"Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life "

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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, Ernest Schoedsack, Merian Cooper (USA, 1925)

José Luis Guerin will present the idea of ​​The Promised Land through the film Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. As a special occasion, he will be accompanied by the composer and filmmaker Anahit Simonian who will perform live piano music for the film.

In 1925, with women excluded from professional associations, Marguerite Harrison founded the Society of Woman Geographers. She was a translator, writer, correspondent for The Baltimore Sun and spy for the USA in several countries in Europe, Japan and the Soviet Union, where she was detained for ten months. In this prison she met airline pilot Merian C. Cooper. The idea for this film was conceived between them. Harrison would largely pay for the filming, but they needed someone with technical knowledge and Cooper recalled having crossed paths with another squadron pilot in Vienna during his tours in the First World War: Ernest Schoedsack. The three ventured into a cinematographic experience that would take them on the trail of a people forgotten by the most adverse geographies of Persia.

Grass is, beyond the cliché of exoticism typical of the colonial imagination, a noble adventure film in its purest meaning and also the best exponent of the expeditionary cinema that became popular in the 1920s: the first genre to consolidate a narrative derived from itself: landscape.

Film will be screened in original language with Spanish subtitles. 

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