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Alberto Berzosa holds an European PhD in Art History and Theory. He works in the space where contemporary art, Film studies, political archives and curatorship intersect. He is the author of books such as Cine y sexopolítica (Brumaria, 2020), Homoherejías Fílmicas (Brumaria, 2014) and Cámara en mano contra el franquismo (Al Margen, 2009). He has also curated some exhibitions such as "Madrid Activismos 1968-1982" at La Casa Encendida or "Sexopolíticas del cine marginal. Years 70 and 80" at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. He is co-author of the film Memorias de Ultramar (2021). He is currently a member of the project "Aesthetics Fossil" of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC).

Alberto Berzosa publications

books
MATERIALS FOR AN ECOLOGICAL UTOPIA. MAPPING ARCHIVES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN SPAIN.

This book arose within the framework of the project ‘Fossil Aesthetics’, with the aim of mapping out the archives in Spain that contain documents for the recovery of the environmentalist memory, fundamentally materials from the visual culture produced by the environmentalist movement itself. During the production of the volume, general reflections emerged on the political...


articles
Militant cinema as an energetic alternative in the 1970s in Spain

    Article co-written by Alberto Berzosa and Jaime Vindel in The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), Volume 11, Issue 2, 2022. Access the publication information here.


Magazine Special Issue
Super 8 Against the Grain // Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine Nº 55

In the heart of the Cold War, the sixties were one of the moments of greatest colonial expansion, including in cultural terms, of the U.S.A. In 1965 the American company Eastman Kodak launched its “revolutionary super 8 film system” on the market. It was a technological package consisting of, among other devices, three camera models,...


articles
We Do the Rest. Super 8 in the Web of the Fossil Economy

This text provides a materialistic approach to the technology of Super 8 in the context of fossil modernity, developed in two parts. First, it focuses on the Super 8 as a tool that operates at three different levels of cultural and economic significance: the uneven relationship that arises between its production and distribution processes and...


articles
We Do the Rest. Super 8 in the Web of the Fossil Economy

This text provides a materialistic approach to the technology of Super 8 in the context of fossil modernity, developed in two parts. First, it focuses on the Super 8 as a tool that operates at three different levels of cultural and economic significance: the uneven relationship that arises between its production and distribution processes and...


EXILES AND COLONISTS IN THE FIRST PERSON: THE FAMILY ARCHIVE AND ITS RECENT (RE) WRITINGS IN SPAIN

“Exiles and Colonists in the First Person: The Family Archive and its Recent (re) Writings in Spain”, L’Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos, nº 34, pp. 21-39. Filmoteca Española has among its amateur film collections some very special collections in terms of mobility: films shot during the central decades of the 20th century in Republican exile...


books
Cine y Sexopolítica

This book is a hybrid device between essay, exhibition catalogue and archive. Through formulas typical of these three narrative registers, it deals with the study of Spanish cinematic sexopolitics. This marginal creative scene was characterised by a constant vital, political, sexual and audiovisual experimentation and was active in several cities in Spain during the political...


interventions
A Tale of Two Reservoirs. Cinema, memory and water

The films Os días afogados (2015), by César Souto Vilanova and Luis Avilés Baquero, and Urpean Lurra (2019), by Maddi Barber, propose atypical approaches to little-known episodes in contemporary Spain: the creation of reservoirs between the 1980s and 1990s in valleys that until then had been the lifeblood of entire communities. Both films construct their...


interventions
Santiago Vilanova and the double exception (1)

The militant cinema of Santiago Vilanova, best known for his work as a journalist and anti-nuclear activist, contributes to repairing some of the silences and veils present in the critical visualisations of the transition in Spain. This first post deals specifically with the interest aroused in his generation by the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. Appeared...


interventions
Santiago Vilanova and the double exception (2)

In this second article on Santiago Vilanova’s films, we present his work on the struggles that took place in a large part of Spain to try to stop the construction of nuclear power plants, mainly based on the commentary of his film El combat antinuclear (1977-1978). Appeared in Rinconete, 3 October 2019 ISSN: 1885-500 Click...


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