Held on 16 nov 2012
Each week, during the months of November and December, projections and project presentations by researchers, artists and cultural producers will be held. How do these creators approach and activate collaborative processes in their audiovisual productions? How much of a political and social transformation dimension do such processes have?
In collaboration with
Instituto Francés-Embajada Francesa de Madrid, Goethe Institut de Madrid and Casa de Velázquez – Académie de France de Madrid
Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía, Vicedecanato de Extensión Universitaria of Facultad de Bellas Artes at UCM and Subtramas Research Group (Diego del Pozo, Montse Romaní, Virginia Villaplana)
In collaboration with
Presentation of the research with Diego del Pozo, Montse Romaní, and Virginia Villaplana, Research Group Subtramas. Collaborative audiovisual production practices.
Presentation of the project with Sara Fuentes and Rosalía Jordán, researchers at the Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre.
Collaboration project that explores the relevance of feelings and emotions in the daily life of vulnerable and precarious bodies that experience discrimination based on gender, class, functionality, race, and/or sexuality in the Lavapiés neighbourhood (Madrid). The presentation will include the activation of the audiovisual mechanisms generated: map and video essay by Marta Huertas and Lydia Fernández.
Berwick Street Film Collective, 90', United Kingdom, 1972-75, B/W, original language with Spanish subtitles.
A collective film set during the unionisation campaign of nightshift cleaners in London, who were victims of wage precarisation. This film is recognised as a key work of experimental political cinema in the 1970s in the United Kingdom.
Presentation of the collective with Christian Lehman, María Otero, and Paolo Pistolesi.
The audiovisual commission of Madrid's 15M movement has been producing audiovisual information about the actions of the movement since May 2011 and the alternative critical narratives of the current economic crisis, as well as producing documentaries and films using collaborative and collective methodologies.
http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/tv/
Children of Srikandi Collective, 74’, Indonesia-Germany, 2012, colour, original language with Spanish subtitles.
The first documentary about queer identity in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. The participants worked collectively, using personal experiences ranging from observational documentary to conceptual art or biographical essay, to explore queer politics, violence, social exclusion, religious beliefs, and sexual identity.
www.childrenofsrikandi.com/film/
+1: On the personal and the political, Odile Magniez, 2012, 6'. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
+42: Indignant Feminists, Irene Bailo, 2012, 5'30. Original language with French subtitles.
-66: The signs of power, Jesús Acevedo, 2012, 2'20.
+7: Life and death of a group in a video game, Damien Dedieu, 2012, 5'30. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
+33: Plato's Cave and the City-Image, Benoît Perraud, 2012, 6'. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
+44: Participatory council, Carmen Comadrán, 2012, 5'45. Original language with French subtitles.
+46: Colonial anthropology, Pilar Monsell, 2012, 5'41. Original language with French subtitles.
+89: Persecuted and hidden, Sylvain George, 2012, 6'20. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
100jours is an ephemeral collective and an online project formed by 100 short films directed by visual artists from different countries. Shown during the 100 days leading up to the second round of the French presidential elections in 2012, one film per day, these works aim to understand the history of our relationships as the foundation of the political and imagine what lies ahead.
www.100jours2012.org/
Claire Glorieux, 2011, 16’. Presentation by Xabier Baudoin, director of art studies at Casa de Velázquez - Académie de France in Madrid.
In one of the Canary Islands, a whistling language is used, which was previously employed to communicate with those who are far away, before the advent of roads or mobile phones. The filmmaker went there to learn the language by attending whistling classes in schools.
Presentation of the project with the Catenaria Collective, formed by researchers from the Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre. The collective promotes a debate on issues related to collaboration, aiming to highlight and disrupt the mechanisms that establish conduct criteria in museums.
Presentation of the project with students from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad de Murcia and Pedro Ortuño, artist and professor at the same institution.
This collaborative audiovisual project was developed as part of the Interventions in Urban and Natural Spaces class. It focuses on the La Paz working-class neighbourhood in Murcia, known for its cultural diversity and controversial nature. The city council has had plans for urban remodelling for years, which would alter the neighbourhood's identity.
13, 14, 15 NOV, 11, 12, 13 DIC 2025
Christian Nyampeta is a Rwandan artist, musician and film-maker whose work encompasses pedagogies and community forms of knowledge production and transmission. His Ècole du soir (Evening School) is an art project conceived as a mobile space of collective learning and is named in homage to Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007), a pioneer of African cinema who defined his films as “evening classes” for the people, a medium of education and emancipation through culture.
This block is made up of three double sessions: the video work of Christian Nyampeta, the films of École du soir and one of Ousmane Sèmbene’s feature-length films. Nyampeta will introduce all three first sessions.
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 NOV 2025
Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place from November 11th to 16th in Madrid and Barcelona.
The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale, a confederation of museums, art organizations and universities that strives to reimagine and practice internationalism, solidarity and communality within the cultural field. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present —colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological— complexities.
Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
In the current context fraught with war and genocide, the criminalization of migration and hyper-identitarianism, concepts such as un/belonging become unstable and in need of collective rethinking:
How can we reframe the sense and practice of belonging away from reductive nationalist paradigms or the violence of displacement? How to critically hold the entanglement of the colonial routes and the cultural roots we are part of? What do we do with the toxic legacies we inherit? And with the emancipatory genealogies and practices that we choose to align with? Can a renewed practice of belonging and coalition-making through affinity be part of a process of dis/identification? What geographies —cultural, artistic, political— do these practices of de/centering, up/rooting, un/belonging and dis/alignment designate?
Departing from these questions, the program consists of a series of visits to situated initiatives (including Museo Situado, Paisanaje and MACBA's Kitchen, to name a few), engagements with the exhibitions and projects on view (Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture from Panafrica), a keynote lecture by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, as well as daily reading and discussion gatherings, editorial harvest sessions, and conviviality moments.
Friday, 7 November 2025 - 7pm
In this activity, the recipients of the 2024–2025 Joaquim Jordà Residencies call, María Aparicio (Argentina, 1992) and Andrés Jurado (Colombia, 1980), present respective projects related to their body of work in an open session in which to discover the creative interests of two of the most up-and-coming independent film-makers in Latin America today.
María Aparicio presents the working process behind her film De sol a sol (From Sun to Sun), along with a brief journey through the films prior to this project and her filmic searches in recent years. Aparicio synthesises the storyline of De sol a sol from the silhouettes of a group of men who appear between the stalks of a reedbed. Their knives glisten as the sun hits them, flashing and disappearing with their hand movements. Apprentices split the canes using no method; seasoned workers cut with skill. They are workers from a sugar mill in northern Argentina and are watched by Juan Bialet Massé, accompanied by Rosich, assistant and photographer. It is Argentina in 1904 and he is carrying out a mission assigned to him by his country’s government: to travel the Argentinian provinces, reporting on the state of the working classes.
Andrés Jurado, for his part, will look over his own work and the work of the La Vulcanizadora lab in this session. He will also open the archive stemming from the research process in the project Tonada, a journey through the succession of peace agreement betrayals in the history of Colombia. From the colonial era, understood in tumultuous terms, as a hurricane that keeps swirling, to the present day he traces the stories of people like Tacurrumbí, Benkos Biohó, Bateman and the many women and men who were betrayed by governments and oppressors. Tonada seeks to build a sound and film dialogue between the guerrilla disarmament of 1953 and the period following the peace agreement of 2016, invoking these and other events and confronting traumas of betrayal through a film composition devised to be sung. But what is sung? Some of these songs are heard and voices are shared in this presentation.
The Joaquim Jordà Residences programme for film-makers and artists was set in motion by the Museo Reina Sofía in 2022. The initiative comprises a grant for writing a film project rooted in experimentation and essay, as well as two subsequent residencies in FIDMarseille and Doclisboa, international film festivals devoted to exploring non-fictional film and new forms of audiovisual expression.
Thursday, 6 November - 8pm
The encounter between Spanish DJ and producer Ylia and visual artist Marta Pang is presented in the form of a premiere in the Museo Reina Sofía. Both artists converge from divergent trajectories to give form to a new project conceived specifically for this series, which aims to create new stage projects by setting out from the friction between artists and dialogue between disciplines.
![Carol Mansour y Muna Khalidi, A State of Passion [Estado de pasión], 2024, película](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/palestine%20cinema%20day%202.jpg.webp)
Sábado 1 de noviembre, 2025 – 19:00 h
The Museo Reina Sofia joins the global action in support of Palestine with the screening of A State of Passion (2024), a documentary by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. The film features in Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, an annual festival, held globally every November, which aims to show films made in Palestine to an international audience. The initiative was conceived as a form of cultural resistance which seeks to give a voice to artists from Palestine, question dominant narratives and create networks of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Palestine Cinema Days Around the World originates from Palestine Cinema Days, a festival organised in Palestine since 2014 with the aim of granting visibility to Palestinian cinema and to support the local film community. In 2023 the festival was postponed because of the war in Gaza, and has since become borderless in scope, holding close to 400 international screenings in almost sixty countries in 2024. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine and broadens the voices and support networks of the Palestinian people around the world.
A State of Passion exposes the atrocities committed against the Gaza population via the testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a Palestinian-British plastic surgeon living in London who decides to return to Gaza and save lives in the city’s hospitals amid the Israeli army’s indiscriminate bombing of the population. A necessary film exposé of the experience of unrelentingly working twenty-four hours a day for forty-three days in the Al Shifa and Al Ahli Hospitals in the city of Gaza.
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)