Barcelona Animation Screenings and Workshops

Animation is built one frame at a time, still images assembled patiently into movement long before anyone in Barcelona ever sees a result, and what reaches the public here comes as screenings, open studio days and workshops rather than as an opening night. Frames first. Barcelona Artists carries each one exactly as the member behind it wrote it up, complete with its own date and place attached.

Barcelona's animation calendar is anchored by its schools, which turn out a batch of graduation shorts at the end of each course and put them on a screen, and by the small rooms that carry the rest of the year: neighbourhood cinemas and civic centres slot in individual sessions, and studios open their doors for a single day to show the shooting table. The Filmoteca de Catalunya programmes screenings as well, because animation shows wherever film shows, and a screening is simply how the work reaches a room.

A graduation screening or a neighbourhood cinema session runs like any other film show: seats fill, the lights go down and the reel plays through without a break, so arriving on time matters more here than at an opening. An open studio day works differently, closer to short visits than one sitting, and it is the one format on this page where the animator is reliably at the table rather than credited on a title card. A workshop asks for a block of hours rather than an evening.

Anyone with a Barcelona Artists account can put a screening, an open studio day or a workshop on this page in their own name; the artist role is not required, so whoever runs it posts it the same way. Narrowing by style helps when the list runs long. The animators behind these listings, their finished shorts and the courses that teach the craft are never more than a click away, and every one of them stays current because the people making the work post it themselves.