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The late Barcelona Film Festival and the Manifesto for a more pure cinema.

Film Festival Barcelona - Barcelona Manifesto
Catalonia Ramblas - Together Diputación de Barcelona

Dragon that Gaudi designed at the gate to the Guell Pavilions , was the inspiration for the logo of the festival.

end of the 80 Barcelona start the conclusion of an annual international film festival , image and likeness of those who saw Cannes, Venice and San Sebastian . The city struggled to recover the years lost during the and Franco tried projected worldwide as a cultural landmark and tourist. They lived the eve of the Barcelona Olympics.

The project did not work neither commercial nor economic and Cinema Festival in Barcelona just disappear after a few years after a long crisis and numerous changes in its format. The dream of seeing parade down the red carpet Hollywood stars vanished altogether. However that gave the city an opportunity to focus on attracting more minor commercial cinema l, perhaps more minor, but more quality. Thus Barcelona has now become home to numerous independent film festivals, documentary or experimental as DiBa (digital cinema) the Docupolis ( documentary ) l'Alternativa (Independent Film) In the - Edit Beefeater (documentary film) or FCJ (Jewish Film)

failed from that experience was the Festival of Cinema of Barcelona is hard to find tracks or even in internet . But e n the floor of Rambla Catalunya we can find a plaque in memory of an initiative called "Manifest of Barcelona" closely linked to the event.



The Manifest of Barcelona was a well-intentioned idea as utopian born within the first Festival of Cinema . It was a manifesto signed by prominent people in the world of film, which requested that the films were released in theaters as they were made by their authors, without censorship, without cuts, unchanged. The Manifest just as forgotten as the festival itself at birth. The film industry was not even that for non-business romanticism.

The Festival is in its early development issues around theaters Rambla Catalunya as "The Alcazar " Savoy "or" Alexandra " On 19 July 1987, the date of the opening ceremony, was placed on the floor of the Rambla de Catalunya , a few steps from the headquarters of the council, plate that read the Catalan and English:

"Manifesto of Barcelona - We as filmmakers, we demand as a moral right, that our films reach the viewer as they were originally conceived"


advertising at the time said that if further Hitchcock living also would have joined the Manifesto. We shall never know, but we do know is that in the list of 700 other signatories had characters as popular as Woody Allen , Pedro Almodovar , Paul Newman , Bernardo Bertolucci , Brian of palm or Roman Polanski .

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A mammoth in Barcelona in the Parc de la Ciutadella.

the Mammoth Ciutadella (1906)
the Cascade Plaza in the Park Ciutadella . Author of
model: Miquel Dalmau

Norbert Font i Sague. Photo extracted from http://espeleovirtual.blogspot.com/2008/08/norbert-font-i-sague.html

Our next character is the Barcelona Norbert Font and Sagué ( 1874-1910) a prominent geologist and naturalist and pioneer in Spain of caving , the science that studies and investigates the caves and caverns. Font Mosen was also a member of the board of municipal museums and writer.

Norbert Font part of the Board of Natural Sciences of Barcelona from the beginning to the end which international exhibition of 1888, a cultural project that would fun to decorate the park with figures Ciutadella scale stone animals and dinosaurs that once populated Catalunya.


The first and only cloned animal was placed in 1906 Mamut spectacular. The death of Norbert Font in 1910 halted the project for good. The mammoth concrete restored during the mayoral Narcis Serra, measured over three meters and is located just a few meters from the cascade Ciutadella, which has become a must for children and adults.

The model of a Diplodocus that would be the next sculpture to be installed, as well as eleven other prehistoric dinosaurs failed project can be seen in the museum of geology.

As a curiosity that there is a library much like the idea unrealized Font around the Museum of Natural History in Paris in the park known as Jardin des Plantes, and not missing his own mammoth.

Paris Mammoth

At the initiative of Norbert collaborated Font two other prominent naturalists and geologists of the time. We talked about Jaume Almera and Artur Bofill, great scholars of indigenous animal species, who came to be present in some of the best conferences of geology in Europe.

The trail of three men in the city, is still visible. Norbert Font i Sagué has dedicated a square in the district of Sant Marti, also a prize caving to his name. Jaume Almera in turn gives its name to a street in the neighborhood of Horta and a research center under the CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Research) counterbore Sciences Institute Earth Jaume Almera . Artur Bofill has no dedication on the street of the city, but gave way to the municipal museums much of his collection mollusc fossils and minerals that are preserved and exposed for all to enjoy.

Font The idea is visible in Paris

Jaume Almera, was also a theologian, the image will be seen playing a shell.

Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera - CSIC

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Old political posters in the station of Hospital Clinic.

Metro Station Hospital - Blue Line.
Calle Rossello , corner Calle Villarroel



Some of the oldest subway stations and busy in the Barcelona metro network will be refurbished in the coming months . These works aim to comprehensively modernize and adapt to people with disabilities so that they are fully accessible to all audiences.



One of these stations will be the Hospital Clinic , located between the streets Villarroel and Count of Urgell , a few meters from the historic Hospital is one of the stops more users get in line. These days have begun preparations for the renovation cleaning the walls and torn from them information panels and advertising.

in the gap left by some of those panels have appeared political posters that were engaged there for over thirty years and recall the fascinating years of democratic transition.


Although hard hit by the time, there posters of the missing left-wing organization Red Flag.

Born in the 70's, this organization Maoist communist ideology was very active during the final years of Franco and the beginning of the transition. The party that proclaimed a socialist state and federal came from a small group of historical PSUC and had an enormous influence on the academic and intellectual time, which attracted such disparate militant each other as the political future Jordi Sole Tura i (father of the Constitution) Josep Pique ( ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs) Emilio Perez Touriño ( former president Xunta of Galicia ) Pilar del Castillo ( Ex-Minister Culture) or journalists as different as Federico Jimenez Losantos (Cope and EsRadio ) Joan Barril (Tv 3, El Periodico ) Enric Canals ( former director TV 3) or Xavier Vidal (El Pais )

The Communist Party fleeting Workers (1973-1980) appears on another poster calling for abstention in the referendum face the English Constitution of 1978 by consider monarchy, capitalist and centralized. Look if you spent time that the Constitution did not want this game last year celebrated his thirty years of life.

The underground hide many stories, and this reminds us that there was a time when its walls were covered with political posters at a time when the country woke up after forty years of dictatorship.

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José Antonio "Present" at the Cathedral of Barcelona.

" José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Present" (1939-1997)
Santa Lucia Street, next to Cathedral.



On 20 November 1936, during the civil war, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, leader English fascism, was shot in the courtyard of the provincial jail Alicante. His death which some historians could prevent Franco-with which it had a good relationship, "helped the dictator to pave the way to absolute power in the national side and distortion of the English Falange which became little more than a Franco party puppet.

After the war, the figure of José Antonio was idealized and mythologized. Was used as a symbol in the new Spain Franco. His name appeared on every street in the country, were devoted plazas, avenues and streets, also numerous monuments. His portrait next to Franco appeared on all official buildings and schools almost no church in which they do not see your name on the wall next to other civil war dead.

L Barcelona Cathedral was no exception, on the wall overlooking the Santa Lucia street with red letters signed "José Antonio Primo de Rivera - Present with a large cross. In this place every November 20 and for nearly forty years was done by the Barcelona Falangism a wreath that was followed by a Mass in honor of the deceased leader of the disappeared and other party.


After the death of Franco and democracy, as the wall continued until it began to be attacked with paint cans and sprays . in 1997 and to mark the royal wedding between Iñaki Urdangarin and the Infanta Cristina, the cathedral underwent a thorough makeover and the memory was erased Falange.

Today, surrounded by old paint stains can read the traces left by the letters on the wall of the cathedral.

Playing sign at the Barcelona History Museum

Barcelona had two urban memories on the one hand the present Gran Via de les Corts Catalan converted Primo de Rivera Avenue until 1976 and a monument that survived until 2009 at the confluence Tarradellas Avenue and Avenue of Sarria today is only a small reservoir and I wrote the following entry in
http://larosadefuego.blogspot.com/2009/02/ultimos-dias-del-polemico-monumento.html