The camera moves through the streets of Valencia on 9 October 1977. Protests, posters and graffiti, hundreds of political paintings that claim, in Catalan, a status for the “land of Valencia” the day of celebration today known as the Day of the Valencian Community. The operator -Lluis Rivera, a veteran and well-known independent filmmaker – filmed walls works, facades of houses, low commercial, from left to right: is raising record of all the heat politically. So what makes up the second end: the last plane sequence, after displaying the nth-to-wall work in the that have been captured, slogans, protest ends with a couple getting cuddles in the middle of the sidewalk, without being aware of that from the other side of the road a camera I spy.
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it Is Spain desperezándose. Spain’s newly-born democracy, which begins to enjoy the political freedoms and social. A country which is fighting. At first with fear, later with some joy. Enjoy your time of beach days, days holiday, splashing around piscineros and tortillas potatoes, on beaches, in which children recreate The war of the galaxies with sheets and costumes home. Is also a Spain that is suffering, that buries, for example, lawyers killed, and that is a tribute to shot during the Civil War. All this raises act Remains in Super-8: a chronicle of ‘amateur’ of the years of the change, an initiative of the Spanish Film library, produced in collaboration with the Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe, Filmoteca de Andalucía, Filmoteca de Castilla y León, Film – Institut Valencià de Cultura, and Filmoteca of Navarra, and is part of the celebrations of the 40 years of the Constitution. The session lasts one hour, is made up of a dozen recordings (mostly without sound) in a Super-8 arranged chronologically, and starts with a day of Kings in the a child to open, as eager as their parents, the gifts appeared in his living room, to jump to the concert of José Luis Labordeta in Zaragoza on the 21st of February 1976. The last recording returned to the public in Valencia, June 24, 1979, at a demonstration in favour of sexual liberation.
The years of change
The Filmoteca Española has celebrated this 2018 with a cycle, The years of change, with the that runs through the cinema of the Transition. Among his titles include:
the spirit of the beehive (1973), Víctor Erice.
Sleep, sleep my love (1975), Francisco Regueiro.
Litter black (1977), of Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.
Body to body (1984), Paulino Viota.
Curated by Elena Oroz and Xose Prieto Souto, researchers and professors of the University Carlos III of Madrid, the session is projected from tomorrow and throughout this week in the film libraries that have collaborated with materials —in Madrid, a round table tomorrow with Santos Zunzunegui, Pere Portabella, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Carmen Arocena presents the projection of the Wednesday— and hides several secrets: the only reference to the Constitution does not extend Wsbets to their titles of credit the end and there are no pictures within in Madrid. “It has been a complex project,” says Oroz. “Each cineteca has supplied its funds differently, and that’s why, in addition to chronic, which sounds kind of solemn, is a point, a beginning of collaboration between film libraries which can give rise to more sessions,” says Prieto Souto.
expand photo Burial in Salamanca, the labor lawyer Serafín Holgado, murdered in the crime of the calle Atocha in Madrid.
The materials home, they are deposited by their owners in the conservation centers, which does not mean that you can freely use: has been to ask permissions of their owners. “It has been a big effort of coordination and an exciting task. Would not know how to count the hours of viewing, but since we received the assignment three months ago we have slept very little,” he confesses between laughs the researcher. “From the point of view of historiography, we have dominated the look from the bottom up, decentralized approach and microhistórico,” says Prieto. “The session can also be enjoyed from an aesthetic point of view, to observe the way of filming. And as a reflection of things that today we miss: for example, the streets full of ballots policies, as if it were spam physical” stresses Oroz.
In search of the hidden image
“The material is selfless, that does not mean that these authors do not have political affinity or even very militant, like the movies galician, filmed by Carlos Varela,” says Elena Oroz, one of the two curators of the session. “They congregate in the same large images, gestures, historical moments, with the daily issues of life.” That value is added to the fact that as private records have been “on the sidelines of the imaginary audiovisual of this period”.
Only some artists, such as Cecilia Bartolomé, Isaki Lacuesta in The matança del porc (2012), the filmmaker Ramiro Ledo with the material of Carlos Varela, the collective Film Class or Victoria Prego in his famous series on the Transition, have worked with similar materials to build their own work. Oroz says: “The Super-8 can be used to retrieve moments have been censored in other formats. The best example is the concert of Labordeta, Alberto Sanchez Millan filmed by order of TVE”. For safety, I used two cameras: a 16mm and the other 8mm The concert ended with a police crackdown, the civil governor of Zaragoza banned a second recital and TVE censored the material… the 16-mm Sánchez Millán hid and saved the 8 mm
The meeting serves to show the shortcomings of that era, such as the machismo. “We have not found records of the feminist movement,” says Oroz, “and that that the we have searched. I don’t want to say that they do not exist, but rather that there is in the film libraries”. Two details stand out from the eyes of the TWENTY-first century. One is the innocence with which the spaniards behave in front of the camera, because I shoot loved ones well because he was not yet born the actual consciousness of the power of the image. The other is born of comparing the images of the manifestations of these three years: if at the beginning the people appear tense, compact; later note more ease, joy, even a certain playful spirit. Spain wakes up after 40 years of nightmare dictatorial.
