Screening of Joventut, solitud (2013, 24’, Eloi Teixidor) and Dime quién era Sanchicorrota (2013, 63’, Jorge Tur) followed by talk and discussion with the directors.

Jorge Tur is a film maker who gives classes in the Master's Degree course in Documentary Film at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Sanchicorota is his first feature-length film. The film notes read as follows:

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s the legend of Sanchicorrota, a fifteenth-century bandit who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. The quest for the origins and forgotten tale of this figure, half-historical, half-legendary lead only (though notably) to shepherds, sheep, hunters, film sets, a military base, and memories of Spain’s painful recent history lying forgotten in a cabin in the Bardenas desert.

The film premiered at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) and recently won best documentary prize at the Toulouse festival.

After watching the film, we will have an opportunity to talk to the director and join in a discussion between Jorge and one of the students from his Master’s class.

How do you teach people to look, sort, jumble, listen, edit, reject, erase? How do you teach people to record pictures and sounds?

Joventut, solitud is an ensemble film made by a group of twenty-something year old students: Eloi Teixidor, Iris Domato, Nihan Yildiz, Teresa Mata and Jesús Boyero. It is also an exercise in total liberty in which texts by Pessoa and Josep Pla are fearlessly combined with a WhatsApp conversation, the pixels from a mobile phone and a dance to the camera. This is the shared future, on our phones, in our pockets, in first person, with double check marks.