100 Years of Spanish Cinema - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

To coincide with the Queensland Art Gallery’s landmark exhibition from the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents a major historical survey of Spanish cinema.

100 Years of Spanish Cinema traces a fascinating path through Spain's national cinema, paralleling the country’s turbulent modern history and charting the political, social and industrial shifts that have informed Spanish cultural identity. Covering a period of just over 100 years of film production, the program includes works from pioneers of the silent era through to those working under dictatorship and in the transition to democracy, and the latest generation of filmmakers working in post-Franco Spain.

Featuring a wide variety of genres and themes, the program includes socially driven rural dramas, national allegories embedded in historical epics, masterful satires and parodies of Spanish history and society as well as popular forms of melodrama and musicals, expressions of Spanish neo-realism, and the important traditions of documentary filmmaking. Filmmakers profiled include Vicente Aranda, Alejandro Amenábar, Jaume Balagueró, Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, Luis Buñuel, Mario Camus, Segundo de Chomón, Isabel Coixet, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan José Bigas Luna, Julio Medem, Benito Perojo, Pere Portabella, Florián Rey, Carlos Saura, Albert Serra and others.

Production still from El cant dels Ocells (Bird Song) 2008 / Director: Albert Serra / Image courtesy: Capricci Films

Event Details:

Queensland Art Gallery.Stanley Place, South Bank. Queensland 4101

25 Jul to 04 Nov 2012