The First Look

In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas, called Escuela Oficial de Cine since 1961, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.