Film series Plano/Contraplano
Cristales rotos (Broken Glass)

  Wednesday, 19 Feb
  18:00 h Guided tour of the photographic series De laborisby Pierre Gonnord
  19:00 h Cristales rotos (Broken glass). Víctor Erice. Portugal, 2012, 37 minutes. VOSE
  5€* (Includes both screenings)
MUN Theatre

Screening of the film and subsequent lecture by Jorge Latorre, university professor of Art History and researcher on Erice's cinema. 

In Víctor Erice's Broken Glass (Vidros partidos, 2012), the historic center of Guimarães (Braga, Portugal), although not physically present, intervenes in the film like the Asturian-Leonese basin and the border between Spain and Portugal in Gonnord's portraits, in the same way that the recreation in a Hollywood studio of the Welsh mining town operates in Ford's film. They serve as the foundation of the story and the memory of the characters. The Guimarães textile factory closes its doors after 150 years of existence, and Erice's camera collects the testimonies of its workers, who describe their trade with longing and bitter melancholy. Cristales rotos is the possibility of answering the question of what we are in the face of our memory. Erice's gaze -like those of Gonnord and Ford, foreign but complicit- is based on the shot/countershot, a device that sustains his cinematographic dialectic: there are shots that belong to the world of the living, the real characters; and there are others that belong to the world of the dead, the photographs of the past, which come back to life with the testimony of the workers. 

Jorge Latorre

Professor of Art History at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Fulbright Visiting Scholar at NYU and the ICP, both in New York. Visiting Professor at several universities in America and Europe. Researcher in history, theory and criticism of the arts, photography and film in Spain, Eastern Europe and Latin America. His specialization is contemporary art and Visual Culture (photography and film, especially) with special interest in the iconology of new media and imagology (comparative studies on the public image of institutions and human groups). Curator of more than 30 exhibitions, critic and essayist and also, although with less intensity, photographer and documentary filmmaker. Author of articles on cinema, and of the book "Three decades of Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive" (EIUNSA 2006), as well as international references on this director in World Cinema: SpainIntellect, 2011, or the epilogue in An Open Window. The cinema of Victor Erice (The Scarecrow Press, Lanham/London, 2007), republished by Linda Ehrlich. Other works on the work of Victor Erice include the chapter "Sauver Eurydice: le documentarisme poétique de Victor Erice", in the book J. Luc Lioult (ed.) Moving indexes of the world: from one century to the next, the documentaire (Publications De L'université De Provence, col " Hors Champ"-cinéma, photographie), Aix-en-Provence, 2008; the paper "El humus hispánico de Erice", XI Congreso de la AEHC (Savia nutricia? El lugar del realismo en el cine español), Córdoba, 2006; "La vida como milagro: algunas claves interpretativas del cine de Víctor Erice", Communication MagazineCommunication Faculty of the University of Piura (Peru), Vol. 6, January-December 2007; "Symbols and images in Lighting (2002, Víctor Erice)", ALDEEU, 2015, etc.