Plan/Counterplan
Art and artifice in the mockumentary
The Museum remodels its film seasons to bring them closer to the main events programmed in exhibitions, performing arts and music.
María Noguera, professor at the School of Communication and film expert, will be in charge of the MUN's film series. The new programming is conceived as a counterplan that dialogues and expands the themes, forms and questions proposed to the public from the artistic programming of each season at the Museum.
This 1st edition gathers a selection of works, by Prof. Alberto Nahum García, under the title Art and Artifice in the mockumentary.
All of Cristina de Middel's work traverses that blurred borderline that separates reality from fiction. This same eagerness operates in the genre of the mockumentary, which uses codes and conventions of the documentary to develop fictional narratives, either cinematographic or television, with eminently parodic intentions.
Art and artifice in the mockumentary reveals that every lie builds around itself a parallel world that is articulated around the logic of a truth, a particularly suggestive issue when it concerns art and certain dynamics of imitation, falsification or spectacularization.
Alberto Nahum García is a professor at the Faculty of Communication and author of the book Series Contra Cultura as well as the blog diamantesenserie.com. Nahum García will give a lecture to open the series on Wednesday, November 17, at 7 p.m., before the screening of F for fake.
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Casas Viejas: the cry of the SouthWednesday, December 1, 2021, 7:00 pm. Direction and screenplay: Basilio Martín Patino Tickets 3€, free for students UNAV and Friends of the Museum |
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While several historians offer data on the events and their background: unemployment, hunger, latifundia, frustration of the hopes created by the proclamation of the Republic, etc., some current residents of the village comment on old photos and the descendants of the protagonists talk about their ancestors. The work is part of a television series of seven films about Andalusia called "Andalusia, a century of fascination". |
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The kidnapping of Michel HouellebecqWednesday, December 15, 2021, 7:00 pm. Dir.: Guillaume Nicloux. Tickets 3€, free for students UNAV and Friends of the Museum |
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The film is based on a real event - his disappearance in 2011 during the presentation tour of the novel El mapa y el territorio - and builds a hilarious and cartoonish story, as a reportage, with touches of thriller and absurd comedy. |
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F for fakeWednesday, November 17, 2021, 7:00 p.m. (After the inaugural colloquium of the series with Prof. Alberto Nahum García) Dir.: Orson Welles. Screenplay: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar. Tickets 3€, free for students UNAV and Friends of the Museum |
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Thanks to an astonishing montage exercise, the film borrows procedures from collage that allow us to consider the relationship between truth and lies in the world of art. |
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This is Spinal TapWednesday, November 24, 2021, 7:00 pm. Director: Rob Reiner. Screenplay: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner. Tickets 3€, free for students UNAV and Friends of the Museum |
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It consists of a parodic story about the peculiar modus vivendi of the old rockers, based on interviews, testimonies and supposed archive images. |
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