Interview with Still Patient?
VIRUS G INTERVIEW WITH STILL PATIENT? Considered as a stronghold in Gothic Rock resistance, these Germans will be for the first time in Spain’s SGM Fest 2014. Besides a compilation with re-recorded songs, they have also released recently an EP called “Selective Perception”, which undoubtedly will be taken into account in their next visit. Singer and founding member ANDY KOA answers very professionally...
Gothic artists always remain – SGM ART 2014
SGM ART is the space devoted to visual arts inside the Gothic Week of Madrid. The art we might relate to Gothic has always existed since the man was a man. But nowadays gothic art comes mostly from the underground. This fact means that this art is more authentic, deeper, because it’s made from the deepest feeling. In previous editions of SGM ART we have put our eyes on Pre-Raphaelitism, concretely in how it’s reinterpreted by the...
Short Stories for adults and children in Theatriffic 2014
Emma López´ Music for Vampires will sound this year in the Museum of Romanticism, thanks to a beautiful show of oral narration for adults, that gives us a new perspective of the beast through the human being intensity exploration, and reveals that we are the real vampires. In the SGM’s Theatriffic we have “gothified” young people through the spoken word, during the las three years, making them enter in the amazing books world by...
New cinema trends and releases in Ventana Oscura 2014
“Urbex”, the exploration of abandoned places and structures, is one of the subjects that will be addressed this year within the Ventana Oscura. In the last times, this trend has seduced to the filmmakers due to the possibility of telling stories from the solitude and mistery provided by those ghostly places, whose location is never revealed. “Musarañas”, the thriller produced by Alex de la Iglesia, will have a...
Videogames, audiovisual horror and poetry in Literature Meeting SGM 2014
In gothic literature there are specific elements about features and structure, and these elements, beyond the subjects of the novels or short stories, have fed another disciplines like cinema, music, arts or later literary movements. This is what we are going to see this year in the SGM 2014 Literature Meeting, gotic elements in video games, rol games, audiovisual and writers like Julio Cortázar or Jorge Luis Borges. Also, we approach...
Habit makes goth – 2014 G Platform
The variety of styles inside we know such as Gothic Fashion is always present in G Platform, Madrid Gothic Week fashion show. Every designer makes her own readings and interpretations from her motivations and inspirations: literature, films, music, arts, for this reason what we know like urban gothic subculture, and the people who don´t belong to the scene identify like that, be a movement rich in sources and influences. About...