'Europa, futuro anterior' es un proyecto sobre imágenes resistentes. Imágenes de resistencia. Imágenes que se resisten a quedarse fijadas en el pasado. Imágenes en futuro anterior. Imágenes que, desde el pasado, participan en la figuración del presente. Proyecto de Pablo La Parra Pérez producido en el marco de la Residencia de Investigación Artística 2016.
The Europe, future past project explores transfers between the militant film archive and contemporary visual and artistic practices. It is no coincidence that, at the time of the current crisis, various artists, filmmakers and audiovisual collectives are transforming and rethinking the legacy of militant filmmaking practices of this period as a way of political intervention in the present reality.
We attend to the meeting and handling of the archive, the reuse of its devices of representation, the reinterpretation of its participatory modes of production, the appropriation, discussion or critical rejection of its strategies of politicising images. So, the legacy of the militant cinema of the Long Sixties is revealed as a fundamental source for understanding contemporary critical visual practices.
Europe, future past proposes reflecting on this trans-historical dialogue through a research project and a public programme of activities which will include the online publication of unpublished works by international artists, filmmakers and thinkers, a series of film screenings, an international symposium, and aparticipatory audiovisual workshop.
The project Europe, future past by Pablo La Parra Pérez has been produced within the 2016 Artistic Research Residency co-sponsored byTabakalera and Donostia-San Sebastian 2016, European Capital of Culture.
