CO- is an international festival of film and thought, which aims to visibilize cooperative, collective and collaborative creation. An initiative which emphasizes work born under the shelter of associative production and management methods and which generates alternative and bold aesthetics.
The festival was born from the Zumzeig cinema, the only cooperative cinema in Catalonia. Its objective is to sound out and reflect on the audiovisual panorama in relation to cooperative principles; in other words, audiovisual works that have been created collaboratively, in a way that is removed from the concept of vertical production, and which challenge the notion of authorship.
The main objectives of CO- are:
- To create an alternative offering of audiovisual language and aesthetics.
- To question the standard ideas around audiovisual production.
- To generate other ways of doing things, which change the concepts of vertical power.
- To be a meeting point for agents within local and international contexts.
- To generate a critical and well-placed perspective on the practices and discussions around the audiovisual.
- To be a structure of support and visibilization for cooperative, collective and collaborative creation.
- To be a platform for films which are consistent on an artistic, political and social level.