Official publication of this year's leitmotif, dedicated to cinema and counterculture on the occasion of the celebration of the 40th edition of the Festival
It will be presented on Friday, October 30, at 6:00 p.m., at the Ca n'Ametller exhibition hall in Molins de Rei.
Coordinated by Javier Rueda, with the help of Glòria Massana and Omar Parra, and designed by Joan Jarque, it revisits some of the most groundbreaking Spanish works and authors of the seventies, as well as the social context that led to the birth of the Festival in 1973. It does so through the texts, illustrations, hobbies and occurrences of Manel Calpe, Patricia Clapés-Saga, Carles Martínez Agenjo, Gerard Fossas Noguera, Sandra S. Lopera, Manu Guayre, Jaume Claver, Joan Domènech, Albert Galera, Silvia García Palacios, David Izquierdo, Luis E. Herrero, Antonio José Navarro, Josep Luzán, David Pizarro, Jimmy (Bego del Teso), Josemi Beltrán, Gonzalo López, Quim Crusellas, Clara Roca, MonteCarlo, Alfred Bofill, Jaume Montmany and Josep Bergadà.
Because it's 40 editions, yes, but also 48 years. That's why the fanzine looks back, to those times that gave rise to the oldest horror film marathon in the state, the embryo of the festival that we enjoy today. They were years of counterculture, a term that defines both a sociological movement with actions and values that contrast with those of the established norm, as well as a Spanish historical period between 1968 and 1978, with ramifications until the early eighties. An era and movements, also an attitude one could say, that found - and will always find - in horror cinema a genre where they could go one step further, breaking the barriers of what can be shown and explained.
Without the desire to collect all the rich idiosyncrasy of those moments, unfathomable in a single publication, the fanzine proposes a journey through time through very different proposals, always maintaining a demanding and passionately cinephile spirit. It is also a tribute to that spirit of exploration and search for new airs. Of breaking with everything that is imposed. Of generating meeting spaces from an associative and community perspective To this society that pushed towards modernity To that renewed cinema that embodied injustices and deficiencies, also fears and anxieties, of a world that screamed and continues to scream. To all those people who were part of it. Because remembering history can be an act of learning and inspiration, but also of vindication and resistance.
