Pilar Monsell, "La periferia de la imaginación", 2023
Activity
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Two Films from the Periphery
Film screening and colloquium on collective film experiences in contexts of urban struggles
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Screening of the films VeCINES by Laboratorio Reversible and A Lua Plazt by Jérémy Gravayat, two collective film experiences that explore contexts of urban struggles in Barcelona and Paris. The session, programmed by Pilar Monsell and associated with her film installation La periferia de la imaginación (The Periphery of the Imagination), part of the exhibition Unknown City Beneath the Mist: New Images from Barcelona’s Peripheries, will close with a colloquium featuring the participation of Jérémy Gravayat and members of the Laboratorio Reversible collective.
As residents living between the streets of neighbourhoods that are constantly being rebuilt, we are a community in constant transformation, existing and resisting despite the pressures of the real estate interests that stalk our cities. The periphery can sometimes be in the city centres, in the empty lots of buildings demolished in favour of property speculation, occupied by families to build a temporary space to live in, or by neighbourhood collectives that find in cinema a collective tool for the creation and transformation of certain narratives. The periphery is for us, and is the place where we create and construct other possible lives, other possible images.
The two films that make up this programme are linked to the singular modes of film production practised by two associative filmmaking spaces that work with photochemical media: one in Barcelona, Laboratorio Reversible, and the other in the Parisian banlieue of La Courneuve, L’Abominable.
Filmmaker Pilar Monsell, who has been part of these spaces of collective and mutualised film work for the past decade, programmes this small diptych as a way of expanding her piece La periferia de la imaginación, which forms part of the exhibition Unknown City Beneath the Mist: New Images from Barcelona’s Peripheries, to take its title towards a meaning that can also be understood as a way of thinking and making cinema: peripheral cinema.
Pilar Monsell is a filmmaker and lecturer on the MA in Contemporary Film Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She takes part in Unknown City Beneath the Mist: New Images from Barcelona’s Peripheries.
Laboratorio Reversible is a self-learning collective dedicated to experimenting with analogue film. Their practice is influenced by the local reality of Barcelona’s Poble-sec neighbourhood.
Jérémy Gravayat is a filmmaker, editor and programmer in associative film spaces.
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Programme
18:00 – 18:30 h
VeCINES (22 min, 2017, Spain), directed by Laboratorio Reversible. Super 8, B/W. Original version with Spanish subtitles.
18:30 – 20:15 h
A Lua Plazt (97 min, 2018, France), directed by Jérémy Gravayat. Video and 16 mm, colour. Original version with Spanish subtitles.
20:15 – 21:00 h
Colloquium with Pilar Monsell, Raúl M. Candela and Raquel Marques, members of the Laboratorio Reversible collective.
