Cultural events

Desire and Reality. Images and Words of the Poets 0f ´27

film screening

This documentary shows us the only images of Luis Cernuda and other young poets of his generation ever to be filmed. The films were shot in 1928 with a 9.5mm Pathé Baby amateur's camera by Juan Guerrero Ruiz,´Consul of Spanish Poetry´, in the words of Federico García Lorca,´a friend of savouring alien things´, according to Juan Ramón Jiménez, and founder of several literary magazines that supported the young poets of '27. It is a unique archive of films showing some of the members of said generation such as Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Melchor Fernández Almagro, Fernando Villalón, Manuel Altolaguirre, Rafael Alberti, Dámaso Alonso and Francisco García Lorca.