One of the largest cultural and educational initiatives of all that has been developed in recent years in our country has reached our screens. This is CaixaForum+, the free online platform of the “la Caixa” Foundation. Over 300 titles and a thousand audio and video materials They constitute the initial offer of a unique and unparalleled service that aims to become a benchmark for cultural and scientific dissemination in the Spanish language.

Having expanded its network of cultural centers throughout Spain, the La Caixa Foundation continues its mission to bring science and culture to the widest possible audience through this symbolic project that offers users universal access from anywhere to a wide range of unique, rigorous and high-quality contentthe same principles that govern all entity programming.

original and exclusive content

The result of over three years of work, CaixaForum+ offers users a wide catalog of series, podcasts, films, documentaries, news programs, interviews, concerts, operas, digital art and a long list of formats and content. organized around nine themes: visual and plastic arts, performing arts, music, literature, thought and history, cinema, architecture and design, life sciences and physical sciences.

About half of the available content original productions of the Foundation ”la Caixa”. These are complemented by collaborations with other national and international institutions and quality programs acquired by the Foundation to complete the platform offering. Subscription is freeand this can be done through the CaixaForum+ website or the mobile platform app already available on the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android).

Voices of culture

The CaixaForum+ directory offers a wide range of content. One of his first big bets From urban and rural. In this ten-episode series, the writers Maria Sanchez and Miki Otero They travel across Spain in search of the brightest places and plots of contemporary Spanish literature. They do it with the hands of authors such as Bernardo Atxaga, Carlos Zanon, Teresa Moure, Elisa Victoria, Felipe Benítez Reyes, Marta Sanz, Elena Medel, Ignacio Martinez de Pison, Cristina Sánchez-Andrade or Santiago Lorenzo, among others. Also in literary terms, this can be seen on CaixaForum+. Footnoteswhere some of the most important writers on the contemporary literary scene explain which novel marked them and inspired them to devote themselves to literature.

February is the month of Agnès Varda. CaixaForum+ users will be able to watch “Cleo from 5 to 7” and the documentary “Varda por Agnès”.

Produced by La Fábrica and the “la Caixa” Foundation, creators archive is an impressive project that offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of Spanish artists, filmmakers, writers, actors, architects, chefs and philosophers. Ten hours of conversation with each of these cultural protagonists, whose memory is meant to be preserved and who offer a unique approach to their creative and intellectual contribution. Juan Marie Arzak, Isabel Coixet, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Antonio López, Antonio Muñoz Molina or Fernando Trueba are some of the names of the first season contestants. The second was joined by Miquel Barcelo, José Sacristan, Rosa Montero, Carmen Linares, Javier Mariscal and Josep Pons. Another development of CaixaForum+, Three Trumpet Clubalso explores the creative process of artists of all disciplines.

cinema in context

Some of CaixaForum+’s main stakes are related to the Seventh Art. In five short episodes Landscape from the moviedirector Jose Luis Guerin reflects on cinema’s approach to the physical environment through some of his favorite films. Rossy de Palma does the same in Ready to watch! with five feature films where fashion is the determining factor.

In addition, in collaboration with Barcelona Film Fest and A Contracorriente Films, CaixaForum will dedicate every month to a fundamental director in the history of cinema, one of his most important films and a documentary about his career. Wim Wenders, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard are some of the first names to be the subject of a retrospective. In February of this year, it was Agnès Varda’s turn. Until the next 28th, one of the most famous works of the French director will be available on CaixaForum+, Cleo 5 to 7 (1962) and documentary Varda by Agnes (2019).

Podcasts and Music Experiences

After success SolarisOndas award-winning audio essay podcast on contemporary culture, CaixaForum+ offers echoits long-awaited sequel, again by the author Jorge Carrión. Under the motto “Will we learn to listen?” This first season consists of ten episodes about culture, science and technology with a strong presence of sound and music as a sensory experience. It is about the growth of the podcast format on the contrary povcast. The Podcasting Phenomenon in Spaina six-chapter series that analyzes this phenomenon and examines this nascent industry from the perspective of some of its main exponents.

Symphony, the exciting musical experience of the “la Caixa” Foundation, which continues to tour Spain, is one of the institution’s most successful recent initiatives. A new project is being implemented around the popular Bolero Maurice Ravel, under the direction Joseph Pons and with the Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Orchestra in Barcelona, ​​and the result can already be seen on the CaixaForum+. Pons is also in charge of the orchestra in Beethoven 250a staged concert that chronicles the life of the great composer through some of his most iconic works.

art secrets

Visual arts constitute another of the topical areas of CaixaForum+. Each of the five episodes of the first season In the study offers a stimulating exercise: an artist visiting someone else’s workplace. The result is a collection of interesting dialogues between creators of different generations and sensibilities, such as Soledad Sevilla, Luis Gordillo, Perehaume, Juan Usle, Ignaci Aballi, Carlos Bunga, Lua Coderch or Pere Llobera. IN approachesphotographer Chema Salvans offers a series of conversations with professional colleagues. Estela de Castro, Alejandro Cartagena, Emilio Morenatti, Pilar Aymerich, Yann Gross and Mireia Sallares sum up their careers in the first season.

In line with the support that the “la Caixa” Foundation provides to video art and digital art, there could not have been a space on CaixaForum+ dedicated to the dissemination of this type of manifestation. screen space offers a total of twenty capsules that explore the diversity of digital art from figuration to abstraction. Artists Sophia Crespo, Soliman Lopez and Kim Asendorf created three works especially for this project. Among the novelties recently included in the platform, triptycha short documentary film inspired by El Bosco, recreating through music and animation some of the fabulous and mysterious scenes of the flamenco performer.

Proposals in the performing arts (ballet and opera performances), physics and life sciences (46 micro-documentaries 2 to 4 minutes long). Inhabitants of the microworld) or thought and history (stories with history, masters of journalism) complement the generous offer of CaixaForum+, which invites you to plunge into the world of culture at the touch of a button.