cineclub

Throughout 2025, we will be presenting a carefully curated selection of films on a monthly basis. Each session will include the screening and a vegetarian dinner prepared by a guest artist, inspired by the work screened.

In the April session we will see Una historia nunca contada desde abajo by Regina de Miguel and in the kitchen we will be joined by Joana Capella.

program
 

Wednesday, April 30

19:30h

Una historia nunca contada desde abajo by Regina de Miguel
2017 | 70min

A story never told from below, takes as its starting point one of the most unusual and radical cases in the history of recent communication technologies: the Cybersyn or Synco project. This project, led by the cybernetic visionary Stafford Beer, took place in Chile between 1971 and 1973 during the government of President Salvador Allende, but was frustrated due to the coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. From the story of this Freedom Machine, which proposed to “deliver the tools of science to the people”, and other paradigmatic scenarios linked to the notion of disappearance and buried knowledge, a filmic narrative is proposed, divided into acts, between historical documentary, science/political fiction and psychological portrait.

Utopias, even the most revolutionary, always evidence the systematic failures of the moment in which they were formulated; this audiovisual essay is situated at this crossroads, trying to think what lies behind the positivist and generalized uses of technologies, showing the conditions that in this case propitiated them and later annulled them. As a timeless narrative machine, it situates us in the dissolution of the distance between humanity and technology, entering into the fissures that this produces.

21:30h

Winter dinner by Yazel Parra Nahmens.

bio

Regina de Miguel is interdisciplinary artistic practice is characterized by the research and development of processes oriented to the production of knowledge and hybrid objects. The critical analysis of the supposed objectivity of the representation devices of science, as well as of the conditions of production of scientific knowledge is one of the main discursive threads of her work. From a methodical approach, she establishes complex networks of connections that are also nourished by the philosophy of science, ecofeminism, speculative fiction and terror, to give rise to theoretical, existential and poetic displacements that operate from fragility as a form of resistance.

Joana Capella has carried out projects in various institutions such as Idensitat, Centro Huarte (Navarra, Spain), Sala d'Art Jove (Barcelona, Spain), La Panera (Lleida, Spain), La Escocesa (Barcelona, Spain), Casa Tres Patios (Medellín, Colombia). She has also developed commission projects on the periphery of the institution, such as Fer foc Aprop curated with Roc Domingo Puig. At the same time, and as a response to the context of the precariousness of art, she maintains an economic activity as a survival mechanism, which runs through the whole of his artistic practice.

Activity coordinated by Catarina Botelho, Carlos Vásquez, Marla Jacarilla, Valentina Alvarado Matos and Elena Maravillas. 

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