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"The One Who Walks" ("Quella Che Cammina") is a central female character in Carlo Lizzanis contribution to the neorealist anthology film "L'amore in città" of 1953. Eli Cortiñas' unconventional filmic composition used this figure of an aging, impoverished prostitute as a nucleus an associative montage of self-filmed material, found footage and fragile sculptural constructions circle around to question her own role as a self-responsible individual, as a working class child, as a woman, as a daughter, as an artist.

Eli Cortiñas was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1976. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and has been awarded the Villa Massimo and the Karl Schmidt-Rottluft grant among others. Her work has been presented in solo and group shows at museums such as Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Kunsthalle Budapest, Museum Marta Herford, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Museum La Regenta and MUSAC, Spain, as well as in international festivals such as the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the 2nd Mardin Biennale, the 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the 20th International Curtas Vila Do Conde and the Nashville Film Festival. She lives and works in Berlin.