Transmissions: musical documentary in its purest form

Cineteca (Madrid) hosts this event for the first time with four days of screenings and live performances.

Transmissions It is an annual event that combines the screening of documentaries, short films and musical features with discussions, concerts and DJ sessions.

With only two editions under its belt, the festival has managed to establish itself as a benchmark event on the national scene, which is now coming to Cineteca for the first time. Transmissions is both a space for viewing new musical documentary proposals and a meeting point between the public, the industry and artists.

In the past two years, Transmissions has screened, for the first time in Spain, musical documentaries of very diverse styles and attracted internationally relevant personalities such as Marky Ramone, Wendy James (Transvision Vamp), Dunstan Bruce (Chumbawamba), Jacqueline Caux, David Mingay and national artists such as Ana Curra, Silvia Superstar or the movida photographer Alberto García Alix.

The Madrid competition will consist of four days of screenings at Cineteca as well as a series of performances at La Cantina, at the end of the screenings.

Programming

The festival starts on Wednesday the 25th with a day dedicated to young filmmakers. 3 short and medium-length films will be shown with a single entry to the 3 screenings for only three euros. The first of them, Spanish Hammond Organ Summit, is dedicated to the first meeting held last year in Madrid to honor the legendary Hammond instrument and will feature the presence of its director Nacho Ochoa in its presentation. Next, All Fruits Ripe, by Catalan Daniel Vallés, will be screened on the Reagge scene and Catalan soundsystems and, finally, Sounds of Sai by Marcia Juzga, a journey through Colombian folklore through the history of the music of the Colombian island of San Andrés.

At the end of the screenings, the artist Carnisaur will offer an acoustic concert with his guitar at La Cantina.

On Thursday the 26th you can see Kokomih, a journey to the origins of music and its spiritual dimension in Dogon, Mali (with the presence of its directors Pierre Genet and Oriol Casals) and A Curious Life, by the British Dunstan Bruce, about The Levellers, one of the symbols of English alternative rock, told through their bassist Jeremy Cunningham.

Friday is one of the highlights of the festival and is dedicated in its first two screenings to the figure of the legendary Jhonny Thunders with the screening of the anthological concert Dead or alive, Jhonny Thunders and the Heartbreakers live at the Lyceum and, in the second pass, Danny García will present for the first time in Spain, fresh from a successful tour of the US and Europe, Looking for Jhonny based on the figure of the artist. In the third pass, Alex Montes, along with Pei, the drummer of Desechables, will present The worst God, about the great cursed band of the 80s. Immediately afterwards, Ana Curra, the member of Pálisis Permanente, an icon of Madrid rock and punk, will offer a musical selection in the cantina with her DJ set.

Finally, on Saturday there will be a screening Nitsa 94/96: the electronic twist, about the legendary Barcelona club and the beginning of the Barcelona electronic scene and What difference does it make? the Red Bull Music Academy documentary about the creation of music with the participation of artists such as Nile Rodgers, Erykah Badu, Deborah Harry, Brian Eno…