Catalan Documentary Film Series and Conference
Film Screenings: October 27 - October 31
Conference: November 1
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.
Film Screenings - Cummings Art Building
All films are subtitled in English
Monday, October 27, 2008 - (Room Art2)
5:30 PM - Jordi Ballo presents a film by Joaquim Jorda Vint anys no es res
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - (Room Art4)
6:15 PM - Manuel Huerga presents his film Gaudi
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - (Room Art4)
5:30 PM - Todd Mack presents a film by Isaki Lacuesta Cravan vs. Cravan
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - (Room Art2)
5:30 PM - Esteve Riambau presents his film La doble vida del faquir
Friday, October 31, 2008 - (Room Art2)
5:30 PM - Montse Armengou presents her documentary Els nens perduts del franquisme
CONFERENCE
Saturday, November 1
Humanities Center, Board Room
Session I - 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
"Searching for the Absent Voice: Wandering through Silence in the Films of Lacuesta and Guerin," Linda C. Ehrlich
"Breaking the Imaginary Order: New Writing from Barcelona," Angel Quintana
"Writing Cinema in the Present Tense," Isaki Lacuesta
Session II - 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
"Far from Realism: A Certain Tendency of Catalan Cinema," Esteve Riambau
"A Model of Transmission," Jordi Ballo
Round Table - 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Moderator: Joan Ramon Resina
Film Screening - 5:15 PM
En construccion by Jose Luis Guerin