FONS AUDIO #6
Pere Portabella
Pere Portabella’s oeuvre lies on the confines between filmmaking, arts practice and political commitment. His films have been and continue to be subversive in as much as they explore the poetic and political possibilities of a language – film language – that usually obeys the laws of a psychologist narrativity that is a legacy of Aristotelian thought. In the filmmaker’s own words: “Film is the young art form that has most quickly aged.”
Francesc Abad
Francesc Abad takes us on a tour spanning the last four decades of Spanish and Catalan art, through an analysis of his works in the MACBA Collection.
Maite Muñoz
Maite Muñoz, Head of MACBA Archive, talks about how the material in the Archive is organised, strategies for dissemination, and how it all contributes to redefining the boundaries between art and document.
Carles Guerra and Daria Esteva talk about the films by Aleksandr Sokurov and Jacinto Esteva.
Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny. Part I
A monographic on the work and historical context of Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, featuring interviews with Carles Santos and Oriol Pérez.
Benet Rossell
Benet Rossell is difficult to classify, because he constantly invents new approaches. He uses multiple forms and distorts formats in order to infuse them with new potential: drawing becomes text, writing triggers action, film becomes poetic musings around time.
Deimantas Narkevičius
Narkevičius explores the perception of history and the mechanisms that transform it through utopias or ideologies. He focuses on the personal and individual, often structuring his work around forgotten or repressed testimonies and stories.
Carles Santos. Part II
A musical selection of Carles Santos' works from 1978 until 2008.
Carles Santos. Part I
A monographic on the work and historical context of Carles Santos, featuring an interview with Pere Portabella.