It has already harvested two major awards by winning the Oscar for best documentary and being voted the best U.S. documentary by the audience at the Sundance Film Festival. No doubt this is a risky film. Its development lies in its structure, following a pattern typical of a thriller, taking apart piece by piece a macabre scenario that has pitted Japan versus the world’s public opinion. The Cove unveils a “theme park” that, in reality, is used as a farm to regularly slaughter whales and sell their meat on the market. In the morning, dolphins receive herring and applause, while at night, bullets dye the sea red and animals are butchered in a gloomy cave that lends its name to the documentary.

Jordi Montaner | 16 june 2010

Today, June 1, at 21:30 the 17th edition of Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA) gets under way at Cines Alexandra. This year, for the first time, programming will also be available on the website of the festival, which lasts until June 6.

1 june 2010

“Antarctica: the Continent for Science” is the title of the televised report about the ongoing research into the world’s remotest continent scheduled to be broadcast during this week’s episode of “Crónicas” on Televsión Española. The team led by researcher Conxita Avila of the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Barcelona (UB) participated in the making of the program. From the Spanish base Gabriel de Castilla located on Deception Island in the South Shetland archipelago, experts Sergi Taboada of the UB and Javier Cristobo of the Gijón Oceanographic Center explain the objectives of the ACTIQUIM Project, led by Avila. The ACTIQUIM Projects forms part of the Spain’s National Biodiversity, Earth Sciences and Global Change Program.

12 may 2010

Carlos Montes, Professor of Ecology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) uses this movie and the book it is based on as talismans to explain climate change to his students. What a task. The dissection of your favorite pet in the university laboratory seems to be unbearably cruel. The film is harsh, unsettling and disturbing. The book it is based on is devastating. Since the film is no longer on in cinemas, you will have to catch it on DVD. But in any case, it is highly recommended to have gone through the experience of the Pulitzer-prize novel, translated into numerous languages, before taking in the film version.

Jordi Montaner | 10 may 2010

The Media Art Space CaixaForum within the Media Library Channel, provides an electronic cinema season from the 25th of February until the 3rd of April 2010. The program represents a new generation of artists working together and with digital and image techniques to create refreshing and surprising short Films which also highlights the music of its original soundtracks.

24 March 2010

Next Friday 19th March from 15.30 to 21.00 h, in collaboration with MECAL (International Short Film Festival of Barcelona) CosmoCaixa presents a journey around two major axes: the short film and the environment. This interdisciplinary pretext serves as a starting point for different activities that explore the relationship between the audiovisual and greener themes.

15 march 2010

The Obra Social Caixa Sabadell is organizing the film series "From biometrics to fiction", a selection of films where biometrics plays an important role, either because one will be able to see biometric recognition techniques, or because the argument will raise the ethical problems that its application has. In any case, the cycle is an excellent opportunity to become familiar with technologies that are already players in our daily lives.

4 March 2010

Kopèrnik is a weekly half-hour program released on several local television stations within Catalonia. Its contents address issues around the world of science and research, from explanations of basic concepts and phenomena to reports of current research projects.

2 March 2010

A flawless documentary, that hardly reaps rewards or awards for its audacity and poignancy. Of exquisite invoicing technique (it undertakes a hard theme, whilst managing to keep the viewer in tension throughout its structure), The World According to Monsanto stems from the basic principle of every documentary project: revelation. Nothing we have heard about the nature of the agricultural products we eat resembles not even by surprise what this documentary exposes...

1 March 2010

Here was the chicken before the egg ... The Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles surprised just a year ago by adapted to the big screen Essay about blindness by Jose Saramago. It was a raw and uncompromising recreation of Plato's cave, transferred to our society, showing that what we are is not determined by what we see; but rather the reverse.What would everything be like if we could not see anything? Saramago set a pattern in his novel; but two co-workers of Meirelles, João Jardim (Fitter) and Walter Carvalho (Photographer), asked themselves this same question seven years before filming Blindness and with the precise intention of giving an answer, or at least, rate a reflection...

24 February 2010

Misery challenges all sorts of progress and dodges the best intentions. In America-the America of Barack Hussein Obama, the dream of a pluralistic social security, universal, and political action aimed at alleviating the suffering of the poor, is unable to move beyond his statement. In 2010, north of Manhattan, New York, scenes are reproduced tat in the twenty-first Century one would only imagine in remote areas of Africa, unrelated to any kind of development and without any hint of morality...

22 February 2010

This program from the Short histories of cinema (MACBA) program explores the vision of science through the eyes of audiovisual artists while also showing some elements of scientific work or popular science that, independent of their original intention, are attractive in the creative context.

19 February 2010

"To travel within the cell without traffic jams or accidents" is the name of the conference which opens the cycle for all audiences "Simple Science" organized by the Centre for Genomic Regulation. The talk will be held by Vivek Malhotra, program coordinator of Cell and Developmental Biology at the CRG, tomorrow, Tuesday 16 February at 19.00 h, in the Auditorium of the Caixa Catalunya La Pedrera (Passeig de Gracia, 92).

15 February 2010

Tomorrow Wednesday 10th of February at 19.30 h, at the Cultural Centre Sant Josep of Hospitalet, Barcelona (Av/ Isabel la Católica 32, BS floor), the documentary "The 11th hour" will be shown, produced and narrated by Leonardo Di Caprio. The film describes the last possible moment to change to avoid the effects of climate change in the world.

9 February 2010

Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Cerdà Plan, the TV3 program "Sense ficció" is broadcasting a documentary in which the renowned journalist and chronicler of the city of Barcelona Lluís Permanyer (awarded this year Cerdà Medal 2009, awarded by the College of Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Catalunya) evokes the urban adventure of gigantic proportions that pushed the city toward modernity and explains the Barcelona we know today. A brilliant and decisive page in its history that is at the same time, the story of an injustice and of a damned Ildefons Cerdà.

28 january 2010