Exhibition title: THE GREAT ILLUSION. THE CINEMA IN BADALONA 1898-1975
Exhibition time: from November 29th 2018 to February 17th (extended until May 12th)
Place: Museum of Badalona
Cinema arrived in Badalona in 1898 with street projections and by 1904 the city had already its first stable movie theater. Thus began the intense relationship between the seventh art and the people of Badalona.
This close link that runs through the exhibition The Great Illusion. The cinema in Badalona 1898-1975, that invites us to discover the history, the advances, the anecdotes, and the countless episodes of shared memory that are hidden in the darkness of a cinema room.
The exhibition is structured in different thematic sections that combine local aspects, such as showrooms, programming or critics, with more general aspects such as technological evolution, the phenomenon of the star-system or the impact that the omnipresent censorship had on the cinematographic production in the Franco’s Spain.
The exhibition, which is completed by the publication of a book of the same title by the historian Núria Casals, is also a tribute to the cinema and to all those people who, in difficult times, they were able to find a window into the world and a way out of everyday life.
The show is about to begin! The lights turn off. Silence.
Exhibition credits
PRODUCTION: Museum of Badalona
DIRECTION: Margarida Abras Pou
COORDINATION: Francesca García Almagro
RESEARCH: Núria Casals
SCREENPLAY AND TEXTS: Margarida Abras and Núria Casals
EXHIBITION DESIGN: Francesca García Almagro
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Albert Navarro
IMAGE PROCESSING: Albert Navarro, Pere Ruzafa, Lluís Andú
ASSEMBLY: Francisco Ruíz, Jamal Bissane
BROADCAST: Núria Sadurní, Esther Espejo
DIGITAL REPRODUCTION: Francesca Mateo
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Salvador Alsina, M. Dolors Binué, Jordi Domingo, Valentina Garcia, Esther Gurri, Miquel Font, Coloma Lleal, Isabel and Lluís Marquina, M. del Mar Mascareñas, Enrici Puig Salsas, Josep M. Sabater, Joan Salla, M. Rosa Salsas, Jordi Sapé, Camilo and Jaume Tarrazón
