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Adriana V. Lopez

See Me, Hear Me, Federico Garcia Lorca
May 14, 2008

Don’t know what to do with those secret films starring or about the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca hidden away in your closets?  Well this may be your chance to finally do something culturally beneficial with them! In attempt to keep the memory of the great Spanish poet alive through the big screen, El Pais ran a story yesterday announcing that there would be a international search for audiovisual productions having to do with the life and work of the Granada born poet for the purposes of "archiving them for the cultural universe."

The Mar de Lunas project is being launched by the Granada City Council and the Federico García Lorca Board in collaboration with Andalucia’s Filmoteca and it aims at studying and recouping any moving images out there. The project will be launched this month in Granada with the debut of the 1938 Argentine film based on his play Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding). The film is being labeled the first cinematic version of a García Lorca work ever made. The tragic artist who was killed by Spanish Nationalists in 1936 was very into film, having written surrealistic styled screenplays such as El paseo de Buster Keaton or Viaje a la luna which he wrote during his stay in New York. Sadly, his texts were never completed in celluloid. For more on the poet’s adventures in screenwriting and film, check out Rafael Utrera’s book García Lorca y el cinema (García Lorca and the Cinema, Edisur, 1982).

Posted by Adriana V. Lopez on May 14, 2008 | Comments (0)