ETSAG's Laboratorio de cine y Arquitectura
LabCineArq was established in 2017, led by the current management of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada. With a transdisciplinary and experimental approach in which architecture and cinematography link their spatio-temporal representation devices.
Since its inception, the laboratory has placed special emphasis on film research into the architectural structures, materials, situations, semantics, projects and evolving configurations that make up the complex reality: urban and peri-urban, houses, buildings, their inhabitants and landscapes.
Fictional film narratives have been innovatively and decisively addressed in LabCineArq's theoretical and production workshops. Contemporary scripts and stories that make up, and sometimes depict more accurately than the documentary, the daily lives of people in places.
To date, the laboratory has been attended by architects, students and teaching staff of the ETSAG, but also by students from other faculties, psychologists, doctors, art historians, anthropologists and film buffs committed to the genuine avant-garde dimension of the seventh art.
The founder and faculty coordinator of the different shootings and workshops is the filmmaker Manuel Polls Pelaz. The laboratory is called La Capilla / Laboratorio de cine y arquitectura, and its acronym LabCineArq, representing its place of development, which is located in the rooms of the former chapel of the ETSAG, today a multifaceted space for expression, research and dissemination.
As of 2019, seven short films have been made at LabCineArq, six of which have already been released. This series represents a diverse palette of the thematic concerns of its authors. All these movies have a transcendental approach and a demanding aesthetic concern towards the structural keys of architecture in modern cinema.
