‘En la ciudad’. Filmacions urbanístiques, inquietuds artístiques
6 — 22 November 2018
- Artists
- Iván Zulueta, Benet Rossell, Eugènia Balcells, Juan Bufill, Manuel Huerga, Francesc Abad, Eulàlia Grau, Antoni Miralda, Fina Miralles, Antoni Muntadas, Joan Rabascall, Francesc Torres and Valcárcel Medina
- Curators
- Albert Alcoz
- Venues
- Museu d’Historia de Barcelona, Capilla de Santa Ágata
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En la ciudad [“In the City”] was the title of an unusual collective film that followed an initiative by Eugeni Bonet in 1976. The film project consisted of a series of Super-8 short films made by a series of different artists. Reflecting on the role of the city, expressing personal concerns and interrogating the different urban logic of places such as Barcelona, Madrid, Paris or New York was the main objective of a heterogeneous film that put together the analytical recordings of the surroundings with an artistic format that was close to cinema. Recognised experimental filmmakers –such as Iván Zulueta, Eugènia Balcells, Manuel Huerga– and renowned visual artists linked to conceptual practices –like Eulàlia Grau, Muntadas, Antoni Miralda, Fina Miralles, Francesc Torres– were some of the participants in such plural work that speaks truth to a period of hopeful socio-political change. Today the film has become a historical document.
Artists: Iván Zulueta, Benet Rossell, Eugènia Balcells, Juan Bufill, Manuel Huerga, Francesc Abad, Eulàlia Grau, Antoni Miralda, Fina Miralles, Antoni Muntadas, Joan Rabascall, Francesc Torres, Valcárcel Medina
Albert Alcoz is a filmmaker, teacher and film curator of experimental film and artists’ video. PhD in Media Arts from Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona where he teaches cinema and video. He writes about avant-garde cinema, documentary film and video art for various print media as well as his website Visionary Film created in 2006. Since 2005 he has made several works in film and videographic formats, some of which are distributed by HAMACA or included at the Xcèntric Archive. He has been part of audiovisual platforms like Angular –a publisher of DVDs of international experimental film–, Venusplutón!, Blogs&Docs, Found Footage Magazine and curated the screenings series Amalgama, Cinema Anèmic and CRANC. He has written the books Resonancias fílmicas. El sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981) (Shangrila, 2017) and Radicales libres. 50 películas esenciales del cine experimental (UOC, 2019).
Last update: July 17th, 2019
