The film, which is part of the Regional Film Archive’s record, documents one of the few visits the famous artist received during the 60s and shows how he worked on the creation of his ceramics.
The Film Archive of the Region of Murcia keeps a recording made in the 60s that documents the visit paid by Murcian amateur filmmaker, Antonio Medina Bardón, to the painter Pablo Picasso during his stay in the French commune of Vallauris.
The images are part of the vast material housed by the director’s family in the Film Archive, and which is currently being examined.
In particular, the piece is a 16mm colour film where the Murcian filmmaker records Picasso working on the creation of his renowned ceramics. Medina Bardón was one of the few privileged who could visit Picasso during the 60s in France, after he got married to Jacqueline Roque, and film him who became one of the most relevant artist of the 20th century.
The film archive keeps also Medina Bardón’s whole collection of both his own works and those of other authors. Antonio Medina Bardón was a painter, an amateur filmmaker and one of the pioneers of the cinematography in the Region during a major creative movement which took place in the mid-twentieth century. Medina Bardón, author of an extensive and varied production close to two hundred titles, became ‘the Master’ for the generation of filmmakers that succeeded him and his auteur films received prestigious awards.
The regional Film Archive has organised the screening of some of his works within the series ‘The Filmed Memory’. Likewise, the Regional Ministry of Culture contributes to the dissemination of his work by means of other initiatives such as a DVD compiling his best films, which will be shortly released.