Lights, camera... and Barcelona!

Filming of the movie Bird Box Barcelona, starring Mario Casas

Barcelona, city of shoots: a set in ever greater demand

Ainara Valadez Medina

A central Barcelona street is closed to traffic. Several production trucks occupy the parking spaces. Meanwhile, technicians unload lights, cameras and microphones, actors run through the script, and Guàrdia Urbana direct the traffic. For many residents, finding a film shoot outside their front door — and even crossing paths with an...

Lights, camera... and Barcelona!

Day One: what if the dystopian future has already begun?

Ainara Valadez Medina

How much of our brain are we willing to hand over to artificial intelligence? Just a few decades ago, a question like that would have sounded like the premise of a dystopia written by one of the great authors of the genre — George Orwell, Aldous Huxley. Today, though, the...

The character of Arnau, the protagonist of 'Petit Indi'

Lights, camera... and Barcelona!

Petit Indi and Barcelona’s hidden sides

Ainara Valadez Medina

What image of Barcelona does cinema construct when the city becomes a setting? For years, the version of the Catalan capital that has made it to the big screen has been, above all, one defined by its most iconic landmarks: the Sagrada Família, Park Güell, the streets of the Eixample,...