Otrascosas Gallery by Villarrosàs

The Otrascosas gallery, which belongs to the advertising agency Villarrosàs, offers Barcelona residents somewhere to enjoy all kinds of ideas. You must have passed by there loads of times: Via Laietana, 64. One of the floors of this building, Otrascosas, a gallery that accommodates every kind of artistic manifestation.

So far, during the two months and a bit it has been open to the public, Otrascosas has held concerts - like the one given by the Swedish band Billie The Vision & The Dancers - various screenings and an exhibition entitled Trochut + Apparatu Vol.1, which is on at the gallery until 16 December.

The aim, according to Marc Morro, who is in charge of Otrascosas, is to ‘run a weekly programme of talks, documentary screenings, concerts, theatre or whatever’. In other words, as he said himself: ‘That something happens every week.’

They happen and will happen because Otrascosas plans to revolutionise your Christmas festivities. From 17 December you will find an exhibition-market where you will be able to see and buy, at affordable prices, clothes produced by young designers.

At the same time, another part of the gallery will be dominated by a very special Christmas tree, made out of TV sets which will be showing different takes on Christmas.

The common feature of all of them is they have been recorded by all sorts of people using a digital camera which records with a texture similar to Super 8.

Via Laietana nº64, Principal - www.otrascosasdevillarrosas.com
Mondays to Fridays: 10.00-14.00h / 16.00-19.30h* *except openings

In-Edit: Music Documentary Film Festival

Born in 2003 with the intention of showing the most outstanding music documentaries, the In-Edit.Beefeater Festival continues its voyage into this extensive year, 2009.

 The festival, held at Cine Rex, will be reviewing the career of the videoclip and musical documentary pioneer, Peter Whitehead. During the final section of the festival, the first time it has been publicised, there will be various films focusing on the role music plays in cultural and popular celebrations.

The most obvious example is ‘Favela on Blast’, a film that avoids clichés on Brazilian faveles and which focuses on the most festive point of view. This is the work of Wesley Pentz, better known in the music world as Diplo. The film itself is expected to be an all-round festival of rhythm and fun.

What we find in ‘Soul Power’ is a celebration of being black. We journey to the Zaire of 1974 to relive the concert given by James Brown, Miriam Makeba and B.B. King. It will fill you with the playful spirit of Black Power.

The role of music in black civil rights movements is explored in ‘Soundtrack for a Revolution’, another film which regards music as a part of culture.

As for more local culture, ‘Febrero: cuando la vida es carnaval’ (February: when life’s a carnival) will take us to the Cadiz carnival from a whole array of perspectives.

On concert documentaries, we’ll be able to relive the performance by Johnny Cash in Folsom prison. What’s more, we’ll discover a deeper side to the United States in ‘The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America’ and the influence of Brazilian music on the West in ‘Beyond Ipanema’.

What: In-Edit.Beefeater Festival
When: October 29th - November 8th
Where: Cine Rex Barcelona
Gran Vía Corts Catalanes, 463
More inf@: In-Edit Website

9th Docúpolis, the Barcelona International Documentary Festival

The best documentaries are being shown at the CCCB (Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture) until to Sunday 4 October, where over 100 documentaries await you from all over the world.

Keeping to their line of offering groundbreaking and committed documentaries, this will be the 9th edition of the Docúpolis provides a platform for spotting and showing new audiovisual languages with little chance of appearing on TV or cinema screens.

The documentaries competing in the competition’s various categories for this year’s official festival awards have been selected from more than a thousand submitted from up to 63 countries.

Without doubt the pick of the official awards is the Docúpolis Award for best documentary, with a prize of 6.000€. This year 12 documentaries with very different themes and from very different locations are in the running.

One of the twelve that stands out is the Argentinian ‘Mundo Alas’, which will be screened at the inaugural session and is a road movie describing a tour of Argentina undertaken by some young artists with various physical and mental disabilities.

Docúpolis 2009 - Festival Internacional de Documental de Barcelona at l’Auditori del CCCB 
From 29/09/2009 to 04/10/2009
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) - Montalegre, 5 | Ciutat Vella District

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Digital Barcelona Film Festival

Digital Barcelona Film Festival  (DiBa) is the Festival that opens the cinema to the digital generation.
DiBa is more than just a film festival. Since its first edition, it has consolidated its position as the meeting point of the “Prosumers” generation and the place where you can make your own cinema, as well as seeing it.

Screenings: the latest audiovisual trends in a wide variety of cinematographic genres and formats such as: documentaries, animation, video clips, short films, etc.
Contests: be the main star with DiBa Express, the contest that challenges professional and amateurs to make a short film in 72 hours, or with DiBa Clip, the contest that proposes you to make a music video for one of the best musical groups of the moment.
Workshops: Check other ways of making films through the workshops DiBa Doc (documentary film) and DiBa Kids (cinema for and by children) in order to approach the digital creation.
Technology: DiBa is a meeting point of technology and creativity. We organize masterclasses, pro conferences and techrooms showing the latest digital technology innovations.

DiBa wants to see cinema, DiBa wants to make cinema!

More inf@: DiBa Felstival website

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