Bueu, August 12, 2025. – Once again, as part of the festival programme, which will take place between 5 and 20 September, we are organising the Seminars, a space dedicated to reflection on the cinematographic art and the disciplines that surround it. In this 18th edition of FICBUEU the seminars will be devoted to the relationship between music and film, under the title: Music and film. Composition as a narrative element. The activities will take place on Saturday 6 September, and we will host respected professionals who will address different perspectives, analyses and experiences around musical composition in the audiovisual field.
Professionals such as Ana Pfaff and Ernest Pipó will visit Bueu to speak about the music and the editing in Romería, by Carla Simón; and others such as Ana Morote, Gustavo Gill, Iván M. Lacámara, Mara Villavicencio, Alberto Torresand Gabi Martínez will address the creation of film scores and the use of music in audiovisual creation.
The public will be able to learn from film critic Diego Salgado the names of the women composers who made major contributions to the history of film composition, while film-music specialist Conrado Xalabarder will analyse the importance of sound and music in David Lynch‘s cinema.
Professional Meetings
To continue delving into composition as a narrative element, Dialogues on Composition will be held in collaboration with Musimagen (Association of Composers of Music for Audiovisual Media). This activity will consist of three panels in which composers of film scores will converse in pairs about issues related to musical composition for the audiovisual, combining an experienced profile with a more novice one.
Its participants will be Alicia Morote and Gustavo Gill to talk about how to begin composing and the processes of song creation within film; Iván M. Lacámara and Mara Villavicencio, who will focus on the more technological aspect, synthesizers and sonic hybridization; and Alberto Torres and Gabi Martínez, who will address sound design and musical scripting.
Women Film-Score Composers
As another of the activities of these Seminars, film critic and comic-book and popular-culture commentator Diego Salgado will deliver a masterclass in which he will propose a journey through the contributions of women composers to the history of film music. Doreen Carwithen, Shirley Walker, Rachel Portman, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Mica Leviwill be some of the composers featured in this lecture where we will discover the contributions of women to the history of music in film.
The lecture will not only focus on the most recognised figures, but will also attend to cult authors and to the cultural production and social reception circumstances that conditioned the presence of some and others.
Music and Editing in Romería
As previously announced, one of the activities of these seminars will focus on Music and Editing in Romería, which will be the opening film of this 18th edition of the festival. It will be an encounter in which Ana Pfaff (film editor) and Ernest Pipó (composer) will reflect on the joint working processes on Carla Simón‘s film, in a session moderated by Gaspar Broullón and in which there will be a dialogue with the audience about the importance of the synergies between both disciplines.
David Lynch Seen Through the Ears
The Seminars of FICBUEU will also host the activity Film Analysis. David Lynch Seen Through the Ears, in which film-music specialist Conrado Xalabarder will analyse the importance of sound and music in the director’s cinema. Lynch has used both sound and music for artistic purposes, to complete his films and turn them into a unique experience. Using this as a reference, some of his most representative films will be discussed broadly and, in particular, certain scenes will be examined, drawn from Lynchian classics such as The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks (1990) or Mulholland Drive (2001), among others. The encounter will close with the screening of The Grandmother (1970), one of the director’s earliest short films.
These activities are open to the public and free of charge.
Saturday 6. Seminars:
- 11:00 H Professional meetings. Dialogues on Composition
- 16:30 H Masterclass. From Classicism to Modernity: Women Film-Score Composers
- 18:30 H Conversation. Music and Editing in Romería
- 20:30 H Film analysis. David Lynch Seen Through the Ears
