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Cronica
D'una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco's Spain, 1960
– 1975
Co-presented
by the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cinema Studies
Program at the University of Pennsylvania
 This
six-part documentary series focuses on a generation of independent
filmmakers whose innate unwillingness to conform required them
to produce, distribute and exhibit radical films during Francisco
Franco’s regime. Shooting under the pretense of amateur filmmaking,
they hid within crowds of protesters, producing works that were
often highly creative and even experimental. In order to protect
the identities of its participants, many of these films had
no credits.
While
this body of work represents a margin of Spanish film history,
it nevertheless contains some of the most crucial, first-hand
documents of the end of the dictatorship, revealing problems
of housing and social services, immigration, the fate of political
prisoners and restrictions on expression and free speech. These
films explore an era that fought for freedom through cinema.
Curated
by Marta Sanchez and Manuel Barrios. Special thanks to Bryan
Cameron and Anna Cox of the Department of Hispanic Studies at
the University Of Pennsylvania and Charlotte Nitta Cargni.
And to Michael Solomon and Toni Esposito of the Department of
Romance Languages at Penn, for their extraordinary efforts in
subtitling the short films contained in the Cronica series.
Wednesday,
February 24 at 7pm
Part
V: New Wind
dir.
Manuel Barrios, Spain, 2004, DVD, 44 mins, color and b/w, Spanish
and/or Catalan w/ English subtitles
After
the events of May, 1968 and the terrorist attack against Carrero
Blanco, the political, social and even psychological situation
in Spain changed dramatically. This was reflected in the independent
cinema of that time. But it wasn’t until directors like Antoni
Padros, a filmmaker of unclassifiable aesthetics and extreme
creativity, or Jose Maria Nunes, a Portuguese filmmaker working
in Barcelona, that new styles and techniques emerged and a sense
of relative freedom arose, if only formally.
followed
by
Sexperiencias
dir.
Jose Maria Nunes, Spain, 1969, video, 92 mins, b/w,
Spanish
and/or Catalan w/ English subtitles
 Sexperiencias
deals with the reactions
of an elderly man and a young girl at the news that appeared
in the press in 1968, an intercession that weaves political
struggle and the anguish of love. Formally risky, Nunes’ work
was shot without dialogue, resulting in haunting vocal synchronicities
in the dubbing, mixed with perfectly synchronized sound.
Dafne
i Chloe
dir.
Antoni Padros, Spain, 1969, video, 23 mins, b/w,
Spanish and/or Catalan w/ English subtitles
A
pair of girls plays a game. When it reaches its conclusion,
the game has and says things that have the possibility of anarchy.
Free admission members
above Internationalist level; $5 Internationalists;
$6 students + seniors; $8 general admission.
In advance at TICKETWEB
or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater Box Office.
Click
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