11 short Spanish animated films look to Europe with the online project 'puente, illustrated encounters'

Selected by Mauro Entrialgo

The initiative, which is part of the cultural program of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, is a transversal project through illustration and comics.

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Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E), with the support of Ministry of Culture and Sports, launches the project online 'bridge, illustrated meetings', devised and produced by Book Snatch.

It is a set of 11 short animation pieces made by Spanish comic and illustration artists whose protagonists are traditions, arts and artists, instruments, stories and places that will make visible little-known and unique aspects that unite the citizens of the European Union.

The selection of the artists has been made by the artist and cartoonist Mauro Entrialgo. The creators participating are Álvaro Ortega, Cristina Daura, Grillante, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Javi de Castro, Laura Pérez Vernetti, María Medem, Miguel Brieva, Olga Capdevila, Ricardo Cavolo and Víctor Coyote; the musicians Diego Galaz, Germán Díaz, Javier Álvarez, Mariona Sagarra; and specialists such as Joaquín López Bustamante, Karlos Aizpurúa, Óyeme Studio or Xose Ambás.

The pieces tell local, traditional, small-scale, seemingly unconnected stories, with a literary link and with Europe, representing the national spectrum, and with the common denominator of showing the closeness between Spain and Europe.

Starting July 20 and until the end of December, they will be put into circulation through the social networks of Spanish Cultural Action, Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Ministry of Culture and Sports and Arrebato Libros, and the different stories will also be hosted at https://www.accioncultural.es/es/puente-encuentros-ilustrados

The series opens with 'Silbo, from La Gomera to Tyrol' by Olga Capdevila, an animated piece in which the author recreates a vocal journey between two of the most distant populations in Europe, with the aim of making visible two of the most ancient communication systems on the continent.