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Who are you and what is Numax? 0:00:18
How was Numax born? 0:00:35
How do you get a guarantee from a financial services cooperative like Coop57? 0:10:19
Did the 15M have anything to do with the start of Numax? 0:14:19
Is everyone in Numax Galician? 0:17:09
Why that name? 0:17:57
Why have you chosen the model of Non-Profit Associated Work Cooperative? 0:20:24
Does something in the concept of work itself change in developing this work in the context of a cooperative? 0:24:58
Can you explain how you operate internally? 0:30:44
How do people come in to participate in NUMAX? 0:36:31
Do the people participate in Numax’s screening agenda? 0:39:14
Is Numax a political project, and if so, what kind of politics are we talking about? 0:41:27
What type of activities do you carry out in the laboratory? 0:42:12
Can you talk to us about the distribution work that Numax does? 0:44:04
What selection criteria do you follow to choose the titles for distribution? 0:47:37
Do you believe that there’s a culture of original-version film, or auteur film? 0:48:25
What institutional support has Numax had? 0:51:51
What relation does Numax have with the University? 1:00:05
Numax is a movie theater, a bookstore, and a laboratory for design, communication, and audiovisual production. They are a not-for-profit cooperative made up of people coming from diverse fields of creation and cultural diffusion who decided to collaborate. The name Numax is the brand of a German household appliance factory that was headquartered in Barcelona in the 70’s. This factory experienced a series of conflicts that gave rise to a film called Numax presents, directed in 1979 by Joaquín Jordá. Basically, it was a process in which the workers, fired after the owners abandoned the factory, decided to restart production, therefore having to define how they organize themselves. In this way they were similar to us in their process of learning, training, living, and their emotional connection between people in the group. All of the core organizers of this organization knew about that movie, which is where the name comes from. It was one more connection, Numax united us and now Numax unites us. The idea of recuperating something is also nice.
