On the occasion of World Audiovisual Heritage Day, Girona City Council, through the Center for Image Research and Dissemination (CRDI) and the Cinema Museum, and with the collaboration of the Friends of UNESCO, are organizing two activities that have in common the relations between cinema and the written press.

Amateur cinema in Girona through the bulletins of the associations

Conference.

Lloc: Municipal Archive of Girona

Dia: Thursday, October23

Hora: 19 h

From the creation of the amateur cinema section of the Grup Excursionista i Esportiu Gironí (GEiEG) in 1936, to the celebration of the last Antoni Varés Amateur Cinema Trophy in 1976, non-professional cinematographic production in Girona was linked to associations and cinema clubs as spaces for the screening of the works of amateur filmmakers.

Some cultural associations gave a great boost to amateur cinema by creating cinema sections and disseminating their activities through bulletins that were published with more or less regularity. Thanks to these publications, today we can have a fairly exhaustive knowledge of the cinema that was produced in the city outside the commercial cinemas. We refer to the bulletin of the Grup Excursionista i Esportiu Gironí (GEiEG), which has been published since 1920, the Bulletin of the Agrupació Fotogràfica i Cinematogràfica de Girona (AFIC), which was published between 1954 and 1976, and the Bulletin of the Cine-Club Ademar, of which three issues published between 1967 and 1968 are preserved.

This event aims to publicize the amateur cinema that was made in Girona over four decades, through information extracted from the bulletins and the screening of some fragments of films that will help illustrate the information presented.

The event will be hosted by Gisela Vicenç and Pau Saavedra, from the Center for Image Research and Dissemination.

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Presentation of the edition of the issue of La Novela Cinematográfica Semanal, with the conference of Aurora Bertrana on Murnau's Tabú and the collection of cinematographic publications of the Museum of Cinema

Conference.

Lloc: Museum of Cinema

Dia: Thursday, October 30

Hora: 19 h

Presentation of the edition made by Adriana Bàrcia and the Center for Studies of Avià of the special issue of La Novela Cinematográfica Semanal, which features the conference that Aurora Bertrana gave during the premiere of the film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas by F.W. Murnau at the Cinema Coliseum in Barcelona, in December 1931.

This volume also includes stills from the film and contains a prologue-study in which Adriana Bàrcia analyses the conference and Aurora Bertrana's relationship with cinema, especially that of the period, as well as several press clippings. The text has been translated into Catalan by Adriana Bàrcia José herself.

The presentation will be given by Adriana Bàrcia José, writer, philologist and specialist in Aurora Bertrana, and by Daniel Montañá Buchaca, representative of the Center for Studies of Avià.

Afterwards, the director of the Museum of Cinema, Jordi Pons, and the curator Montse Puigdevall will present the collection of cinematographic publications preserved at the Museum of Cinema, among which are several issues of La Novela Cinematográfica Semanal.

Starting on October 21st, a sample of the cinematographic magazine-novels from its collection will be exhibited in the lobby of the Museum of Cinema, such as: Los grandes films mudos y sonoros, La película de aventuras, Junior Films, La novela Metro Goldwyn, Biblioteca-Films, Argumento, Gran novela cinematográfica, and Novela cinematográfica semanal.