Interval 12. Guernica Sequences. The Mural in Documentary Essay Films

The Spanish Civil War is viewed as the first great war of images, whereby photography, film and graphic art materialised in various formats — war reportage, newsreels, illustrated magazines, urban posters — and, internationally, sought to persuade and mobilise foreign public opinion. Picasso did not remain cut off from such a media ‘bombardment’. Setting out from this context, the Museo Reina Sofía will screen four films, shot between 1949 and 2012, which explore the relationship Guernica bears with documentary essay films