Un cinema en trànsit per a un temps d'incertesa

Abstract

Summary: The Catalan cinema has traditionally been confined within the limits of a linguistic ambiguity which has placed it between an industrial model accepting both Castilian Spanish and Catalan, and a model which considered that the Catalan cinema was one which solely utilized the Catalan language. Now that this debate seems finally to be over, a new debate arises which places the Catalan cinema between a model of author’s cinema, which has progressively gained cultural significance, and a commercial cinema which is trying to make its way through the American market. This debate is very much on the foreground after the Catalan cinema experienced a renaissance in quality and became much more present. Nonetheless, the cinema is located in a country which is undergoing a process of political transformation which has led it to a point where it wants to cut its ties with the administrative references of the Spanish state. This article aims to situate the Catalan cinema directly in the center of that debate, in a country, Catalonia, which is going through political and cultural transformation. [Keywords: Catalan cinema; cinema d’autor; industry; independence; avantgarde; documentary]