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  • Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest

  • ABYCINE Albacete Film Festival

  • Gijón International Film Festival

  • Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival

Synopsis

Spanish and Catalan with English subtitles

With Violeta Rodríguez, Albert Pla, Laura Corbacho Garrido, Gonzalo Ramos, Yolanda Sey Asare, Josep Julien Ros, Laura Roig Farrás, Arnau Comas Quirantes

Situated between fiction and documentary, The Revolution of the Muses reclaims the women silenced by the history of Western art.

The film highlights their close relationships with so-called great geniuses, positioning them as true co-creators. Iconic artists from the past are reimagined in a contemporary context to question their prejudices and to expose the abuses of power they exercised over their muses.

Directed by Mar Nantas, Yaiza de Lamo, and Juno Álvarez, this modern reinterpretation sheds light on the persistence of these dynamics today, inviting a critical reassessment of power structures within the art world.

About the Director
Mar Nantas (Maria L. Paniagua) is a filmmaker and screenwriter with a BA in Art History at Universidad de Barcelona and a master’s degrees in Creative Documentary at Universidad de Autónoma de Barcelona and Fiction for Film and TV at the Blanquerna. Selected for the ESCAC-Netflix Inclusive Creativity Scholarship (2023–24), she co-directed DIYSEX, taught on Naomi Uman’s cinema, and premiered her first feature The Revolution of the Muses at Atlàntida Film Festival. She now works in ESCAC’s Screenwriting Department.

Juno Álvarez, a Creative Documentary graduate from UAB, co-directed the award-winning DIYSEX, worked in sound design for various films, co-directed The Revolution of the Muses (2024), and is now developing I’m in love with my testo, exploring trans and non-binary identity.

Yaiza de Lamo graduated in Photography and Digital Creation from the UPC with a parallel postgraduate degree in Post-production and Motion Graphics. She then completed a Master’s Degree in Documentary Theory and Practice at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she co-directed the short film DIYSEX. In 2020, she continued her training, finally specializing in cinematography at ECIB. She completed these studies while working at the production company Gusano Films and developing her own projects as a director of photography.

Press

The Revolution of the Muses offers a critical reading of the inherent sexism in art history, from the perspective of reclaiming an archetype—the dissident woman—and using a technique of re-signifying paintings brought to the big screen: the tableau vivant.” – João Borges, Núvol

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