FORTUNY AND THE MAGIC LANTERN

Fortuny and the Magic Lantern is a documentary about the modern cultural contagions between East and West, narrated from the history of the creations - lamps, fabrics and dresses - designed by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo. 

Mariano Fortuny (1871-1947), artist, scenographer and designer, created his works in the first decade of the 20th century, picking up the rich "orientalist" tradition of the 19th century. The lamps and fabrics evoke that imaginary of fabulous and exotic environments of markets, harems and caravans, which his father, the great Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, had contributed to create.