We are now moving through a very bleak period in human history - where the convergence of postmodernist cynicism (eliminating humanistic and critical thinking from the education system), sheer greed engendered by the consumer society sweeping many people under its wing, human, economic and environmental catastrophe in the form of globalisation, massively increased suffering and exploitation of the people of the so-called Third World, as well as the mind-numbing conformity and standardization caused by the systematic audiovisualization of the planet have synergistically created a world where ethics, morality, human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) are considered old fashioned. Where excess and economic exploitation have become the norm - to be taught even to children. In such a world as this, what happened in Paris in the spring of 1871 represented (and still represents) the idea of commitment to a struggle for a better world, and of the need for some form of collective social Utopia - which WE now need as desperately as dying people need plasma. The notion of a film showing this commitment was thus born.

We are now moving through a very bleak period in human history - where the convergence of postmodernist cynicism (eliminating humanistic and critical thinking from the education system), sheer greed engendered by the consumer society sweeping many people under its wing, human, economic and environmental catastrophe in the form of globalisation, massively increased suffering and exploitation of the people of the so-called Third World, as well as the mind-numbing conformity and standardization caused by the systematic audiovisualization of the planet have synergistically created a world where ethics, morality, human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) are considered old fashioned. Where excess and economic exploitation have become the norm - to be taught even to children. In such a world as this, what happened in Paris in the spring of 1871 represented (and still represents) the idea of commitment to a struggle for a better world, and of the need for some form of collective social Utopia - which WE now need as desperately as dying people need plasma. The notion of a film showing this commitment was thus born.

At the height of the Vietnam war, with the media drumming up the war and patriotism, Cassius Clay took the name Mohammed Ali and refused to go to war or to participate in propaganda activities. He paid the price of being stripped of his world heavyweight title and faced a prison sentence. “No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters over dark people the world over."

CRA'P - pràctiques de creació i recerca artística ( creation practices and artistic research )

4th November from 7:30pm to 9:30pm

• “Le jour a vaincu la nuit” by Jean-Gabriel Périot , 28’ (France) (2013). VO. French. Subtitles in Spanish.

Eight portraits, eight dreams, eight escapes.

• “Solitude at the end of the World”   by Carlos Casas, 52’ (Argentina) (2002). VO. Spanish.

In one of the least populated regions of the world, a few men lead lives in total solitude, spending months and months alone. This documentary tells the story of three of these men. Isolated from the world for different reasons, they survive in a suspended time of their own in one of the harshest environments of the world.

• “How to be a recluse” by Laurel Swenson, 4’ (Canada) (1998). VO. English. Subtitles in Spanish.

A series of ‘advices’ on how to gain independence and control in the face of the difficulties implicit in human relationships

Limited places, early booking: info@cra-p.org / 666 763 504

CRA'P - pràctiques de creació i recerca artística ( creation practices and artistic research )

Anselm Clavé 67, 3r - 08100 Mollet del Vallès - Barcelona

CRA'P - pràctiques de creació i recerca artística

25 March from 19:30h to 21:30h

• “Les Dormants“ by Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd , 65’ (Belgium) (2009). VO. French. Subtitles in Spanish.

The four stories in this film transports us from Belgium to the banks of the Senegal River, from the French Ardennes to the mountains of the Western Sahara.

What they have in common is that they lead us to meet the sleepers. Men and women moving between two worlds, that of the absent and that of the living, between two states, that of awake and that of sleep.

In each of these stories lies a mystery free from all belief, all philosophy, all attempts at explanation. A mystery capable of re-enchanting the reality.

• “La vida en armonia” by Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 15’ (Morocco) (2018). VO. Arabic. Subtitles in Spanish.

A conversation with a woman who washes and massages the women who go to the hammam (public baths), helps bring the neighbourhood children into the world, and to wash the dead.

Limited places, early booking: info@cra-p.org / 666 763 504

CRA'P - pràctiques de creació i recerca artística ( creation practices and artistic research )

Anselm Clavé 67, 3r - 08100 Mollet del Vallès