Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 2026 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Video screening cycle
Context area
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Opening Vision_Santander
/ TONI SERRA *) ABU ALI
From La Vorágine and OVNI, we will offer 2 events
The Language of Birds
SANTANDER: Thursday, April 9 from 7:30 to 9:30
at the Santander headquarters of the Cantabria Film Library (c/ Bonifaz 6)
with a program of various video creations by our friend and colleague Toni Serra* ) Abu Ali
and the following day, we will present the book
Opening Vision. The Legacy of Toni Serra
SANTANDER: Friday, April 10 from 7:30 to 9:30
Editorial La Vorágine ( C. Cardenal Cisneros, 69, Santander )
Toni Serra *) Abu Ali was not only one of the most relevant authors and video artists of his generation, but also a co-founder of the Observatory of Unidentified Video. Above all, he was an explorer and seeker of light within a contemporary mysticism, accustomed to diving into the waters of audiovisual and poetic peripheries. His work and life bear witness to an attitude of honest commitment to our time.
The book Abrir la Visión brings together a collection of writings by collaborators, accomplices, and various friends from a rich and heterogeneous community. The intention was to weave voices together to trace a journey that crosses all kinds of spiritual and aesthetic landscapes: from Barcelona in the late eighties, we travel to New York in the nineties, and from there we walk toward Marrakech in the early two-thousands. Through his illustrations, Miguel Brieva gives form to this vital and artistic journey, endowing it with the tone of a legend that, paradoxically, feels very close.
The presentation of the book Abrir la Visión will be conducted by Rosa Llop, Simona Malatesta and Gabriel Villota .
The book has been published by La Vorágine and is now available for online purchase .
The Language of Birds
With Gabriel Villota , Rosa Llop and Simona Malatesta from OVNI
At the Cantabria Film Library / Free entry until full capacity
Pura Fe. USA-Spain, 1991. 7’.
Los Sures, Brooklyn, New York. A solitary Puerto Rican preacher.
Interzona, Spain, 1996, No dialogue 7’.
The search for light finds fire.
Minnesota 1943, Spain, 1996, No dialogue 7’.
In 1943, the University of Minnesota conducted, commissioned by the U.S. Army, a psychological test for the selection of officers.
Perro Corazón, Morocco, 1998, 29’, VOSE.
Conversations at Bar La Poste with Tangier writer Mohammed Chukri and New York poet Ira Cohen—stories of death, estrangement and loss under the mantle of friendship.
Dar al Ajira. Morocco, 2004 . VOSE. 5’.
Fate has the width of a span and a half, the width of a grave.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
English
Script(s)
Latin