GIJON.- Noches eléctricas [Electric Nights] takes its name from Les nuits électriques, a short film directed by Eugène Deslaw in 1928, in which he focused on city lights at nighttime, sequencing street lamps, neon signs and shop windows of Paris, Berlin and Prague almost as if it were a fireworks show. Similarly to fireworks, film is an intermittent ephemeral projection of light in the darkness. Through a selection of works from the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, this exhibition, borrowing the visual recourses of pyrotechnics, wishes to demonstrate the continuity between spectacles of fire and the art of the moving image: flowers, stars, rain, fire, storms, fountains, volcanoes… The exhibition begins with a series of classical French etchings representing fireworks, as well as a group of photographs by authors like Brassaï, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Dora Maar, and a major selection of experimental films which introduce contemporary works by by Brion Gys