The looking glass is a recurring motif in the history of culture. Traditionally, it has served as a metaphor for identity, but also as a "magical" object, a projection of the soul, a threshold between two worlds, or a mechanism for uncovering what remains hidden. Despite these variations, the looking glass retains an unsettling dimension, as it brings into play the tension between knowledge and its opposite: deception, duplication, or the abyss.

Through this lens, Joaquim Jordà's entire filmography (Santa Coloma de Farners, 1945-Barcelona, 2006) emerges as an inquiry into reality and its representation. Translator, critic, teacher, screenwriter, and director, Jordà turned his work into a reflective device through which he sought to reveal the world while questioning whether it could, in fact, be revealed. To this end, he filled his films with looking glasses, glass, reflections, doubles, simulacra, and fictions.

His career begins and ends with looking glasses. It begins in 1959 with Patata en patata, and concludes in 2006 with Més enllà del mirall, completed posthumously by his collaborators and inspired by the adventures of Lewis Carroll's Alice, a foundational reference in the tradition of the looking glass.

On the 20th anniversary of his death, this exhibition revisits Jordà's legacy through the looking glass, a crucial object in the history of culture and a central motif in the filmography of one of the most influential figures in Catalan cinema.

Production: Museu del Cinema. Curator: Cristina Rubio. Exhibition coordinators: Jordi Dorca and Jordi Pons. Design: Cristina Masferrer. Documentation and conservation: Joaquim Carreras and Joaquim Puigdemont (Arxiu Comarcal de la Selva); Montse Puigdevall (Museu del Cinema). Audiovisual rights management: Jordi Dorca. Audiovisual editing: Cristina Rubio. Communications: Jordi Dorca. Exhibited material: Joaquim Jordà documentary archive (Arxiu Comarcal de la Selva). Cameras on display: Museu del Cinema. Photography: Óscar Fernández Orengo and José González Morandi. Source of audiovisual material: Filmoteca de Catalunya, Filmoteca Española and Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (AAMOD). Audiovisual material courtesy of: Alejandra Molina Rios, Arxiu Històric de l'Institut del Cinema Català, S.A., QS Audiovisual Heritage Lab, Elisabet Duran, Josep Duran, Films de l'Orient, Filmax, Jacinto Esteva, Filmoteca Española, Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Josep Miquel Martí Rom, Massa d'Or Produccions and Mercury Films. Acknowledgements: María Antonia Madroñero, Sergi Jordà, Bruno Jordà; Fran Benavente; Glòria Salvadó and Jordi Balló (Centre d'Estudis Joaquim Jordà); Josep Calle (Filmoteca de Catalunya), Ruth Fernández López (Filmoteca Española), Claudio Olivieri and Aurora Palandrani (AAMOD), Josep Miquel Martí Rom, Elisabet Duran, Josep Duran, Luís Estêvão (Jacinto and Daria Esteva), Esther Cases (Arxiu Històric de l'Institut del Cinema Català), Sergi Miravet and Rita Sardà (Filmax), Sandra Forn (Films de l'Orient) and Aleix Castellón (Massa d'Or Produccions). Supported by: Diputació de Girona and Generalitat - Department of Culture. In collaboration with: Ajuntament de Santa Coloma de Farners and Arxiu Comarcal de la Selva