Colectivo de Cine Polans

Colectivo de cine Polans was an audiovisual group formed by journalist and filmmaker Carlos Aguirre, economist and photographer Jose Aguirre, and engineer and urban planner Ramón Fernández Durán. Friends since childhood, they decided to begin creating audiovisual works in 1976–1977, focusing on urban issues and social criticism.

The protagonists of their creations were usually residents of suburban neighbourhoods who were trying to improve their living conditions or denounce their situation through actions in public spaces.

Clandestinity was a fundamental part of the group, as Franco's apparatus of repression continued to operate against collectives dedicated to social criticism. That is why they never signed their works with their real names.

The screenings were also held clandestinely, either in social centres or parishes in the neighbourhoods where the recordings had been made.

Text taken from ‘La digitalizadora del cine colectivo’ (The digitiser of collective cinema).