Informe general II. El nuevo rapto de Europa
It’s almost forty years since Portabella made Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública. Spain was slowly coming out of three and a half decades of fascist dictatorship, and Portabella was there with his camera observing, but not merely as an observer. It’s also an essay on the idiom(s) of politics and cinema, as he deemed some of the politics desirable.
Today in Spain, neoliberalist capitalism has laid waste to the middle class, unemployment is skyrocketing, the Left is a factious mess that the Right plays with ease, trust in democracy is at a new low. Is it necessary to look for other forms of participatory processes?
General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe doesn’t try to offer an answer. Portabella weaves a tapestry of options through which ideas can get discussed, arranging them so that their strengths and weaknesses can be considered. In short, he creates a cinematic symposium in which the audience is the essential final participant.
Film details
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 126"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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