Exhibitions
DART International Film and Art Festival where cinema opens a window to art
The ninth edition reaffirms DART as a bridge between artistic creation and documentary, connecting cinema, art and heritage with a contemporary perspective.
The DART International Film and Art Festival has established itself as an essential event for art and documentary lovers. Born in Barcelona, the event stands out for offering a profound and accessible look at the world of visual arts through the language of cinema. Its programming —with bonart as an associated medium— brings together films that explore the lives and work of artists, creative movements, work processes, exhibitions, architectural projects and contemporary cultural phenomena.
From December 10 to 14, the festival celebrates its ninth edition articulating three essential axes: cinema, art and heritage. DART thus reaffirms its commitment to a genre still little present in the city's festivals: cinema dedicated to contemporary art. The mission of the event is to give visibility to the work of filmmakers and strengthen the documentary industry, stimulating research and creativity in this area.
The festival proposes new ways of experiencing and approaching art beyond conventional spaces, while at the same time reflecting on the aesthetic and intellectual role of artistic creation in today's society. The program will open with ASCO: Without Permission, a portrait of the Chicano art collective, and will continue with documentaries dedicated to figures such as Warhol, Art Spiegelman, Peter Hujar or Simone Forti, as well as pieces that address contemporary cultural movements and projects.
Among the most outstanding titles we find Alreadymade, Miralles, The Infinite Happiness, Balomania, Maintenance Artist, The Sleeper: El Caravaggio Perdido, Minted or Barking in the Dark, many of them presented with Q&A sessions or meetings with their creative teams. Also noteworthy are films focused on memory, heritage and critical perspective, such as LOOT: A Story of Crime and Redemption , Radical Women or Autocthonies des Amériques .
DART completes its proposal with the free DART LAB program, which incorporates talks on art and climate, special screenings and a professional symposium on art, cinema and heritage at Casa Vicens. The LAB will also take the public to spaces such as Espai 13 of the Miró Foundation or the MACBA —within the Acció-Cinema framework— with titles such as Autochtonies des Amériques or Climate Art. The symposium will bring together institutions such as the Festival du Film sur l'Art de Montréal, the MACBA or NOWNESS to reflect on the role of audiovisual in the creation of artistic imaginaries and in new forms of dissemination of cinema about art.
Far from a strictly academic or museum approach, DART offers a lively, emotional and profound approach to artistic creation. The selected films allow the public to enter the artists' workshops, learn about the challenges of the creative process and understand the social context that shapes the works. A festival that turns cinema into a bridge and revelation, and that reaffirms its vocation of thinking and showing art as an organism in constant transformation.
