Exhibition
1000 Images
50 years of the San Sebastian Film Festival (1953-2002)
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival presents the exhibition 1000 Images at the CCCB to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its creation.
The festival presents a broad-based selection (the 1000 images referred to in the title of the exhibition, and more) of the images that make up the Festival's memory, with a view to making a cinematographic, political and sentimental journey around its history.
But 1000 Images not only documents the history of the Festival, it also takes a look at the history of the cinema in the second half of the twentieth century, also forming a curious social and cultural chronicle of our country.
The visitor will discover photographs of a period in which the stars on celluloid could still enjoy a degree of anonymity. The exhibition includes images of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Liz Taylor, Luis Buñuel, Peter Sellers and Imanol Uribe, among others.
The exhibition, curated by Diego Galán, ex-director of the Festival, presents a montage of drawers, doors, chinks and holes that allow visitors, whether or not they are film-lovers, to discover these cinematographic memories that range from curiosity to obsession.
1000 images has been presented in San Sebastian, Madrid and Seville and is sponsored by the Fundación Altadis, Kutxa, Egeda and Canal +.
Curators: Diego Galán
