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Clandestí: Invisible Catalan Cinema Under Franco, Istanbul Modern, TurkeyJun 24–Jun 27
Clandestí: Invisible Catalan Cinema Under Franco
focuses on a generation of independent filmmakers whose innate unwillingness to conform forced them to produce, distribute, and exhibit radical films in Catalonia, with the furtive hope of sending them into the rest of Franco’s Spain. Shooting under the pretense of amateur filmmaking, they hid within crowds of protesters, producing works that were often highly creative and even experimental. They used short ends—bits of unexposed footage left over from shoots—made available to them by sympathetic professionals and distributed their films in recreation centers, private homes, cinema clubs, universities, social and cultural associations, and even parochial schools.
Being clandestine required these artists to develop aliases, which has led to some difficulties for historical investigation and film preservation. Many of these films have no credits, in order to protect the identities of its participants. 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 filmmakers, members of a generation born after the Civil War, also chronicled the ongoing psychological, social, economic, and cultural effects of the conflict. Forced to choose between exile and intellectual annihilation, they instead expressed themselves, putting their art in the service of a political movement that altered the course of Spanish history.
Panel Discussion: With the participation of filmmakers Mariano Lisa, co-director of Field for Men, and Manuel Barrios, director of the multiwarded documentary Crònica d’una mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco’s Spain, 1960-1975. Presented by Marta Sanchez (curator).
Most of these films will be shown in digital formats, due to the difficulties of preserving them on their original formats.
Where
Istanbul Modern
Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi 4 Istanbul
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Admission
$10
Schedule
PROGRAM I
Thursday June 24:
1:00 p.m. Happy Parallel
1:45 p.m. Far from the Trees
3:30 p.m. Field for Men
Q&A with director Mariano Lisa after the screening
4:30 p.m. El Sopar
5:30 p.m. Discussion: Invisible Cinema Under Franco
With filmmakers Manuel Barrios and Mariano Lisa, and independent curator Marta Sánchez.
PROGRAM II
Friday June 25:
1:00 p.m. …and then none will laugh
1:30 p.m. Sexperiencias
3:15 p.m. 52 Sundays
4:00 p.m. Long Journey to Rage
4:30 p.m. Lock Out
PROGRAM III
Saturday June 26:
1:00 p.m. Lock Out
3:30 p.m. Protest February 1/8 1976
3:45 p.m. Mountain
4:00 p.m. El Sopar
PROGRAM IV
Sunday June 27:
1:00 p.m. …and then none will laugh
1:30 p.m. Sexperiencias
3:30 p.m. Happy Parallel
4:15 p.m. Far from the Trees