September at the Filmoteca de Catalunya
Message from the Filmoteca de Catalunya: ·································· ······· September 2024 at the Filmoteca Delphine Seyrig: actress, filmmaker and activist Exhibition “Precursors: feminisms, camera in hand and archive on the shoulder” Alfred Hitchcock sound Agnès Varda essential Centenary of amateur cinema in Catalonia The Film library with Mercè These are some of the cycles and outstanding sessions of the program: Delphine Seyrig: actress, filmmaker and activist. One of the members of Les Insoumuses, the French feminist collective of the 1970s and 1980s, is the protagonist of the month of September with its own series: actress and feminist activist Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990). The retrospective includes her triple aspect of performer, director and activist, from her debut in L’année dernière a Marienbad (1961) by Alain Resnais and her consolidation as an iconic face of auteur cinema, which also paid filmmakers like Losey, Truffaut or Buñuel. In works after May 1968, she reframes her ideas as a woman and as an actress, and focuses on projects focused from the female point of view directed by Marguerite Duras, Ulrike Ottinger or Chantal Akerman, breaking with the idealized image and stereotypical that dragged. The cycle is completed with the vindictive work of Les Insoumuses, signed by Carole Roussopoulos, Ioana Wieder and Seyrig herself, with an innovative use of video as a tool of protest and social awareness, and becomes an essential complement to the exhibition ” Precursors: feminisms, camera in hand and archive on the shoulder”, which will be open until November 17 and presents other parallel activities, such as the talk “Building a feminist film archive”, by the activists of the Center of Documentation of Ca la Dona and the Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival team, or a guided visit with Imma Merino, journalist and film critic, adviser to the exhibition “Agnès Varda. Photograph, film, recycle.” of the CCCB, until December 8, 2024), which will then present Agnès Varda’s film L’une chante, l’autre pas (1977), which is one of the last dates of the retrospective dedicated to the essential filmmaker Agnès Varda. Alfred Hitchcock sound. The complete review of the sound filmography of the master of suspense continues, which has taken up much of the programming this summer. The cycle has followed the chronological order, and until September 15 will allow you to see on the big screen some of the director’s most emblematic and popular titles of the 1960s: Con la muerte en los talones, Psicosis, Els ocells, Vertigo or Marnie , until completing it with his last film, Family Plot (1976). The programming linked to the Centenary of Amateur Cinema in Catalonia has two programs integrated into the cycle that explores the use of domestic images in cinematographic works, The Underground Archive. Found footage, with films such as Spell Reel (2027), by Portuguese artist Filipa César, which reflects on the political history of West Africa and the role of moving images in the creation and legacy of that history, or Silverlake Life: The View from Here, which chronicles the last months of filmmaker Tom Joslin’s daily life with his partner after they were both diagnosed with AIDS in 1989. After Joslin’s death, a friend of the couple, Peter Friedman creates a film diary from the VHS tapes that Joslin had recorded, with love, humor and tenderness. The Film Library with the Festes de la Mercè. And amateur cinema will still have a very special session linked to Barcelona’s main festival. Cinema-concert al fresco in Plaza Salvador Seguí, in front of the Filmoteca, with a selection of amateur pieces from 1928 to 1935 to a jazz rhythm. The following will be shown: A roof (Llorenç Llobet-Gràcia, 1928); Elections (Josep Arola, 1932). Fragment of Reports and collections from the 1930s; Baix Llobregat (Amadeu Real Vallès, 1935); Flight of the Seagull (Manuel Amat Rosés, 1934); Rain (Rossend Torras, 1930) and La posada del terror (Adolfo Gaisser Foix, 1935). With live musical accompaniment by the Cruscat Ramblers group. Free session Sunday 22 September at 9.30pm. And this year’s Mercè has Casablanca as its guest city. The Filmoteca joins in with the free screening on Tuesday, September 24 at 8 p.m. in Sala Chomón of the film Haut et fort (2021), a celebration of youth culture, music and art as powerful tools for social change which was selected in the official section of the Cannes Film Festival. Spectator 1,500,000. Last February, the Filmoteca welcomed one and a half million viewers since the Raval headquarters were inaugurated in February 2012. It was Arnau Rodríguez Garcia, a student at Pompeu Fabra University who attended the Aula de Cinema cycle , and among the rewards for this honor was the ability to program any film he wanted. The chosen one is the classic European musical Les demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1966), which he himself will present on Friday 20, and which will have as an ideal complement Agnès Varda’s documentary about the film, Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans , which will close the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker on Friday 27th. Sarah Maldoror. The Tàpies Museum programs the seminar “Sarah Maldoror. An alternative identity”, which claims this pioneer of African cinema and the wonderful legacy she has left us around blackness. An essential work when dealing with the decolonial movement and the struggles for social diversity. The Filmoteca hosts two related sessions, the first of which will be attended by the filmmaker’s daughter, Annouchka de Andrade, to delve deeper into the visual poetics of this creator who bet on a future society born of anti-colonialism and pan-Africanism. And also… Permanent history of Catalan cinema presents the film by José María Nunes Biotaxia (1967), performed by Núria Espert, Pablo Busoms and Joaquim Jordà, digitized thanks to the exhibition Visibilitzem el cinema Catalan. FilmoXarxa, the program that brings the Filmoteca throughout the territory thanks to the collaboration of the Federation of Cineclubs, launches a new catalog for the period 2024-2026, which will also be presented at the Raval headquarters. The first title is You Resemble Me (Dina Amer, 2021), a story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris in which cultural and intergenerational trauma erupts. We resume the transversal cycle that this 2024 recovers the work of the Swedish master Victor Sjöström, with The Girl from the Lake Farm (1917), the first of his adaptations of the work of the writer Selma Lagerlöf, and one of the incursions of the filmmaker as an actor, Ordet (1943), the first film version of Kaj Munk’s play that Dreyer would later make famous. The writer, translator, critic and screenwriter Rubén Lardín presents his latest book, Las ocasions, in a conversation with the playwright, actor and filmmaker Iván Morales. The session will culminate with the screening of L’Atalante by Jean Vigo. Two tribute sessions to the architect and visual artist Albert García-Alzórriz (1992 – 2023) and his cinematic legacy: films that are a symphony of visual and sound elements that, combined with a keen sense of narrative , offer an immersive and transformative experience. We celebrate World Freedom of Expression Day with a screening of Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy, 2015), an Oscar-winning film based on the true story of the Boston Globe team of journalists who in 2002 to uncover the decades-long child abuse scandals by chaplains in the state of Massachusetts, research that was rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize. The multidisciplinary project Blind Cinema proposes the need for a visual interruption, a certain blindness, in the face of overexposure to images. Four sessions of “blind” film screenings corresponding to the four colors in which the project is divided: white, black, red and blue. The Filmoteca hosts the white and red sessions, with pieces by Pere Portabella and Carles Santos or Godard, while Xcèntric will present the blue and Zumzeig, the black. Presentation of the program of Transhumant Festival 2024, a film and photography contest committed to the social transformation that cinema brings to villages and vulnerable groups. The session includes a performance by singer-songwriter Rebeca Soul, animated for deaf people by a Catalan Sign Language interpreter from the Encantados Association. The second edition of Cinema and Geography will screen the documentary by Kleber Mendonça Filho Retratos fantasmes, a nostalgic look at Recife and, above all, at the great cinemas of the Brazilian city of his childhood and youth, a look that dazzled the cinephiles of Cannes on 2023. IndiFest, the Indigenous Film Festival of Barcelona, opens its 17th edition with the screening of Tiempo de lluvia, by Itandehui Jansen, a Mixtec work that shows a history of migration and the relationship between the city and the community. Tribute session to Paul Auster, a key reference in contemporary literature who recently passed away, with the screening of Smoke, his debut as a screenwriter, an ode to the New York district of Brooklyn. Last sessions of FilmoXica’s summer themed cycle, “Let’s go on a trip”, with Chihiro’s Journey, Super 8, The General’s Machinist or Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. ··········································································· · You can download the pdf of the program plus the September agenda by following the following link: Program + September agenda at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (pdf) This article in the Cultural Agenda was updated on July 26, 2024. In anticipation of possible last-minute modifications, we recommend that you check the information with that published on the website of the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
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