SCAN cinema
SCAN cinema
Organised by: URV Aula de Cinema
Aula Magna of Law Faculty of the URV
Avinguda de Catalunya, 35 (Campus Tarragona Centre)
43002 Tarragona
Free entry
Within the framework of the project “The image and the place”, the URV Aula de Cinema will screen two emblematic films: Easy Rider, by Dennis Hopper, and Innisfree, by José Luís Guerín.
Monday 11 May, 19 h Screening of Easy Rider, 1969. Dennis Hopper. 94’
One of the greats of North American cinema of the 1960s. Two young rebellious bikers from Los Angeles embark on a road trip to New Orleans, travelling south and trying to discover America. On the way they meet a group of strange and picturesque characters who in one way or another touch and transform their lives. Hopper received the First Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his work.
Tuesday 12 May, 19 h Screening of Innisfree, 1990. José Luis Guerín. 110’
“It all began during a visit to the places where 1951’s The Quiet Man was filmed. I entered a pub in a beautiful Irish village and heard four drunk old men talking about John Ford. In that moment I knew that here was the seed of a great film. That’s how the idea of “Innisfreee” was born”, explains director José Luis Guerín.
This year also at the library!
Tarragona Public Library
Fortuny, 30
43001 Tarragona
Tel. 977 240 331
http://bibliotecatarragona.gencat.cat
bptarragona.cultura@gencat.cat
Monday to Friday 10 to 20 h
Saturday 10 to 14 h
Public libraries are a wide, diverse, free spaces, full of knowledge and learning. Many of their users have restless, enquiring minds, and are not necessarily experts or professional artists. For this reason, the opportunity of presenting two of the SCAN conferences in the public library, a different domain to the normal, was not to be missed.
The two sessions that we offer are connected by the 'book' theme, which links the concept of photography with other cultural areas, in one case that of architectural photography, and in the other, literature and photography.
Saturday 9 May, 12 h
Conference by Lluís Casals, architectural photographer: “Architectural Photography: an illustrated literature. Documentarism and creativity from the edition, the publication and the archive.”
Free entry.
Specialising in architectural photography and interiors since 1972, Lluís Casals has worked on documenting projects and various architectural studies in Spain. He has collaborated on numerous publications both national and international. Since 1977 he has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars, and has given courses on photography. He has shown his work in different individual exhibitions and collectives. He has a personal archive of more than 20.000 images of Spanish and international architecture. He is a professor on the Masters in Photography at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Thursday 14 May, 12 h
Conference with Antonio Ansón, professor at Zaragoza University, essayist of literature, cinema and art: “What is a book of photography? The design and organisation of a collection of books of photography. What difference is there between a book and a catalogue?”
Free entry.
Antonio Ansón is the author of essays such as The isthmus of lights (1994), Novels as albums (2000) or The bootcleaner of Daguerre (2007), and has edited the monographs Photo and poetry (2002), One thousand stories of the image and one more (2004) and What to photograph for (2006). He has been director of courses on photography at the Menéndez Pelayo International University and, together with Ferdinando Scianna, of the next Encuentros de PhotoEspaña, Words and photos. He is director of the collection of photography books Cuarto Oscuro. Amongst his most recent books is the novel Knocking on heaven's door (Artemisa, 2007) and the French-Spanish bilingual edition of Pantys mortels (Le Grand Os, 2008).
Photography workshop for children
Venue: CaixaForum, Tarragona
Cristòfol Colom, 2
43001 Tarragona
Tel. 977 249 871
Workshop dates: Monday 11 and Friday 15 May at 18 h
Length: 1 h 15 min
For children aged 3-4, accompanied by their parents
Teachers:
Sílvia Iturria, professor of Photography at the School of Art and Design, Tortosa
Montse Veses, photographer and primary school teacher
The project consists of focusing on connecting the links between public
and private spaces, and how young children perceive them.
The activity will be based upon a cardboard box, considered as a
metaphor for an as yet uninhabited architectural space. A space that
the children will inhabit with their own images.
This workshop illustrates the experimental character of photography,
and offers a significant learning experience. Through the language of
art as a vehicle of expression, children can construct their own
personal world and develop their intuitive and imaginative abilities.