Retrat de Imma Merino

Film critic and cultural journalist

Imma Merino Serrat (Castellfollit de la Roca, 1962) is a Professor of History and Theory of Cinema at the University of Girona and works as a film critic and cultural journalist at El Punt/Avui. She also regularly contributes to the cultural magazine L’Avenç.

She is the author of the book Agnès Varda: espigadora de realidades y de ensueños [Agnès Varda: Gleaner of Realities and Dreams] (Donostia Kultura, 2019), and has co-edited, together with Ariadna Lorenzo, the book Carol: bellesa subversiva del desig [Carol: Subversive Beauty of Desire] (Documenta Universitaria, 2019). She has collaborated in several collective books, including Al otro lado de la ficción. Trece documentalistas españoles contemporáneos [The Other Side of Fiction. Thirteen Contemporary Spanish Documentary Filmmakers] (Chair, 2007) and monographs on Jacques Demy, François Truffaut, Max Ophuls, Jacques Becker and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Last Update: October, 2022

Articles by Imma Merino

Retrat de Carla Simón. © Ferran Forné
“I think that the fear of death is what brings me to make films”

Carla Simón

In Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993), Carla Simón fictionalised her experience of being adopted by her aunt and uncle when she was six years old, following the death of her parents from...

Cartells de la Mostra de Films de Dones
The history of cinema made by women

The book Un trajecte pels feminismes fílmics [A journey through feminisms in film], by Marta Selva and Anna Solà, marks the 30th anniversary of the Barcelona...

Retrat d'Alba Sotorra. © Laura Guerrero
“I make films to show realities differently”

Alba Sotorra

Alba Sotorra Clua (Reus, 1980) makes documentary films out of a desire to become acquainted with realities and provide a different perspective to the one conveyed by the Western media...

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