Cinema and course is a cinematographic pedagogy program in public schools and institutes that has become an international reference and which includes many of the most relevant authors of recent years: Carla Simon, Xacio Bathroom, Jaione Camborda, Meritxell Colell, Mikel Gurrea, Jaume Claret Muxart…
the project, that every year succeeds in awakening the love for cinema in children and young people by introducing them to its creative processes, turned twenty years old in 2025. The Valencian Film Archive, along with Catalan and Galician, has been celebrating since last October with a cycle in which several filmmakers linked to "Cinema en curs" share with the viewers of La Filmoteca reflections on films and authors that transformed them and on their own creative processes. We have been accompanied so far by Isaki Lacuesta, Celia Rico, Jonás Trueba and Jaume Claret Muxart.
He 12 of February, coinciding with the theatrical release of his new feature film, Stories of the good valley, José Luis Guerin offers us a unique journey through films and filmmakers that for him - and also for 'Cinema en curs' - are essential travel companions in the creative processes and in the ways of looking, live and love the world. The session closes with the last correspondences, hitherto unpublished, between Guerin and Jonas Mekas.
12.02.26 THURSDAY / 18.00 H Films commented by José Luis Guerin accompanied by Núria Aidelman, co-director of Cinema in progress.
essentials: José Luis Guerin in dialogue with Lumière, Fischinger i Mekas
AUGUST I LOUIS LUMIÈRE: Place des Cordeliers (1’), La Canebière (1’), Baby's first steps (1’) > © Institut Lumière
CINEMA AND COURSE: Minutes of Light and Plans of the World filmed by children and young people between 2005 i 2025
OSKAR FISCHINGER: Munich-Berlin hike (1927, 4’)
JOHN MEK: Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2003, 15’)
JONAS MEKAS – JOSÉ LUIS GUERIN: Latest correspondences (2016, 12’)
José Luis Guerin is a filmmaker-spectator, a cinephile for whom the authors he admires are traveling companions and teachers: "My experience of cinema is inseparable from my experience as a spectator, I don't know another one. I didn't go to film school, so the halls have been my only school and it's the only thing I know". In this exceptional session he talks to August and Louis Lumière, Oskar Fischinger in Jonas Mekas, he discovers little-known gems for us, and even shares the last two letters between him and Mekas, hitherto unpublished. The same thread runs through the collected films: a way of understanding cinema as a mode of knowledge and relationship with the world, and a commitment to the gesture of filming as a celebration of life.
