On November 12th, “The Academy of the Muses”, directed by Jose Luis Guerin, was shown at Yokogawa Cinema and a small talk show of the director was held after the showing.

About the showing of the film, Mr.Guerin said, “I am looking forward to seeing how people in Hiroshima accept this work, and also I have a little fear that how the European way of thinking make an impression on Japanese people.”
This film features the class in Barcelona University, and pushes the envelope of a fictional movie.
Taking about his motivation of making the film, “At the very first moment, I tried to create a work as an experimental one incorporating an essence of a movie, and I didn’t actually intend to make a movie itself” he mentioned.

“With a very little budget, we only had a woman in charge of recording, a small camera and the absolute freedom,” Mr. Guerin also told to audiences. As a typical feature of the film, the camera shot the scene of the nature, cities, and the expressions of people thorough the glass.
An audience member asked the director about this technique, then Mr. Guerin answered, “The atmosphere of the class at the beginning was more like a documentary. I needed the scene to move from the isolating space to the private space. All I could control was just a face of the actors in the frame. And also, we didn’t have any other cameras in the same room, that became an advantage for the actors who were not professional. I wanted to control things where nothing was around there,” mentioning that this film was actually completed when the imagination of audiences complement the work.