Public screening: "Cine de Transición"

At this month's public screening on July 24 will be showing and discussing films in connection with Sabine Schöbel's project "Cine de Transición – The period of political and social transition from dictatorship to democracy (1965-1985) in Spain in the mirror of the film collection of Arsenal". "The focus of my project are the Spanish films, which were shown in the years after the death of Franco in the Forum. It is a collection of films, where, after decades, the "other Spain" becomes visible again, which ended with the end of the civil war in the underground or into exile. At best the „other Spain“ became present to an audience as a film in Catalan’s "cine clandestino" since the late 60’s of the last century. The selected works are at first documents of a social change and visualization of this change by the International Forum of New Cinema. Under these circumstances and with the desire to create a film tour for the local cinemas, I approached the archive. The review of the copies, stored there for decades, brought out soon another aspect: “La otra España“ presented itself as a kind of "Rotfilm". The crowd scenes of the civil war, the strikes of the theater workers in Barcelona in 1977, the prison yard of the political prisoners in the Basque country, the white mask in the forbidden play LA TORNA and the bedroom of the magician in A UN DIOS DESCONOCIDO, it all seemed to be coloured. Film, film history, history: red. Other works have rarely or too much contrast or are rainy. In some cases you want to know if it has always been like this. Characteristic of a "poor cinema"? Or are these also "signs of the times"?" (Sabine Schöbel)