On Saturday 31 January, at 12 noon, Ramon Balcells, a doctoral researcher from the CINEMA group, and the artist Dani Montlleó will present a live audiovisual essay at the Fundació Miró. This event is one of the activations of the exhibition La poesia tot just ha començat (Poetry Has Only Just Begun), which celebrates the institution’s fiftieth anniversary. It is also one of the outcomes of the industrial doctorate project that Balcells is carrying out at the Miró.

In 1978, Joseph Losey shot Les routes du sud in Barcelona, a film considered a “spiritual sequel” to Alain Resnais’s La guerre est finie. Written by Jorge Semprún, the screenplay was inspired by his own life story: that of a writer and former communist militant (Yves Montand) who experiences the final days of Francoism with disenchantment and uncertainty. One of the film’s most iconic sequences takes place at the Fundació Miró, which had only just opened at the time.

Drawing on this sequence, Balcells and Montlleó will develop a live audiovisual essay in which they will edit and comment on scenes from this and other films. The piece will combine images by Pere Portabella, Alain Resnais, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Tati, Carlos Saura, David Cronenberg and Jim Jarmusch to create a new montage in which the Fundació Miró becomes a film set, a laboratory for experimentation, a stage where anything can happen.

Places are limited.

Tickets: https://www.fmirobcn.org/ca/activitats/adults-i-altres-grups/0/391/desmuntatges