SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 14. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Espacio La Granja, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, opens this Monday ‘Memory Time, Memory in Time’, the title of the second cycle of cinema linked to cultural heritage organized by the Canarian Institute for Cultural Development (ICDC) through its Cultural Heritage Unit.
From May to December, five films will be screened at the Espacio La Granja, at the Guiniguada Theater in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and at Raíz del Pueblo in La Oliva (Fuerteventura) about different historical events of the 20th century that are part of the collective living memory .
The defense of cultural heritage contributes to the continuous appreciation of cultures; For this reason, the sessions scheduled under the hashtag #EresMemoriaViva aim to involve the public in the transmission of those experiences, customs, knowledge and events of the past that have shaped their identity.
The cycle will begin this Monday at 7:00 p.m. in the Espacio La Granja with the projection of the film ‘Stefan Zweig: Goodbye to Europe’; on Tuesday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m., it will be screened at the Guiniguada Theater; and on June 22 at 8:00 p.m. at the Raíz del Pueblo Association, in collaboration with the Casa de los Coroneles.
Tickets are available through the web pages of the spaces dependent on the Department of Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands for the price of 2 euros, with discounts for retired people, the unemployed and students.
On the occasion of Europe Day in the month of May, the session begins with the projection in VOSE of the biographical film ‘Stefan Zweig: Goodbye to Europe’ (2016) by María Shrander. The Austrian writer’s book ‘The World of Yesterday’ is the centerpiece of this biopic that narrates the last days of the author, a character who defended the living memory of Europe as one of the main strongholds of human strength against oblivion.
The documentary by the Canarian filmmaker Macu Machín ‘Mujeres en la isla: las otras hijas del Mestre’ (2022) will be screened at the Espacio La Granja on June 13, at the Guiniguada Theater on June 14 and at the Raíz del Pueblo Association July 27th. It is a film that, based on archive images, reviews the contribution of various women painters, writers and editors from the archipelago to make visible the role of female creation.
The cycle resumes in October with the screening of the film ‘Where memory ends’ (2021) directed by Pablo Romero to commemorate International Artist Day. On October 17, this documentary on Lorca, Buñuel and Dalí will be presented at the Espacio La Granja, on October 25 at the Guiniguada Theater and on November 2 at the Raíz del Pueblo Association. The film, in which Mike Dibb, Carlos Saura and Román Gubern collaborate, travels through various places in Spain to build the portrait of Ian Gibson, a literary detective who has dedicated his life to recovering the recent memory of the country through the biographies of these three historical figures
For World Heritage Day in November, a trip to the past of more than thirty thousand years is proposed with ‘The cave of forgotten dreams’ (2010) by Werner Herzog on VOSE. The documentary delves into the Chauvet cave in France with interviews with various archaeologists and personnel related to the site that was discovered in 1994. The Espacio La Granja hosts this screening on November 14, the Guiniguada Theater on November 15, and the Association Raíz del Pueblo on November 23.
Framed in the month of the International Day for the Commemoration and Dignification of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, the cycle will culminate in December with the film ‘Aurora*s Sunrise’ (2022), a moving story of survival of the Armenian genocide with the figure of the actress Arshaluys as the protagonist. Inna Sahakyan’s film can be viewed in VOSE on December 12 at the Espacio La Granja and on December 13 at the Guiniguada Theater.
