Exergo

Exergo

18 mins | Drama, Documentary | May 4, 2024

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Exergo

18 mins | Drama, Documentary | May 4, 2024

Exergo
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
Producers Kleinen filmak, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture
Original title Exergo
Directors Jorge Moneo Quintana
Writers Jorge Moneo Quintana

Cast

Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran

as female narrator 1 (voice)

Miren Barrena Rebe

as female narrator 2 (voice)

Ilazki Azaldegi

as female narrator 4 (voice)

Elena Montejo

as female narrator 3 (voice)

Silvia Motilva

as Museum worker 1

Marina Aguiar

as Museum worker 2

Eva González

as Museum worker 3

Irene Bujalance

as Museum worker 4