Plan / Counterplan
Awakening to life

 Friday / March 1st / 18:00h
 97 min + discussion
 3€ (free for Friends of the Museum and UNAV students)
THEATER

The film series Plano/Contraplano Adorables mentiras: la verdad resplandece en el cine engages in dialogue with Vik Muniz's exhibition Flora Industrialis.

The core of the Brazilian artist's photographs deals with time in its entirety, with photographs that bring life to what is dead, creating tension between the image and what is represented. He questions our approach to reality in a technified world accustomed to its representations. To expand the encounter with Muniz's photographs, this cycle presents two films that reflect how cinema constructs lies in order to arrive at a great truth.
 

WAKING UP TO LIFE
UNITED STATES, 2001, 97 MIN, VOSE.

DIRECTOR
RICHARD LINKLATER

Richard Linklater presents a dreamlike dimension of reality, reinforced by the instability conveyed by rotoscopic animation. This technique redraws, frame by frame, the material previously filmed on celluloid or digital film. In this way, we witness the metamorphosis of reality into a dream and how it points towards a questioning of physical limits and a process of disfiguring everything we perceive as real.

Do we walk asleep through our waking state or do we walk awake through our dreams?

After the screening, conference with film critic Sergi Sánchez.

BIOGRAPHY

Sergi Sánchez (Barcelona, 1970)

PhD in Film Theory from Pompeu Fabra University (2011). Director of the Master in Film Studies and Visual Cultures and director of the Department of Film Studies with Maria Adell at ESCAC, where he teaches Modern Cinema and Trends in Contemporary Cinema. Professor of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication and the Master's Degree in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual at UPF. Film critic for Fotogramas and La Razón. He has collaborated, among other publications, in Avui, El Cultural de El Mundo, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, Time Out Barcelona and El Periódico de Catalunya, where he still works as a literary critic. He was scriptwriter and coordinator of the program Días de cine ( TVE) and of several documentaries for Canal Plus, as well as Programming Director of the channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies). Author of Hacia una imagen no-tiempo. Deleuze and contemporary cinema, David Lean. The geography of emotion, Akira Kurosawa. The Sound and the Fury, Tom DiCillo. The Wizard of Oz, Michael Winterbottom. The Order of Chaos, The Hartley Variations and The 100 Key Science Fiction Movies. He has collaborated in numerous collective books, among others, on Australian fantastic cinema, musical cinema, Jacques Demy, Alain Resnais, Dario Argento, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, American independent cinema, Richard Brooks, Georges Franju and Nagisa Oshima, as well as co-editing, together with Pablo G. Polite, El sonido de la velocidad and co-writing, together with Jordi Costa, Terry Gilliam. The Rebel Dreamer.