Benet Rossell

Cérémonials. Film documental sobre festes i rituals realitzats per Miralda, Joan Rabascall, Dorothée Selz i Jaume Xifra, 1974

Cérémonials. Documentary Film about Festivities and Rituals by Miralda, Joan Rabascall, Dorothée Selz and Jaume Xifra, 1974

Audiovisual recording

Between 1969 and 1973, Catalan artists based in Paris held a series of celebrations and collective happenings known as Ceremonials. Miralda, Joan Rabascall, Jaume Xifra, Benet Rossell and Dorothée Selz organised collective artistic actions with a significant involvement of the public in various places in France and Germany. With a powerful visual force – the chromatic element was fundamental – and coloured food, music, itineraries and ritualised movements, these ‘ceremonials’ were seen as a metaphor for the need for social change that existed at that time.

Technical details

Original title:: Cérémonials. Film documental sobre festes i rituals realitzats per Miralda, Joan Rabascall, Dorothée Selz i Jaume Xifra
Registration number:: 2934
Artist:: Rossell, Benet
Date created:: 1974
Date acquired:: 1999
Fonds:: MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
Object type:: Audiovisual recording
Media:: 16 mm film transferred into video, colour, sound, 19 min 18 s
Credits:: MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
Copyright:: © Benet Rossell
It has accessibility resources:: No

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