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Gandules. Open Air Cinema at the CCCB in Barcelona.

Lidia M Barcelonian, Only-Be, Things to do in Barcelona

It´s been 10 years since the first edition of Gandules, the free independent film circuit of the Catalan capital. Like every year, it will be the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, better known as the CCCB, that will be responsible for organizing and holding the 10th edition of this interesting summer cinematographic alternative. From the 7th of August, Gandules will take us an interesting cinematographic voyage, proposing those films that, despite their great success among the public and the critics, have never reached the commercial film circuit, at least not yet. The latter have remained, unfortunately, as films destined for a niche market, and that´s exactly where the importance and the mission of Gandules lies: bringing ´cult´ films, if we want to call it as such, to all types of public, make it visible and show it to all those outside the limits designated for independent film. That´s why it would be a crying shame that films such as ´The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jane, ´Bullhead´ or ´Verano´, to name a few, would stay in the shadows. During the whole month of August, with some days break in between screenings, 9 films will be presented in original version, plus a tenth one that will be chosen by the public through a vote on the CCCB webpage. Because this year is the 10th anniversary of Gandules, they´ve decided to celebrate it giving internet users the chance to decide which film will close the 2012 festival. Users can vote for the film they like the most among a list that includes some of the most significative films of the past editions. For the time... read more

Microconcerts at the Palau: Palau 30 minutes

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

For some time to this part there seems to be increasingly unstoppable progress in the worlds of small, of tiny. Both in the world of cutting-edge science, dominated by quantum investigations around the invisible subatomic particles and the increasingly decisive advances in the fields of nanotechnology, as in the communications, note the unstoppable rise of messages text and its strong trend towards ever smaller forms, as in the artistic creation on the footsteps of writers such as Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Monterroso or Robert Walser, author between 1924 and 1932 of several hundred of typed pages known as micrograms in which not necessarily the sentences are shortened but the font size, shrinks to a point where it becomes unreadable, it took the students of his work and Werner Morlang Bernhard Echte over 15 years to decipher him convincingly. Walser himself seems to have suggested in a letter that his decision to move to write ridiculously tiny had somewhat to do with a desire or willingness to surrender to the dissolution of the writing itself, through which is possible to see the opening of accessing anything that justifies it. The truth is that micrograms dealing with common issues by the Swiss writer reflects a taste for walking and rambling thst are clearly defined,a passion for detail and the ephemeral seems to jump and grab you by surprise. This is an aesthetic method that has characterized much of the artistic vanguard of the last hundred or a hundred and fifty years, a way of being in a world that resonates powerful as in the book of Vila-Matas Brief History of portable literature, a volume... read more