Wednesday 11, April, 2018 19.00 h -
Wednesday 11, April, 2018
Can Framis, Barcelona
RESERVATIONS: calling 933 208 736 or email canframis@fundaciovilacasas.com
Several activities have been organised in connection with the exhibition “Pere Portabella: Cinema, Art and Politics” in order to provide a fuller picture of the filmmaker via the examination of his output from different viewpoints, giving us a multifaceted and more complete idea of the artist.
The Can Framis Museum is hosting two talks followed by conversation with Pere Portabella featuring two experts on the filmmaker’s work: Marcelo Expósito and Jordi Balló.
The second talk, given by Jordi Balló, is titled The Subtraction Method. Portabella's methodology of subtraction is based on the elimination of certain contextual aspects in order to highlight the conceptual centrality of his films. This strategy is especially noticeable in films such as Miró, l'altre (with the destruction by Miró himself of the mural painting he has just finished), in Mudanza (with the filming of the emptying out of the Lorca museum house), or even in an involuntary manner in Miró, tapís, with the later destruction of a work by Miró exhibited in the lobby of the Twin Towers in New York. The power of these absences posits a ghost-like presence, which is also the main theme of El Sopar, a film made in 1974 which has returned to life in 2018 with new resonance and added sections.
About Jordi Balló:
Balló (Figueres, 1954) is professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He was also visiting professor at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University (California) in 2008.
He was exhibition director at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) from 1998 to 2011. He has curated many exhibitions including, El segle del cinema (1995), Món TV (1999), La ciutat dels cineastes (2001), Erice/Kiarostami: correspondències (2006-2008), Hammershoi i Dreyer (2006-2007) and Pasolini Roma (2013-2015), where he explores the boundaries between the movie theatre and the art gallery.
He is the director of the Master’s in Creative Documentary at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he has nurtured many films including, La plaga by Neus Ballús, El fossar by Ricardo Íscar, El cielo gira and Mercado de futuros by Mercedes Álvarez, La leyenda del tiempo by Isaki Lacuesta, En Construcción by José Luís Guerin, and Mones com la Becky and De nens by Joaquim Jordà.
Among the many books he has published are La llavor immortal. Els arguments universals en el cinema (1995); Imatges del silenci: els motius visuals en el cinema (2000); Jo ja he estat aquí: ficcions de la repetició (2005) (awarded the Serra d’Or); and El món escenari. Shakespeare: el guionista invisible (2015), most of which were co-written with Xavier Pérez. He conceived the idea for the “Cultura/s” supplement for La Vanguardia newspaper and headed its advisory board until 2014.
In 2011 he received the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona award for audiovisuals for his work as curator of the exhibition Totes les cartes. Correspondències fílmiques. In 2005 he was awarded the Generalitat de Catalunya National Culture Prize for his work on the Master’s in Creative Documentary.
Places limited. Prior reservations required: please call 933 208 736 or email canframis@fundaciovilacasas.com. Language: Catalan.
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