Madrid, Ext.

A person in a dark coat stands at the counter of a butcher shop labeled “Carnicería.” Various meats and sausages are displayed, with stacks of eggs to the right. The shop is numbered 16 and features tiled floors, fluorescent lighting, and a fire extinguis

Film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid in the form of a vast visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations, where commerce and wildlife, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect.

Filmmaker Juan Cavestany will join for a post-screening conversation with Cecelia Lawless, Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Studies.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies.

Part of "Cinematic Cities" in our "Campus Collaborations" series. In Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy of the filmmaker and Cuiado Con El Perro Productions.