If there is a filmmaker who embodies the reflective vocation of modernity, that is Chris Marker (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1921 - Paris, 2012). From the dialogue between texts of great evocative power and visual arts, Marker conceives image in multiple formats and registers, and forges an aesthetic journey that gravitates to what André Bazin called the ‘essay-film.’To Marker, images are the only plausible memory of time, and this incites a…
Activities
The CGAC's Activities and Pedagogical Department develops its programme with a primary goal: to bring art to society through the rigorous analysis of critical issues inherent in contemporary artistic activity.
Film seasons and conferences, workshops, seminars and concerts, make up the centre’s fundamental offer of activities, aiming to involve a wide range of audiences from the professional sector of the world of art and culture to an increasingly larger group of artists and fine art and history students, not to mention all those interested in the evolution of art and aesthetic reflection.
At the same time, the CGAC develops specific programmes for schools and colleges as well as guided tours, with the purpose of providing the various groups who come to the museum with the necessary tools to understand contemporary art and, from there, the world we live in.
If you would like to receive information on CGAC activities, you can request it by sending a message to the following email addresses:
13 May 2014 - 15 May 2014
This series consists of four documentaries whose purpose is to present the works of the writers Lois Pereiro, Valentín Paz Andrade, Roberto Vidal Bolaño and Xosé María Díaz Castro, who were featured in the latest editions of the Galician Literature Day. Gonzalo E. Veloso, director of the four films, presents this approach through a number of testimonies that cover the life and work of the writers, building, for each of them, a unique and…
10 April 2014 - 8 May 2014
The Iron Lady, emerging from the most unabashed reactionarism, is one of the most obscene acts of antipolitical cinema that we can recall. The hagiography of Margaret Thatcher, in its crude non-criticism which cannot be stressed enough, artfully transcends an entire generation of filmmakers who used the screen like a shield or a parapet from which to practice the self-defense of all those who felt violated by the conservative…
27 March 2014 - 3 April 2014
Remarkably, one of the most famous gags in the history of American and international comedy —perhaps the best punchline ever written— was at the expense of one of the biggest taboos of the twentieth century: transsexualism or, simply, transvestism.
13 January 2014 - 20 February 2014
The nine films of which the first 2014 CGAC cinema series is composed delve into twentieth century Italy.
8 November 2013 - 29 November 2013
One more time, the CGAC will be part of Cineuropa, the Santiago de Compostela film festival, which celebrates its 27th anniversary. The film screenings will be shown in the centre’s auditorium between 8th and 29th November. You can find all the information about screening hours and titles on the festival website.
28 June 2012
O auditorio do CGAC acollerá o vindeiro xoves, 28 de xuño ás 21 horas a proxección do filme documental N-VI de Pela del Álamo. A fita, producida por Diplodocus Producións, é un percorrido polos seiscentos quilómetros da estrada nacional que durante anos conectaron Galicia e Madrid.
16 November 2010 - 3 December 2010
COLABORACIÓN CON CINEUROPA 16 novembro - 3 decembro O CGAC acollerá en vindeiras semanas varias proxeccións de documentais sobre artistas plásticos portugueses e españois. O ciclo intégrase dentro da programación de Cineuropa, festival co que o centro volve colaborar nesta XXIV edición.As fitas seleccionadas son un total de dez e as súas proxeccións, con entrada de balde, terán lugar no Auditorio do CGAC, entre o martes 16 de novembro e o…
30 April The documentary reflects the work undertaken by the Danish group Efterklang in Piramida, near the North Pole, for the creation of their latest record. The director, Andreas Koefoed, followed the group members on their expedition to capture the sounds of the ghost town Piramida, an old mining settlement that became deserted at the end of the nineteen-nineties. Efterklang’s creative process intertwines with the experiences of Alexander…