Agenda UV

The López Piñero Institute for the History of Medicine and Science (joint CSIC and University of Valencia), located in the Palau de Cerveró and the Cinema Club of the UVEG, present the cinematic series Ciència i Cultura en temps de Guerra (Science and Culture in wartime). The series complements the exhibition on the Valencian Institute of Studies which opens the same Thursday, 3 April, the day that the documentary short film Carles Salvador is screened. La llarga vida de les paraules (Script: Francesc Pérez Moragón and Nel•lo Pellisser. Direction: Josep Pitarch, 2011, 39 min.). On Tuesday 8 it will be screened the restored film by IVAC ¿Qué es España? (Luis Araquistáin, Cayetano Coll y Cuchí, 1926, 63 min.). And to close the series, on Thursday of that week, Las cajas españolas (Alberto Porlan, 2004, 90 min.) will be screened.

The screenings will take place on the stipulated days at 18:00 in the conference room of the Palau de Cerveró. Each session will feature a preview and a subsequent discussion by a representative of the Cinema Club and a person skilled in the art. The series deal with the link between research and artistic creation in the turbulent political context of the early 30s. The series consist of three documentary works, portraits of some of the most important people and moments in Spanish intellectual life of the early twentieth century as were the Free Teaching Institution, the protection of the Spanish artistic heritage during the Spanish Civil War or the biography of the Valencian Carles Salvador, Valencian culture banner.

In the first session Carles Salvador will be screened. La llarga vida de les paraules, a documentary about the famous Valencian poet figure, made from testimony and input from experts, philologists, family and even Salvador’s former students, both in his time as a rural teacher in Benassal, as in his years as a teacher in Benimaclet, where the writer is one of its most illustrious citizens. The film looks over his life chronologically and stops at the major intellectual achievements of Carles Salvador, while contextualizes his main contributions to the Valencian language and culture of the first half of the twentieth century.

On Tuesday 8, the series continue with the screening of the film ¿Qué es España?, reference document for understanding the modernization drive of Spain during the twenties and thirties, a privileged witness of the Silver Age of Spanish science, just like the innovation efforts undertaken by the Free Institution of Education .

The last session will be on Thursday 10 April when the film Las cajas españolas will be screened, a documentary that chronicles the process carried out by the republican government, through the creation of the Republican Artistic Treasure Board, to preserve works from the Prado Museum in Madrid during the siege in the Spanish Civil War. The film, which reconstructs the peculiar course of these works of art on a total of 1,868 cases, was awarded the Espiga de Plata (Silver Spike) for Best Documentary at the 49th International Film Festival of Valladolid.