Monthly program where we will invite directors to tell us about their work processes.
The Tabakalera cinema is also a classroom, we have said this many times. We have a film school (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola) and many of its classes happen on the shared screen, whether through presentations, guests, talks to contextualize the screenings or meetings with the public. The rest of the screen partners also accompany their screenings with presentations, round tables and debates.
This crossing between orality, images, and presences on and off the screen is something that happens from the beginning in a very natural way. We therefore affirm that in our room we not only show films, but we also talk about films, what cinema is, how it is made, its historical and cultural context, what is in front of and behind its images and sounds.
In January 2020 we launched the SPOKEN CINEMA seasons, an invitation to directors to tell us about their work processes. It is about sharing decisions, folders on their hard drives, and materials that are almost never seen collectively but that make up the B side of their work: casting tests, camera tests, script versions, editing versions, deleted scenes, doubts about the process, influences, casting decisions, writing treatments, etc.
It is about sharing these processes with the public in master class mode. It is something as simple as talking about cinema in the movie theater, adding the oral story to the images to better understand the creation processes.