Dart Film Festival 2019
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Dart Festival, entering its third year when it begins on November 28, is the meeting point between cinema and art in Spain. It's a documentary festival with a difference—telling the stories behind some of the most important and interesting artistic movements and people in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Dart is Spain's only documentary film festival dedicated to contemporary art, a channel through which the public can engage with both culture and knowledge. This year, as ever, there will be a wide selection of diverse pieces focusing on artists and artistic movements from Spain and beyond, uncovering fascinating secrets about what makes an artist tick.
Screenings will take place in either Sala Phenomena or Cines Girona. Check on the website for more details.
Some of the highlights from this year include:
A Bigger Splash” – Jack Hazan (1974, restored in 2019 - Holland)
This will be the Spanish premiere of the cult 1974 documentary about the iconic British artist David Hockney, showing the painful breakup with his then partner, Peter Schlesinger. (English with Spanish subtitles)
“From the building of the future - 100 years of Bauhaus” – Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch (2018 - Germany)
To celebrate the centenary of the German Bauhaus movement, this documentary shows different creative spaces, buildings and cities where the revolutionary ideas of the artistic movement began. (In German with Spanish subtitles)
"The Man Who Stole Banksy" – Marco Proserpio (2018 - Italy)
The Premiere in Spain of this film about British street artist Banksy, who in 2007 entered Bethlehem and the occupied territories of Palestine to perform various artistic interventions, before showing the local taxi driver Walid who cut the wall to sell the art to the highest bidder. (English with Spanish subtitles)
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The topics of the documentaries cover specific art institutions, specific artists, artworks, projects from a visual artist to a collective or an art movement in general. It looks at countries from North Korea to Brazil, Spain to Germany. It's diverse, eclectic and not to be missed.
You can buy tickets through their website.
Look out for our reviews of some of the documentaries on show in the coming weeks.
For more events, check out our online events calendar.
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