Screening of the documentary La Siemens una fàbrica de records (36') by Isaac Cañizares, followed by a discussion on social and urban issues.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a shift in economic and social conditions pushed the rural world towards the dream of prosperity, dressed in factories and smoke. Hundreds of humble families exchanged sickles for motors. The Siemens factory, now the Cultural Space of the Caldereria, is a complex of buildings from the old Siemens factory that houses a small part of this world of successful and frustrated aspirations, inflated expectations, and lives disrupted by a new direction set on the production line.
La Siemens una fàbrica de records portrays the lives of former Siemens workers, serving as a starting point for a journey that aims to highlight a change in attitude towards life and a life that transforms in response to new attitudes.
This project was the winner of the “ARTWORK’09. Local Laboratories of Visual Arts” programme, run by the Department of Culture of the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Local Audiovisual Network (XAL) and the European Social Fund.
Participants: Jesús Martínez Ortiz (author of the book Este es nuestro delito. El movimiento obrero en la Siemens de Cornellà de Llobregat 1954-1977 and former Siemens factory worker), Manuel Llambrich (documentary subject and former Siemens worker) and Isaac Cañizares.