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  LES LINIES DEL CEL : TRENCADÍS D´UN HORITZÓ
   

In essence, the installation has a series of video projections, together with audio, where one can find the words of those film-makers of the so-called Barcelona School who, from a position of commitment and break-up, took their cameras to offer a view of Barcelona during the transition. This project intends to provoke a reflection around the role of the artist and his relationship with space and, by extension, with society; a relationship which is presented in terms of the attitude which the artist has adopted in a specific time, with regards to this vital environment and its subsequent transformations.

 
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I never felt the need that my political activism used cinema as a political instrument, because I had a double activity, I had already fulfilled my political commitment with political practice, connected to anti-Franco fight. Whenever I made films, I always did it as a means, as a language, as a fully free method to articulate my own language, to develop my work as a producer…

 

 ©Pedro Ortuño 2010