MADRID 2015

MADRID 2015
MADRID 2015 is a digital film archive that sits at the crossroads of cinema and the digital humanities containing over 36 hours of film footage divided into 86 video entries. These lightly edited videos can be viewed chronologically or thematically by keywords, offering users the opportunity to engage with various types of archival material filmed in Madrid over the course of 2015, "the year of change" that reshaped Spanish society and initiated a political cycle that lasted until 2023.

Documenting struggles for political power set against a backdrop of economic crisis, austerity, mass evictions, widespread corruption and impunity dating to the Francoist dictatorship, both the scale and scope of MADRID 2015 testifies to the magnitude of the crisis in post-2008 Spain, as well as the degree of political mobilization and cultural experimentation ignited in 2011 by the 15M indignados movement, especially in terms of popular theater and public space.

As such, the archive is a singular repository of cultural memory that contributes to understandings of a consequential moment in Spanish history by providing an intimate cinematic gaze on a cultural process that will be scrutinized for decades to come by scholars and students of history, political science, media studies and communication, cultural studies, European & global studies, sociology, cultural anthropology, social movements, housing rights and historical memory, as well as journalists, activists and political agents. 

This intervention in the public humanities makes an unprecedented critical intervention in engaged digital scholarship that enriches existing forms of traditional scholarship, as well as journalistic archives, activist accounts, personal memoirs, and ephemera, images of which are digitally preserved in their original context by MADRID 2015, a one-of-a-kind digital film archive.

MADRID 2015 Website: LINK TO WEBSITE HERE
Scott Boehm, Project Director: LINK TO WEBSITE
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