservation.
The Last Rapture
The Last Rapture, the debut feature by the duo formed by journalist and screenwriter Marta Medina and producer Enrique López Lavigne, with the special collaboration of Jaime Chávarri, is a hybrid of reality and fiction — a meta-cinematic true crime that seeks to answer the final mystery Zulueta left behind.
