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The disciples of Marcel Duchamp

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​Documentary  |  56'  | VO: English, Catalan, Spanish, French and Polish

​​The small municipality of Les Escaules, in the north of Catalonia, hosts the most relevant encounter of performance art that is taking place in Spain: La Muga Caula festival, which is dedicated to the French artist Marcel Duchamp. Three days where the sixty-five inhabitants of the village and their unmovable rural life is shaken by the presence of a group of artists from around the world who can be found hanging from the bell tower, mutilating themselves with a knife, or spending an hour shouting in the middle of the street simulating an abortion.

The film is a journey into the art of action through various perspectives. First, follows the passionate instructions given by Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku to a dozen students who attend a performance workshop during the festival.  Second, through the initiatory journey  that Anna -one of the students of the workshop- will do to enter a new universe. And third, with the recording of several performances by some of the most relevant artists from around the international scene: Antoni Karkowski (Poland), Cecile Richard (France), Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia), Isabel Corullón (Spain), Eliana Beltran (Colombia), Ramon Guimaraes (Catalonia)... ​

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Produced by Jopergon with the suport of Diputació de Girona, La Muga Caula, Ajuntament de Figueres i Museu de l'Empordà
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© Jopergon 2019​​​​