Gloria Vilches

Vilches holds a doctorate in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia, where she also taught Cinema and Communication. Her doctoral dissertation dealt with issues of gender representation and ethnicity from the study of versions of the Carmen myth, a fatal woman stereotype, made in Hollywood between 1915 and 1954. She is also the author of a research entitled Usos, estilos y formatos contemporáneos del audiovisual de apropiación en España, awarded by the Centre de Cultura Montehermoso in Vitoria. Between 2008 and 2009 she coordinated the traveling film cycle From Ecstasy to Overcrowding.  50 years of the other Spanish cinema (CCCB), as well as the DVD edition of its catalog (CAMEO). Since 2009 she has coordinated Xcentric, the CCCB’s experimental film program, among other audiovisual projects at the same center. She regularly teaches about foundfootage as a guest professor in master’s and graduate colleges. She also develops her artistic activity in the collage and super-8 fields.