MATINEES: EXPANDED CINEMA FOR FAMILIES

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Picture: Maru Serrano.

The Museo CA2M is delighted to launch a unique space: morning film shows for families. The aim of the activity is to create an environment in which viewers can enjoy a great film programme in great company. Everyone is welcome: grandparents, neighbours, little brothers and sisters... We want to create an open, flexible space in which cinema expands to encompass experiences that will often leap off the screen, enabling the active participation of the audience, regardless of age. Over four Saturday sessions on 15, 22 and 29 March and 5 April, we’ll engage with cinema in its purest form, from light and movement to participatory proposals that challenge the limits of creativity.

 

Artists, filmmakers and programmers join us to design a different session on each occasion, although all sessions will adopt the same format: screenings of short films and audiovisuals alternated with interactive proposals. 

PROGRAMME

Saturday 15 March, 11:30 | PLAYING IMAGES, DREAMING GARDENS: CINEMA WITH ALL FIVE SENSES | ROCÍO MONTAÑO

Saturday 22 March, 11:00 and 12:30 | THREE TIMES OLDER: GROWING AS A FAMILY THROUGH CINEMA | MASSA SALVATGE

Saturday 29 March, 11:30 | LITTLE ORPHANS | SERRUCHO

Saturday 5 April, 11:30 |GASPARCOLOR | JUAN SOTO AND QUIARA MARAÑÓN

NOTE: Participants may enter and exit the room during the sessions.

 

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Picture: Jugar imágenes. Rocío Montaño.

PLAYING IMAGES, DREAMING GARDENS: CINEMA WITH ALL FIVE SENSES

SATURDAY 15 March. 11:30. Rocío Montaño.

Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free admission on a first come, first served basis

Have you ever entered a garden of images? In these wonderful places, you don't only watch and listen to films: you can touch them, shape them, smell them and even taste them. We invite you to explore one of these gardens where you’ll find all kinds of textures, materials and experiences to play, feel and create with. These places need lots of hands and  watchful eyes so that together we can explore every nook and cranny and transform them however we want. Come in and help us to expand the garden!

 

The session will combine screenings of short films about childhood, gardens, nature and the relationship between different living beings with elements that will leap off the screen and into the room in the form of creative proposals.

Rocío Montaño was born in Madrid and is a primary school teacher and filmmaker. Her practice alternates between video journalling and home movie-making. Her films have been shown at festivals like Cinespaña, Documenta Madrid and Punto de Vista, and in 2023 Íntima Fest dedicated a retrospective to her work at La Casa Encendida. Rocío has given cinema workshops at education centres like Escuela SUR and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, as well as primary and secondary schools.

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Picture: Massa Salvatge.

THREE TIMES OLDER: GROWING AS A FAMILY THROUGH CINEMA

22 MARCH. Massa Salvatge

First session: 11:00; second session: 12:30 // Approximate duration of each session: 1 hour

Participants are required to fill in a registration form, which will be available from 10:00 on 7 March.

The starting point of the activity is the Latvian short film “Ten Minutes Older”, by Herz Frank (1978), a poetic portrait about the fleeting nature of time and the intensity of experiencing everything for the first time during childhood. We propose a performative game route for growing as a family as we experience and watch three movie scenes that revolve around childhood in three different decades. Using our body, we’ll create a new film as we move through different spaces inside and outside the Museo CA2M, linking our actions through play and our gaze. 

PS (practical info)

Bring your favourite cushions and sheets so you can engage in the session as if you were at home.

**We can’t guarantee that you won't gain a wrinkle or that a tooth won’t fall out during this session. 

***No age restrictions, however old or however young. 

Massa Salvatge is a Valencia-based cooperative made up of Teresa Mata and Alba Oller who imagine, develop and promote spaces for learning and cultural action that address critical imaginaries about contemporary social problems. They adopt an anti-adult view of education, art and culture, placing the emphasis on children’s rights and needs. Enriched by the members’ different backgrounds and knowledge, the collective uses core artistic, cultural mediation and education tools and strategies to create hybrid practices that blend participatory action, cultural management and training.

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Picture: Serrucho.

LITTLE ORPHANS

25 MARCH 11:30. Serrucho.

Approximate duration: 45 min // Free admission on a first come, first served basis

The projectors are salvaged from a secondary school that was going to throw them away, the wood elements are leftovers from a stage set, and the fabrics of the screens were going to be wedding dresses.
We found some images on the street, and we also picked up a lot from the floor of the internet (no one watched them, 0 views). Then we put some wheels on all of these little orphans to be able to push them through theatres. Now we’re going to present them to you. 

During the session we’ll watch an audiovisual that Serrucho has created especially for the occasion, alternating viewing with performance.

Founded in 2019, Serrucho is a theatre company that works with objects and people. Its latest play MirrorStream (WT) explores the boundary between theatre and cinema, using and resignifying in real time images obtained from multiple sources on the internet. Already presented at the Stage Laboratory of CCCB, it will receive its formal premiere in the autumn.

The company’s earlier plays Objeto Tiempo and Archivo have featured at a number of festivals and venues, including the Madrid Autumn Festival, TNT Festival in Terrassa, La Mutant in Valencia, the Teatre Principal in Olot, FITT Festival in Tarragona, BAD in Bilbao, Escena Abierta in Burgos, and MeetYou in Valladolid.

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Picture: Gasparcolor: Muratti greift ein (GER 1934, Oskar Fischinger). Credit: Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv. Photographs of the Gasparcolor nitrate print by Olivia Kristina Stutz, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.

GASPARCOLOR

5 ABRIL 11:30. Juan Soto y Quiara Marañón.

 

Approximate duration: 1 hour and 30 mins // Free admission on a first come, first served basis

Nature is full of colours: the human eye can distinguish as many as 10 million and cinema eventually succeeded in capturing a limited but vivid spectrum. And yet, it’s almost impossible to explain a colour in words. Which is why we invite you to play a game with us: 
 

1. Watch images projected on a screen. 

2. Respond to them with pencils, crayons, watercolours and felt-tip pens. 

3. Arrange them into a surrealist collage that is part children’s drawing, part hallucination. 

We believe that art can be a game as well as a technique, and that beauty generates beauty. 

Will you join us?

Chiara and Juan are the parents of Gaspar (1), whose name was borrowed from the first technique for capturing colours on cinematograph film: GasparColor. They are both producers and have worked together on several film projects since graduating from the San Antonio de los Baños Film and Television School. Chiara is also a programmer and works in the distribution field, while Juan is a film editor and works at an archive restoring old movies. Gaspar hasn’t drawn anything yet, or seen a complete film, but he’s going to use the invitation from the Museo CA2M to do all that for the first time.

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Cinema and video
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Público familiar
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SATURDAYS MARCH AND APRIL
PLAYING IMAGES, DREAMING GARDENS: CINEMA WITH ALL FIVE SENSES
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THREE TIMES OLDER: GROWING AS A FAMILY THROUGH CINEMA
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LITTLE ORPHANS
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GASPARCOLOR
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