Museo Reina Sofía, in its role as a vehicle of knowledge and reflection, as well as an impulse for new spaces for experimentation, creation and dissemination of contemporary art, sets in motion a number of diverse lines of thought and debate. The development of research, analysis and debate frameworks which can imbue the narrative of the Collection with an additional dimension, as well as the programming of exhibitions.The setting in motion of discussion forums on key issues of contemporary debate relevant to the museum as an institution dedicated to providing citizens with frameworks for the critical analysis of culture.The experimentation with alternative methods of mediation between the citizens and the museum's proposals, taking up as a starting point the experience of artists and of the agents with whom the museum establishes collaboration.
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From 7 to 23 March 2024 - Check programme
The Films of José Rodríguez Soltero: Cuir/Queer Latinx
Film Series
José Rodríguez Soltero (Santurce, 1943 – New York, 2009) was an experimental film-maker whose productions were made across the 1960s and 1970s. His audiovisual work stands at the intersection of the avant-garde, queer representations and Latin culture from that era (specifically, Nuyoricans: Puerto Ricans living in New York). This film series screens all three and features presentations by Juan A. Suárez, a specialist in North American underground cinema, Rolando Peña, a Venezuelan artist and protagonist in Dialogue with Che, and MM Serra, a film-maker, curator and film archivist who oversaw the restoration of the three works.
Activity of: The Caribbean Relation
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From 11 to 30 September 2023 - 7pm
José María Berzosa
Chili Impressions
José María Berzosa (Spain, 1928 — France, 2018) is a missing link in the history of Spanish cinema, his filmography, made entirely in France, characterised by the use of sarcasm and parody against despotic power. The documentary’s four episodes unmask the monstrosities of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, while also spotlighting film’s capacity to confront tyranny and represent the subjugated.
Activity of: Chile or Utopian Imagination
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Thursday, 30 March and Saturday, 1 April 2023 - 7pm
Interval 37. Elena López Riera
Water and Entrails
This fresh edition of Interval presents El agua (Water, 2022), a feature film by Elena López Riera (Spain, 1982), accompanied by Las vísceras (Entrails, 2016), a short film on the ritual and attraction of daily rural life. López Riera, with a filmography straddling gruesome realism and magical thinking, has established herself as one of the most original voices in new Spanish cinema.
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power
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Thursday, 16 and Saturday, 18 March 2023 - 7pm
Interval 36. Charlotte Wells
Tuesday and Aftersun
The Museo Reina Sofía’s ongoing programme of film premieres, Intervals, shows recent works made either during the year in progress or the previous one. This fresh edition is devoted to Charlotte Wells (Scotland, 1987), 2022’s standout film-maker for her debut feature Aftersun (2022), a beautiful and melancholy reflection on family relationships, the real and imaginary dimension of memories and the passing of time.
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power
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Thursday, 9, and Saturday, 11 March 2023 - 6pm
Chantal Akerman
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
The Museo Reina Sofía screens Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Chantal Akerman’s (Brussels, 1950 – Paris, 2015) classic and widely acclaimed film. The screening is presented by Laura Mulvey, an historian and feminist film theorist and author of the essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Film Narrative’, first published the same year as Akerman’s film was released.
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power
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Thursday, 2 and Saturday, 4 March 2023 - 7pm
Interval 35. Paz Encina
Eami
This latest edition of Interval presents Eami (2022), a film by Paz Encina (Paraguay, 1971) which, through magic realism, narrates the Indigenous conception of the world and the massacre of nature at the hands of financial exploitation. The film won the Tiger Award for Best Feature Film at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power
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Thursday, 23 February and Friday, 3 March 2023 - 7pm
Sarah Maldoror
Sambizanga and Miró, peintre
In conjunction with the restoration of Sambizanga(1973–1974), a key work among the political films made in Africa, this double session is structured around the French film-maker of African origins Sarah Maldoror (Gers, 1929 – Paris, 2020).
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power