The Cineclube de Compostela is an organisation we usually develop this section programme with, where we showcase the heritage of diverse cinematographies and ethnographic cinema references. This year, apart from Cineclube’s support, we also have the support of the Performing, Musical and Audiovisual Arts section of the Consello da Cultura Galega (Galician Culture Council.)
The result is a programme consisting of a day of debate and training coordinated by the producer Beli Martínez and the cultural programmer and cinema historian José Manuel Sande. There will be three screening sessions focused on the Spanish Transition to democracy and the Galician cinema, as part of this 19th MICE thematic line.
SESSION-TABLES
THURSDAY, MARCH 21. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (ALA SUR)
Registration is free of charge and can be done through this link.
11 A.M. – PRESENTATION
11.15 A.M. – SEssion-table: Amateur and militant cinema of the Transtion
Participants: Cabanas Cao, Antón Caeiro, and Xan Gómez Viñas. Moderated by: Ana Domínguez.
12.30 P.M. – Session-table: From amateur to professional
Participants: Manolo Abad, Manolo Gonzalez, and Milagros Bará. Moderated by: Marcos Gallego.
4.30 P.M. – SESSION-TABLE 3: Representation of the Transition in contemporary cinema
Participants: Eloy Enciso, José Manuel Sande, Coral Piñeiro. Moderated by: Beli Martínez.
SCREENING SESSIONS
SESSION 1: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, AT 10 P.M. TEATRO PRINCIPAL
Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal the day of the projection from an hour before.
CONXO, UNHA EXPERIENCIA
Manuel Abad
Galicia – Spain, 1977
12 min. OV
Filming of a happening of the group A Carón that took place in the psychiatric hospital of Conxo, in Santiago de Compostela. It entailed a reflection on artistic creation, mental illness, and society, as well as a denunciation of the terrible conditions the inmates lived in. Some of them, thanks to a modest disengagement of medical science, were able to participate in the event.
CCCV
Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro
Galicia – Spain, 2005
67 min. OV
Carlos Varela traveled throughout Galicia with his film camera to chronicle the Galician national-popular movement, but he also left an exemplary trail in the field of photography, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, murals and working with tapestries; He founded and directed ‘Nós Cinematografía Galega’ in 1975 and designed the anagram of this society which, in its founding statutes, defended the “incorporation into Galician culture of the cinematographic phenomenon in all its manifestations.”
SESSION 2: THURSDAY, MARCH 21, AT 6 P.M. NUMAX
Tickets: NUMAX´s ticket office or website.
A LEI DA TERRA
Colectivo Grupo Zero
Portugal, 1977
67 min. OVSGAL
The process of agrarian reform in the Alentejo is seen through an analysis of social structures and class struggles, culminating in the occupation of land by peasants and the attempt to create new labor and property relations. Faced with the economic sabotage of the bosses and former owners, workers organize themselves in unions, demand employment and fair wages and seek to establish a revolutionary law: “The land for those who work it!”.
SHORT FILMS BY MANOEL DA COSTA:
TEMPOS (DE) GRISES / HOMENAXE A DOLORES / VIGOSHIMA MON AMOUR
Manoel da Costa
Galicia – Spain, 1975-1985
30 min. OV
These films deal with political subjects by filming social and popular conflicts during the Spanish Transition. Demonstrations, police repression and tributes to communist politicians exiled during the dictatorship come together in this series of short films made by amateur filmmaker Manoel Dacosta with an S8 camera.
SESSION 3: FRIDAY, MARCH 22, AT 8 P.M. SALÓN TEATRO
Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal the day of the projection from an hour before.
This third session will include a presentation and a discussion after the screening with Alejandro Alvarado, filmmaker, teacher, researcher, and author of ‘La postcensura en el cine documental de la transición española’ (Post-censorship in documentary cinema of the Spanish transition) (2018). With him, we will investigate the cinema context of that historical period and the censorship processes in films such as Rocío.
ALEJANDRO ALVARADO (Málaga, 1975). Filmmaker, teacher, and researcher. As a professional, he worked in cultural and informational television, as director-producer of the program ‘Tesis’ (2001-11) on Andalusian Channel 2. He created a creative tandem with Concha Barquero. He wrote and directed several films with her, and the most outstanding is Pepe el andaluz (2012). Since 2010 he has been a lecturer in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Universidad de Málaga, where he teaches Documentary Production and coordinates the Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Creation and Performing Arts. Since 2014 he is a member of the selection committee of the short films section at Málaga’s Film Festival.
The films that will be screened and discussed afterwards will be:
ROCÍO
Fernando Ruiz Vergara
Spain, 1980
69 min. OVSGAL/SpX
Censored documentary Rocío addresses the economic, class and power struggles that underlie Rocío devotion, alienating an entire region. Historical document that briefly but concisely exposes the penetration and evolution of Catholicism in Spain during the coup d’état and Franco’s regime, the reason and logic of the Marian faith, as well as the appearance of images of virgins throughout the country to focus on the Virgen del Rocío.
ANDALUCÍA 28 F
Nonio Parejo
Spain, 1981
15 min. OV
A short documentary film about the celebration of the Autonomy Referendum, which Andalusians voted for on February 28, 1980.