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'Insulae' explores the history of the Canary Islands. Courtesy of Radio Televisión Canaria If the Canary Islands’ audiovisual sector is increasingly pitching itself as both rooted and exportable, a handful of new and recent titles suggest why. Across cultural history, elite sport, climate emergency and intimate observational portraiture, local companies are shaping projects that start from Canarian experience and reach out from there.
At the heritage end stands “Insulae: Chronicle of Our History,” Las Hormigas Negras’ flagship series for Televisión Canaria, now in its second season on Canarias Play. Elsewhere, César Armas’ “Fragile Islands,” from Videoreport Canarias, looks set to push Canarian factual production onto a global climate canvas, moving from the Maldives to the Philippines and Colombia before returning to the islands’ own eroding coasts. David Baute’s “Benigno,” from Tinglado Film, travels in the opposite direction: inward, towards one ageing man.
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