What to do in Madrid this week: Iván Zulueta, “Pieces Of A Woman”, Tim Burtom, The Hours…
Cine Doré has a surprise in store to end the year: this Friday begins a course on the personal archive of film director Iván Zulueta, acquired by Filmoteca Española, which includes short local films, filmed in his family home in San Sebastian, at parties, with friends or during your travel. This part of his work is presented in an unprecedented way and adds to the filmography of a not so prolific director, whose career has left us with barely two feature films (One, two, three, for English hide-and-seek s rapture) and some short films. The course consists of seven thematic sessions, all presented by the curators Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen, and will end in January with two concerts by Jota de Los Planetas about some of these unpublished pieces by Zulueta.
“Visions expanded. Experimental photography
Within photography there is a stream dedicated to playing and experimenting with the process, which is called “experimental photography”. However, Julie Jones, the curator of this recently opened exhibition at CaixaForum, stresses that photography since its inception has been based on experimentation with different techniques that have developed the medium to this day. Although not organized chronologically, the exhibition contains works from the early 20th century to the present day and focuses on the formal, thematic, and technical connections of figures such as Man Ray, Dora Maar, Brassaï, Barbara Kruger, László Moholy-Nagy, Gilbert & George, Lisa Oppenheim, Olafur Eliasson or Suzanne Mozard, among many others, all come from disciplines as diverse as art, architecture, writing or science.
“Algorithms with a big personality”
Since last October you can visit the exhibition at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica Symbols and algorithms. Sensation in a calculated world, which revolves around the implications and debates surrounding algorithms, present in our lives today, questioning their biases or effectiveness, among other issues. The center organizes a workshop for families seeking to bring technology closer to the little ones and make it more understandable, in addition to inviting them to ask themselves questions such as whether machines can have personality or whether they are good or bad. At the workshop, attendees will delve into all of these concepts by designing their own algorithm.
Many of us knew Michael Cunningham’s novel thanks to the film adaptation Stephen Daldry made in 2002 into the movie hoursStarring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman. The story tells us about the lives of three women who in one way or another crossed the character of Mrs. Dalloway: Virginia Woolf herself, whom we see writing this novel, Laura Brown, who read it in the fifties, and Clarissa Vaughan. which would be a contemporary version of Mrs. Dalloway. This Saturday, Cine Yelmo, with its Alternative Content Window + Que Cine, features the world premiere of hours From the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The composition is responsible for Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts, in the direction we find Phelim McDermott and in the roles of the three heroes Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato.
“nightmare before christmas’
Only Tim Burton could turn Christmas into a dark story, and only he could turn Halloween Town’s wildest creatures into the holiday spirit. Depressive Skeleton Jack is the protagonist The nightmare before christmas and engineer an absurd plan to reinvent this festivity, and pass it through his evil filter to the townspeople. His plan includes the kidnapping of Santa Claus, a sleigh in the shape of a coffin and toys that will terrify all the boys and girls in the world. Good thing Sally, the rag doll who anticipates the coming disaster, will do everything she can to save Christmas. This classic ’90s animated movie is shown Sunday at Cineteca in a morning session for the whole family.
Underground comics writers in Spain
In 2023, the Library and Documentation Center of the Reina Sofia Museum will host an exhibition on historical Spanish comics authors such as Montse Clave, Ana Miralles, Nuria Pompeia or Mariel Soria. As a preview, the museum is organizing this program which includes a workshop and a round table. The workshop, coordinated by the illustrator Yi Gomez, consists of three sessions in which the genealogy of the secret authors will be explored, from the seventies to the present, and the concept of self-management, which is behind a large part of this type of work, will be addressed. Authors Issa Fu, Marta Guerrero, Laura Perez-Fernetti, and Marica Villa will participate in the roundtable, along with researcher and publisher Elisa McCausland.
Based on the personal experience of its author Kata Weber, pieces of a woman It explores the feelings that come from a traumatic event such as the death of a baby moments after birth. Transferred to the cinema in 2020, this work is distinguished by the complexity and strength of its female characters, especially its heroine, Maja, who deals with loss and pain so oppressive that it tears you apart, but that can also lead to new emergence. way of understanding life. The original theatrical production includes cinematic means of expression that give the scenes great realism and bring us closer to the actors’ acting in a more intimate way.
“on the life of animals
in Elizabeth CostelloJM Coetzee draws the character of an Australian writer who lectures around the world on literature and animal rights. This character has come to speak to us about this last matter, jumping from the novel to the center of Madrid, in a play written by Lola Blasco, directed by Pepa Gamboa and starring Natalie Cecina. The author declares that she is fascinated by the character of Coetzee, who also works in this production as the Nobel Prize’s alter ego, who wrote prolifically about the relationship between humans and other animals and was a staunch advocate for the rights of the latter.