Plec #1

Plec is a cycle of projections that aims to be a meeting space around and through cinema. The name refers to the action of folding, a simple maneuver without great pretensions, which, once completed, can turn everything upside down: it is not the material that transforms, but rather its way of relating to the world.

We can watch the films alone, but it’s better if we watch them together.

This project welcomes the work of filmmakers, artists, and researchers who explore all kinds of formats, both analog and digital, to offer a context for sharing and reflecting on images outside institutional circuits.

The projections will take place one Friday a month at L’Automàtica.

Among all the things we might have in common, there are two quite likely ones: having recorded a sunset at some point and having photographed the full moon, reduced to a tiny and frustrating point of light in the middle of the mobile screen.

This obstinate gaze towards the star and the satellite, historically traversed by sighs, promises, pleas, and sacrifices, has unfolded an infinite number of questions with more or less satisfactory answers. Just as it has found solace in an extremely extensive literary and pictorial body, cinema has also reached out a hand to measure our desire.

We dedicate the first session of Plec to the sun and the moon, to this persistent gaze towards the sky and to the remote and insatiable impulse to capture them.