From 1936 on, Joan Miró's work entered a self-described "savage" period, obsessed, like Pablo Picasso's works in the same period, with modernist versions of the monsters that inhabited Francisco Goya's imagination. Through its dense montage, Pere Portabella's film Aidez l'Espagne situates some of Miró's work in this context, juxtaposing footage from the Spanish Civil War with prints from the "Barcelona" series and his iconic illustration Aidez l'Espagne. A commission from the Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC), Portabella's film was made to accompany the major Joan Miró retrospective in Barcelona in 1969.