Videos, computer animation, and auteur documentary films had a prominent place in this festival; there even was a competition for them.
In 1998, CD-ROM and Internet creations were added to the competition, in an attempt to include the new artistic languages that emerged from the use of new technologies.
The Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival welcomed artists working in the new media as well as programmers and scholars who reflected about the changes in the industry.
Carlos Muguiro was the curator of the retrospectives dedicated to José Val del Omar (1997) and Alexander Sokurov (1999).
The year 2005 marked the beginning of a new stage: the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival was created.
In order not to disappear from the map for 24 consecutive months, the management body of the festival decided to develop seminars every other year (2012 and 2014).
The festival takes its name from the "punto de vista documentado" (documented perspective) about which the filmmaker used to talk, and since 2007, we have been presenting the Jean Vigo award to the best director.On the frontier between silent film and the talkies, at a time when historic vanguards needed renovation so as not to fall into repetitive and academic patterns, outside of artistic circles and movements, and from a strange solitude shared with his wife Lydu Lozinska, Jean Vigo approached cinema with the daring of an amateur.
He was perhaps the first person capable of demonstrating, as Miguel Marías wrote, the compatibility "between the two basic trends into which film is artificially split: photographic, objective, neutral, realistic, documentary and non-narrative; and theatrical, subjectivist, fantastical and manipulating, fictional and progressively interested in the dramatic construction of the story and the stylisation of images".
But more than that, his was a labour of the future: in Jean Vigo's cinema, some of the most innovative and vigorous seams that run through film in general and non-fiction in particular can be glimpsed.
His cinema spans decades, cinematographic movements and generations and strike us every time as a fascinating exercise in modernity.