Cinema and art go hand in hand at the Prado Museum

The Prado Museum, in collaboration with the Film Academy Foundation, organizes 'Cinema with art seen by its creators', a sample of eight Spanish films that show the diversity of treatments and themes of this 'art cinema'.

On the occasion of the celebration of its bicentennial, the Prado Museum, in collaboration with the Film Academy Foundation, has organized Cinema with art seen by its creators, a sample of eight Spanish films that show the diversity of treatments and themes of this 'art cinema'.

Aimed at offering a different perspective on how cinema has addressed the concrete reality of museums and art in general, this cycle seeks to capture the creation process, capture the very practice of artistic genius, with its successes and uncertainties, and show how art involves life.

Goya's ghosts, by Milos Forman –July 5–; Esquilache, by Josefina Molina –day 6-; Don Juan in hell, by Gonzalo Suárez -day 10-; and I give you my eyes, by Iciar Bollain –July 11–, are some of the selected titles that show how art, in its multiple facets, affects the action in some way and from different places.

The cycle is completed with productions directed by Luis Deltell and M.Álvarez-Fernández, I will not write art with capital letters –July 12–; Pedro Almodóvar, The skin I live in –day 13–; Fernando Colomo, The Picasso gang –July 17–; and Fernando Trueba, The artist and the model –July 18–. All showings are at 7:30 p.m.

Prior to their screening, the films will be presented on video by some of the filmmakers who participated in them with the purpose of disseminating the sensitivity of Spanish cinema towards the art, culture and history of our country.