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Building Fiction: Production Design and Art Direction in Film
The event will feature Antxón Gómez, an art director and production designer, known for his longstanding collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar, including his latest film, Amarga Navidad. Enric Pastor, co-founder and editorial director of MANERA, will moderate the conversation.
The conversation stems from a collaboration developed within the framework of the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Basque Architecture Institute, creating a space for dialogue between cinema, architecture, and design.
The event will invite reflection on the relationship between art direction and cinema. Antxón Gómez’s contribution will explore this connection from different perspectives, including the role of design in cinematic storytelling, the significance attributed to specific objects and the process behind their selection, the choice of filming locations—with particular attention to houses—and the conceptual reasoning underpinning these decisions.
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Enric Pastor is a journalist, editor, and consultant specializing in architecture, interior design, design, and contemporary culture. He is co-founder and Editorial Director of MANERA, a design, interior design, and architecture magazine with editions in Spain, Mexico, and Benelux, through which he promotes a cross-disciplinary perspective on spaces, objects, and ways of living.
Between 2014 and 2021, he was Editorial Director of AD Spain, a period during which he consolidated the magazine as one of the country’s leading publications on architecture, design, and interior design. Throughout his career, he has worked on editorial projects and creative direction, as well as collaborating with cultural institutions, studios, architects, and international brands.
His work combines cultural communication, critical analysis, and a particular focus on the relationship between architecture, visual culture, and everyday life. He is also the author and curator of projects related to design and interiors, and regularly participates in conferences, juries, and public conversations on architecture, creativity, and contemporary culture.
Antxón Gómez Santander is a prominent Spanish production designer and art director. Since 1981, he has worked on national and international projects directed by, among others, Bigas Luna, Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Susan Seidelman, Manel Huerga, Dominik Moll, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone. He has combined this work with pioneering projects in interior design and advertising. He has been a close collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar since 1996, having worked on the production design of eleven of his films and two short films. Throughout this period, he has witnessed and contributed to the evolution of the global audiovisual industry since Spain’s post-transition era.
He has received the Barcelona Film Award, the Goya Award for Best Art Direction, the European Film Award for Best Production Design, the Platino Award for Best Art Direction, and the Artistic Design Award at the Escala Awards (2024). He has also received the FAD Interior Design Award.
Appointed by the European Film Academy as Europe’s Principal Producer Designer for its Chapter, his work is distinguished by the meta-narrative value of objects and by an oneiric and mnemonic recreation of the home—a methodology that has been the subject of a doctoral thesis.
Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 14:00
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