Since 2005, the Hirshhorn's Black Box art space has been devoted to video artwork, showcasing new and established artists from all over the world. The current exhibition highlights the work of DEMOCRACIA, a Madrid-based artists' collective known for socio-political themes. For Ser y Durar, the film currently showing at Black Box, the artists worked with a group of parkour pros and filmed in Madrid's Almudena civil cemetery, the final resting place for many prominent political progressives, intellectuals, and founders of the Spain’s democratic society in the pre-Franco era. The result? A captivating contrast of athleticism and anthropology.

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