The Prado Museum opens its doors to a group of 33 16-year-old students from Rey Pastor High School, so that they can depict the museum. From early on, the students decide that they want to know everything that is usually hidden to the public and show it.
They had out-of-hours access to the museum rooms; they discovered “invisible” spaces such as restoration workshops, the laboratory, the technical cabinet, maintenance booths… They had the chance to talk to and live with the workers who bring the museum and the artworks into life. This is the unknown and fascinating reality that they wanted to show in the film.
The film is made by children of the IES Rey Pastor (Madrid) involved in the film education international project Cinema en curs (Film Education: Growing Up With Cinema focus)
‘Cinema en curs’ is a structural programme for primary and secondary schools on film pedagogy. Initiated in 2005 in Catalonia, it currently takes place in Galicia, Madrid, Argentina, Chile and Germany as well. ‘Cinema en curs’ is part of A Bao A Qu, a non-profit cultural association founded in 2004 to promote the enjoyment of art and culture by children and young people of all socioeconomic and geographical backgrounds, with a special dedication to those living in disadvantaged environments.
“A pedagogy proposal of, with and through art must generate movement; connect the here (and now) with there; like desire, imagination. It must maintain and amplify its “project” condition: bring together what it is still unknown and it is dreamt of, being a trace but at the same time a boost. Like emotion, it must be movement and provoke it. The power of an artistic creation activity is not measured in results and efficiency, but with the amount of desires, expectations and aspirations that sparks; it is measured by its capacity of “projecting” itself.