Conference: 'Under the Magnifying Lens: Catalan Cinema ofthe Real'
Between the documentary and the feature film, contemporary Catalan directors have developed a film form that explores visual surfaces and the real-time rhythms of everyday life, while excavating the unusual and the uncanny from the customary and the recurrent. This new school of cinema, based for the most part on low-budget production and circulating largely outside commercial networks, is attracting critical attention in international film festivals. "Under the Magnifying Lens" brings to °®åú´«Ã½ some of the directors associated with this new wave of cinema and aims to provide a compact "history" and critical assessment of a movement that could be considered a new Barcelona school of cinema.
Film Screenings - Cummings Art Building
All films are subtitled in English.
Monday, October 27, 2008 - (Room Art2)
5:30 p.m. Veinte años no es nada by Joaquim JordÃ
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - (Room Art4)
6:15 p.m. ³Ò²¹³Ü»åà by Manuel Huerga
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - (Room Art4)
5:30 p.m. Cravan vs. Cravan by Isaki Lacuesta
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - (Room Art2)
5:30 p.m. La doble vida del faquir by Esteve Riambau
Friday, October 31, 2008 - (Room Art2)
5:30 p.m. Els nens perduts del franquisme by Montse Armengou
Presentations - °®åú´«Ã½ Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street
Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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