The aim of this project is to show a significant sample of Spanish experimental cinema since the fifties up to now. The exhibition, produced by the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) gives continuity to the objectives developed in the programme bearing the same name and held in the CCCB throughout seven seasons. This programme, together with the projection of movies in their original format, has generated an archive, open to public consultation, and a seminar to study and analyze experimental and avant-garde cinema.
The curator, Antoni Pinent –film programmer and independent contemporary art curator- establishes a dialogue between classic works and the most recent productions. To this end, the selection starts with the essential figure of José Val del Omer –whose work was mainly produced in the fifties- and goes on to reference authors of the sixties and seventies, such as Pere Portabella, Carles Santos, Iván Zulueta, José Antonio Sisitiaga or Manuel Huerga, to end up with the younger generations, with representatives such as David Domingo, Oliver Laxe or Laida Lertxundi. The aim is to show the past of experimental productions in Spain and their connection with recent creations in their search for different ways to understand cinema.
The international touring of the project includes five sessions of movies programme with forty titles by different authors and a catalogue in which a script with additional information in included: interviews with the authors, critical comments of their work and social, political and historical context of the productions.
The catalogue has been prepared by curator Antoni Pinent and Andrés Hispano, audiovisual producer, curator, painter and illustrator.