Jesus Mari Lazkano: From the Canvas to the Cinema with Natura Fugit
Jesus Mari Lazkano: From the Canvas to the Cinema with Natura Fugit
At the 2025 edition of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the animated short film Natura Fugit premiered — created by artist Jesus Mari Lazkano and produced in collaboration with Dibulitoon and Art Frame. For this 22-minute film, Lazkano painted nearly 3,000 individual images over the course of four years, capturing the slow and dramatic melting of the Mer de Glace glacier in the French Alps. The result is a short film of profound sensitivity and pictorial power; one that invites reflection and dialogue on the sustainability of human action and our impact on the natural world — the very physical reality we are transforming.
To offer deeper insight into the creative process behind Natura Fugit, the Museo Universidad de Navarra is currently hosting a monographic exhibition dedicated to the project. The museum played a vital role in the film’s development: within its vast photographic archives, Lazkano discovered an 1875 photograph of the Mer de Glace, a pivotal image that inspired the project.
Lazkano’s next exhibition will open in September at Basque Luxury Studio in San Sebastián. This show will present the artist’s distinctive take on nature — the fiction of a natural world rendered with hyperrealist precision on large-scale canvases. The exhibition will also include a projection of Natura Fugit, along with sketches and drawings used during the film’s production. The exhibition will remain open until the summer of 2028.
Jesus Mari Lazkano
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