‘Acció Santos’ is a one-off event held in honour of the late Catalan conceptualist composer, Carles Santos, with very special guest, the athlete and speaker, Derek Redmond.

‘Acció Santos’ is presented as part of a London-wide survey of film-work by Santos’ lifelong collaborator, Pere Portabella. The event will celebrate and reinterpret the works Santos made alongside Portabella and other frequent collaborator in film and performance, Joan Brossa: a trinity of musician, filmmaker and poet who sought to transform their respective mediums and tear apart Spain’s then-fascist state in the process.

‘Acció Santos’ will honour Santos’ extraordinary body of work through sequenced piano (and thrown objects—and people—at the piano), motorcycle-playing, live ceremonial suit-making, Bacharach cut-ups, Brossa recitals, Portabella projections and the ritual howl of Catalonia’s gralla.

Organised by Tom Wheatley and featuring an international roster of collaborators: Daniel Blumberg, Ilana Blumberg, Magí Canyelles, María Mallol, Winstanley Schtinter, Ona Ballõ Pedragosa, Billy Steiger and The Filmmakers Choir, the event will be hosted by award-winning athlete and Olympian, Derek Redmond. Within his strikingly broad oeuvre, Santos wrote the music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, at which Redmond ran his last race - one of the most remarkable events in Olympic history, frequently referenced by Barack Obama.

To mark this event the ‘anti’ record label (‘anti-everything’) purge.xxx will release in a vinyl edition of 130 copies the seminal Santos’ soundtrack for what is perhaps Portabella’s best-known work, the Chrisopher Lee-featuring, Vampir-Cuadecuc.

‘Acció Santos’ is presented as part of ‘A WORM’S TAIL VIEW IS OFTEN THE TRUE ONE: FILMS BY PERE PORTABELLA’, the most complete survey of radical Catalan director Portabella, organised by Winstanley Schtinter for the Liberated Film Club and taking place across London.