The conciliation between the 'empty' and the 'full' Spain, at Pantalla Pavelló

Pantalla Pavelló is a unique cinema cycle for a few reasons. Firstly, because it will be held in an unusual venue, the travertine of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Secondly, because of the subject matter: the relationship between the built environment, its limits, and its borders; the people who inhabit it, and how this relationship is accentuated and revealed in its maximum expression. After not being able to celebrate last year's edition due to the pandemic, the cycle returns this summer following the theme of the Spanish Biennal of Architecture and Urbanism. The title and subject of Pantalla Pavelló will be the same as that of the Biennal —España vacía, España llena. Strategies for Conciliation—and will be exhibited through three screenings, one in each month of the summer.

The first screening will take place on Monday, 12 July with a film from 2019 by Arturo Dueñas, Tierras construidas. It portrays a group of artists that, in the 60s, settled in a village in deep Spain to turn it into a cultural centre. The second screening, on 2 August, is that of En construcción, by José Luis Guerin, an awarded documentary that premiered in 2000 and is set in Barcelona. It shows us how the mutation of the urban landscape also implies a mutation in the human landscape. The program will close on 6 September with El cielo gira, a 2004 feature film by Mercedes Álvarez filmed in a small village of 14 inhabitants in the province of Soria. It tells the story of an artist who arrives there intending to live in the village for a short time.

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