Three great titles in the history of cinema complete this year's edition, the seventh, of the 'Philosophy and Cinema' seminars, dedicated this time to the complex relationships between cinema and history: the cinema as a historical source of the contemporary world of the last two centuries; the so-called historical cinema, with his controversial, but always useful, didactic value; the cinema and its history, always under construction... The man who killed Liberty Valance, as well as a masterpiece by John Ford and classic cinema, it is a lucid reflection on the connections between Myth and History, one of the fundamental themes of the western, a genre that constitutes the founding narrative, between legend and reality, of the United States as a nation. For his part, Ingmar Bergman is going to build in The seventh seal a symbolic and existential story about the value of life and death, in one of the most faithful representations of the reality of the Middle Ages that cinema has offered. I, finally, Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein's masterpiece and one of the films that have most influenced subsequent cinema, and, at the same time, representation and engine of history, in being a revolutionary emblem and perfect crystallization of the language and conquests of the artistic avant-garde.
The 'Philosophy and Cinema' seminar is organized by the Torre del Virrey Instituto de Estudios Culturales Avanzados and includes a series of online conferences on each of the films in the cycle in the days following the screening. seminar program: www.latorredelvirrey.es
05.05.26 TUESDAY / 18.00 h
06.05.26 WEDNESDAY / 20.00 h
The seventh seal
The Seventh Seal
INGMAR BERGMAN. sweden. 1956. VOS SPANISH. B/N. 96′. DCP.
Int. Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bibi Andersson, Ake Fridell, Nils Poppe, No Gills.
A knight and his squire return from the Crusades to a plague-ravaged Sweden. On the way to his castle, the knight fights to anticipate death through a game of chess.
