Interview with Javier Aguirresarobe.
Madrid Film School and the Camera specialty
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https://doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.32.2026.22370Keywords:
Javier Aguirresarobe, Cinematography, Madrid Film School, Spanish cinema, History of filmAbstract
This paper presents an in-depth interview with Javier Aguirresarobe, one of the most prominent cinematographers in the history of Spanish cinema. The conversation focuses exclusively on his period of training in the Madrid Film School. Despite a growing body of scholarship, the training of cinematographers remains a historiographical lacuna. The interview reconstructs key aspects of the school´s final phase and describes the pedagogical criteria, practices, and codes of conduct in place in the period immediately preceding the school’s closure in 1976 (Aguirresarobe graduated in 1973). The testimony shows on the classicist framework to which the learning processes were subject, processes that affected not only the interviewee himself but also a generation of film professionals during a moment of cultural, political, and aesthetic transition. This paper offers a basis for future research on technical training in filmmaking in Spain.
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Castro, A. (1974). El cine español en el banquillo. Fernando Torres
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