//Researcher & writer
//April 2025
Born in Madrid, Spain, Gracia holds a degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a PhD in Film Studies from Napier University in Edinburgh. She is a tenured lecturer in film history and criticism at the University of the Arts London (UAL). Gracia has published a book on the cultural policy of the US government during the Cold War and its relationship with independent and experimental cinema. She has researched the history of documentaries and newsreels in the run-up to the Second World War. Gracia has also published articles on the role of memory in the films of Víctor Erice, the use and re-signification of found footage with propagandistic and feminist motifs, and the commemoration of the Berlin Wall in exhibitions of a global nature. She also writes art reviews and texts for artists' catalogues and maintains an artistic practice using a variety of media such as drawing, painting, paper and cardboard collage, tapestry, embroidery and screen printing.
Residency at El Boga
Gracia was a resident at El Boga Casa Taller between July and August 2023, where she began a project that sought to recover the memory of the filming of the movie Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Francesco Rosi, 1987) among the inhabitants of Mompox, resulting in a documentary. She is currently writing an essay compiling part of that research and reflecting on different ways of approaching the past and the relationship between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. In this second residency, Gracia seeks to reconnect with the people and traditions of Mompox to delve deeper into some of the themes that form part of the essay and to learn first-hand about Momposino traditions such as Holy Week.
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