Cinema and pandemics An analysis of the contents, protocols and form of exhibition in times of a health crisis

Abstract

The pandemic of covid-19 has changed the dynamics of life in all globalized societies. In a hyperconnected world, confinements were never contemplated. The impossibility to mobilize and perform simple and normal activities in daily life, have changed by the spaces private and limited house spaces. The cinema, as other arts and industries, is suffering the consequences of one of the worst health and economic crises in the last 100 years. And several challenges are posed in the present and future of the visual arts with respect to their migration to streaming platforms and their competition in cyberspace with large corporations.