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Cartagena will celebrate on 2 consecutive days the 2nd Amateur Film Day, on November 21, and the IV Domestic Film Day, on November 22, within the programming of the Cartagena International Film Festival FICC46.
This is two days to recover and bring to light audiovisual archives of great historical value, "being direct visual sources of the history of Cartagena", highlighted in the presentation of these two days the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez, who has appeared together with the person in charge of the project Cellular Memories, Salvador Vivancos, and the representative of the FICC, Sergio Martínez.
Both days they are looking for the owners of super8, 8mm, 16mm and 9.5mm films that were made over the past century, take them out of the drawers to be able to restore them to the reach of all citizens.
"It is important that we all know and can access these works, not only because of their artistic value, but because of their historical value as a source for research on the city," said the councilor.
These films are scattered among their owners or heirs, which hinders their visibility, and run the risk of being lost due to the natural deterioration of this film material, he warned.
II AMATEUR FILM DAY
The Amateur Film Day is a project that was born last year to make visible and recover the history of a movement that was born in the 50s throughout Spain, where fans of photography and cinema came together to exchange knowledge and present their works.
In Cartagena came the Asociación Fotográfica de Cartagena AFOCAR, of which the Griffith Group emerged as a film, which, together with other amateur filmmakers, produced around 150 films, in different formats, including fictions, documentaries and animations.
An amateur film contest was even created at the national level in 1968, which was in use until the 1980s. A large film fund in small format by "filmmakers" from Cartagena, as they liked to call themselves, which had been forgotten, has commented Sergio Martínez, and that "it is necessary that we can all enjoy them, and investigate them", as part of the history of the city.
This year the Amateur Film Day will be dedicated to a member of this group, Juan Peñalver, thanks to the collaboration of Alfonso Santos.
On Tuesday, November 21, at 6:00 p.m., several documentaries by this author will be screened at Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, which will include historical aspects of the city.
It is scheduled the screening of 4 short documentaries: "Vestiges of an era", which documents the archaeological heritage of Cartagena in the 70s;
"Fuentes y jardines de Cartagena", in which images and information of these infrastructures are collected;
"El molinete", an archive that is an opportunity to get to know this neighborhood that has already disappeared;
and "The old mill", from the year 1972, in which already at that time the recovery of the mills of Campo de Cartagena is claimed.
At the end of the screening, around 7:00 pm, there will be a round table in which experts in history and heritage of the city will participate as the coordinator of Historical and Archaeological Heritage of the City of Cartagena, M. Carmen Berrocal, the President of the Rural Field League of Cartagena, Pedro Esteban and the architect and researcher of the architecture of the district of Molinete, Pedro Debesa.
IV DAY OF DOMESTIC CINEMA
On the occasion of the Day of the Domestic Movie or Home Movie Day, created in the United States in the year 2002, in the Municipal Archive of Cartagena are collecting all those recordings that the citizens take to be inspected and prepared for their digitalization by a project team .
The collection schedule for the recordings is from Monday to Friday between 9:00 and 13:45 and also on Tuesdays from 5:00 to 7:45.
A project fruit of the collaboration between the collective Memories Celluloids, the Municipal Archive and the Department of Culture.
Project technicians, led by Salvador Vivancos, will collect the films, identifying them with the data of the owner and then inspect, clean and, if necessary, restore them to make sure they are able to be projected.
"Films that normally show the lives of others, but that are also the story of our lives," said Vivancos.
On November 22 between 10:00 and 13:45 in the same facilities of the Archive there will be a working session open to the public to which anyone with their films can attend, or anyone interested in the method of work used to project, preserve and digitize these files.
That same day in the afternoon, within the programming of FICC_46, at the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo Foundation from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. there will be a screening with a selection of family films received in the call.
Other family films from Cartagena of the Memo Archive will also be screened.
After the projections of the Day of the Domestic Cinema, they will be returned to their owners or they can be collected in the Municipal Archives as of Monday, December 4, at their usual time.
The project Cellular Memories also offers the possibility of digitizing movies, citizens who request this service will be notified when it is ready.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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