Guernica on the Screen

“Eyes on Spain” Film Screening Series

January 27, 2016 6:30 PM –
January 27, 2016 8:00 PM
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Still from the film “Guernica” (1949) by Robert J. Flaherty
Still from the film “Guernica” (1949) by Robert J. Flaherty
As the fourth event of the film series “Eyes on Spain: Screening the Civil War Memories”, accompanying the “Mexican Suitcase” exhibition, we screen films representing the air strike of the Basque town of Guernica. The films will be introduced by Sonia Gárcia López, film historian. The “Eyes on Spain” film screening series is a cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Budapest and the Cervantes Institute.
Events
film screening
Eyes on Spain. Screening the Civil War Memories

Embajada de España en Hungría Instituto Cervantes Budapest

The Mexican Suitcase
The Mexican Suitcase – Opening Event Trisha Ziff, The Mexican Suitcase (2011) Carolina Astudillo, The Great Flight (2014) The Visual Politics of Gesture Guernica on the Screen José Luis Cuerda, Butterfly (1999) Péter Forgács, El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005) Carlos Saura, ¡Ay Carmela! (1990) – The Songs of the Spanish Civil War Joris Ivens, Spanish Earth (1937) and the Rita Góbi Dance Company
As the fourth event of the film series “Eyes on Spain: Screening the Civil War Memories”, accompanying the “Mexican Suitcase” exhibition, we screen films representing the air strike of the Basque town of Guernica. The films will be introduced by Sonia Gárcia López, film historian. The “Eyes on Spain” film screening series is a cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Budapest and the Cervantes Institute.

The Basque town of Guernica (Spain) is a symbol of culture, history, and civilization. Its destruction, after the air strike carried out by the Condor Legion in April 1937, has become a symbol of the inhumanity of the Total War. The bombing of Guernica has been widely represented in film, and in the media. Nevertheless, the cameras were missing when the air raid took place, so most filmic representations had to resort to metaphors and allegories representing the event. This session is devoted to the filmic representation of the destruction of Guernica, the iconic dimension it achieved with the famous painting by Pablo Picasso, and its later articulation as a symbol of fight for peace from a global perspective.

Guernika (directed by Nemesio M. Sobrevila, 1937), 23’
Spanish, with English subtitles
Guernica (directed by Robert J. Flaherty, 1949), 12’
English (intertitles)
Guernica (directed by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens, 1950), 13’
French, with English subtitles
The Guernica Variations (La variaciones Guernica, directed by Guillermo G. Peydró, 2012), 26’ Spanish, with English subtitles

Introduction by Sonia Gárcia López (film historian, University Carlos III, Madrid)

Admission free. Seating is first-come first-served basis.
The films are screened in original languages with English subtitles. 

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