November

Alfredo comes to Madrid to do street theatre. His aim is not to perform on a stage; he wants to put on shows in squares, parks and crowded streets, where the audience does not know what is happening. He forms a group and the performances become steadily more provocative. At some point theatre in the street mixes with a real event and the group's actions start producing consequences. Achero Mañas builds the film in the form of a fictional documentary: interviews given years later, archive footage, and the accounts of group members. That structure gives the impression the performances really happened. At the centre of the narrative sits a question: can art itself be action, and when it is, whose consent was taken. Óscar Jaenada plays Alfredo. Who it's for: Viewers who like Spanish independent cinema, mock-documentary structure, and narratives about art. Who it's not for: Some of the performance scenes are disturbing and the film's own view of them is not clear. The structure also repeats.