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THE JOURNAL
A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER'S BLOG
NEW YORK CHARLOTTESVILLE VALENCIA
FEATURE ESSAY
The numbers do not fully absorb. As of this writing, 1,783 cultural heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Among them, 46 have been completely erased. The Ministry of Culture counts 346 artists and 132 media workers dead. PEN Ukraine had already reached 102 cultural figures killed by the end of 2024, and the count has not stopped. These are not collateral casualties. They are the point.
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Into the Whirlpool of History: How a Midnight Collaboration in Massa Became a Criticism of War
A Short Film: While visiting Massa for the premiere of my feature film, The Piccirilli Factor, I was invited to walk through the historic air-raid refuge (rifugio antiaereo) near Piazza Martana. Nestled deep below the Castello Malaspina, the shelter is a massive, hand-hewn empty space. Walking through it, I felt completely sucked into an eddy—a whirlpool of history.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
55 minutes ago2 min read
The Piccirilli Factor Returns Home: A European Premiere in Massa
The Piccirilli Factor celebrates its European premiere in Massa, Italy, as the documentary begins an international tour across museums and cultural institutions.
Heritage Film Project
23 hours ago3 min read
The Curious Case of the Italian Missing Roadkill
Why are there so few wild animals—and almost no roadkill—in Italy? A day driving through Tuscany and Liguria becomes a humorous field expedition into Europe’s carefully curated landscape, ending with an unexpected discovery: the country’s most successful “mammal” is the Panda.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
4 days ago2 min read
Sorolla's Return Journey: From New York to Valencia
More than 200 works by Joaquín Sorolla will travel from New York’s Hispanic Society to Valencia. Their return reveals the cultural relationship between the two cities and introduces Valencians in New York, a documentary exploring the influence of Sorolla, Guastavino, Blasco Ibáñez and Penella on New York.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 294 min read
Guastavino and the Making of Monumental New York
Discover how Valencian architect Rafael Guastavino and his son transformed New York through revolutionary tile vaults found in Grand Central Terminal the City Hall subway station St. John the Divine and many other landmarks.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 269 min read
Universo Montes-Bradley: Conversaciones con Julia Montesoro
Ya está disponible la primera temporada de Universo Montes-Bradley: Conversaciones con Julia Montesoro
Heritage Film Project
Jul 264 min read
The Fish, the Angel, and the Price of Sacrifice: Blasco Ibáñez and Sorolla
From a rainy Boston cemetery where Chadwick turned a Daniel Chester French sculpture into a symphony, Eduardo Montes-Bradley reflects on translation between the arts — and on Blasco Ibáñez and Sorolla, two friends from Valencia whose page and canvas gave us the true price of fish.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 253 min read
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: The Valencian Who Swept New York Off Its Feet
Before Valentino and before Garbo, a writer made in Valencia wrote the stories that launched them. Eduardo Montes-Bradley on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) — the man behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, friend of Sorolla and Benlliure, who conquered New York in 1919 and helped invent modern mass-media fame.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 246 min read
Ignacio Zuloaga: The Other Face of the Spanish Modernist Coin
Writing from Valencia, Eduardo Montes-Bradley finds Zuloaga's canvases in the Museo de Bellas Artes and, from Sorolla's dark twin to the red and black roosters of El gallo negro, traces the two Spains — from the crack of 1898 to the Civil War songs of Republican refugees in Buenos Aires.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 244 min read
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