Colectivo de Cine Polans
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Biography
Colectivo de cine Polans was an audiovisual group formed by journalist and filmmaker Carlos Aguirre, economist and photographer Jose Aguirre, and engineer and urban planner Ramón Fernández Durán. Friends since childhood, they decided to begin creating audiovisual works in 1976–1977, focusing on urban issues and social criticism. The protagonists of their creations were usually residents of suburban neighbourhoods who were trying to improve their living conditions or denounce their situation through actions in public spaces. Clandestinity was a fundamental part of the group, as Franco's apparatus of repression continued to operate against collectives dedicated to social criticism. That is why they never signed their works with their real names. The screenings were also held clandestinely, either in social centres or parishes in the neighbourhoods where the recordings had been made. Text taken from ‘La digitalizadora del cine colectivo’ (The digitiser of collective cinema).
Known For
Documentary that critically analyzes the communications system of the city of Madrid in the 1970s, from a socioeconomic and clearly political perspective, questioning the capitalist system and the city model imposed by it.
Transporte en Madrid o El caos como beneficio del capital
Documentary film about the situation in the Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas in the 1970s. This production by Colectivo de Cine Polans denounces the poor and precarious situation in Vallecas and, above all, the Madrid City Council's approval of a Partial Plan that would mean the expulsion of all the neighbourhood's residents, some 70,000 people. Extract La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva
Plan Parcial de Vallecas
Protest on 22 September 1977 in Madrid (Spain) against the attack carried out at the Barcelona headquarters of the satirical magazine El Papus (1973-1986) Text extracted from La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva (The Digitiser of Collective Memory)
Manifestación por el atentado en la sede de "El Papus"
Narrated report on the neighbourhood struggle in Madrid's suburbs against property speculation, focusing on two forms of protest: murals and banners. Text taken from: La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva
Murales y pancartas en barrios periféricos
Report narrated by a local resident about the conflict between residents of the Pilar neighbourhood and the construction of a shopping centre in the area known as La Vaguada by the French company La Henin in 1977. Text taken from La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva
La Vaguada es Nuestra
Festival of Popular Solidarity with Latin America, held on 12 October 1977 at the San Blas football ground (Madrid, Spain)