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.

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.