/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020

La 12 Visual / 2nd MVI - Second Independent Video Show

Vídeo art. Independent documentary.

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Montalegre 5. 08001 Barcelona

falling and flying / OVNI 2014

/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020

falling and flying / OVNI 2014

Limbo (Lat. Limbus) ~ the world between the living and the dead ~ the storage space where deleted files are sent ~ a tale by Aldous Huxley.

There is an enormous, constant, and well-organised pressure on social rights and freedoms, backed by a media apparatus that appropriates language and steals our words. Meanwhile, nature is still the source from which we extract the fuel that feeds the engines of progress for the few.

Borders spill beyond boundaries and permeate cities like the laboratory for a new totalitarian society.

Fall & Winter, Cómo robar la vida a un ser humano, Terrorisme d'Auteur, Barcelona the Dead City, Deleuze à Vincennes, Marinaleda, iPhone China, Detroit Wildlife, Barcelona panAfrica, Agustín García Calvo at Sol, Homeland Security.

Thematical screenings

Hall and Auditorium. Simultaneous Screenings

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Montalegre 5. 08001 Barcelona

Image: Pour Auguste (2010). Chantal Michel

Through many voices, this project articulates the process of living in an area that until recently formed part of the periphery of the city of Barcelona. Torre Baró and Vallbona are two neighbourhoods that are expected to become a node of connection and expansion of metropolitan urban growth. This video tells the short history of these neighbourhoods by focusing on various themes: a first part explains the occupation of the area by settlers and self-builders; a second part characterised by the struggle, the process of socio-political demands and the consolidation of the associative movement; and a final part that outlines its possible future as an enclave of connection and interrelation with the urban context.

Gritos en el Cielo (Cries in the Sky) is an observational documentary that looks at the people’s movement that emerged in Barcelona in May 2011 and defied the passivity of society by occupying the city’s main square. As the movement grew stronger, the government and the media repeatedly tried to discredit it and force it to end violently, but its members - Barcelona citizens - decided to resist peacefully in order to bring about real change. The film includes many dialogues between people, police, ideologies, political and economic forces and the government. The story revolves around Plaça Catalunya, the epicentre of the movement in Barcelona. During the months that the square was occupied, the participants demanded real democracy and the reformulation of the country’s economic and political structures.

Can Ricart, in Barcelona's Poble Nou, was a textiles factory in the 19th century and an industrial complex with numerous workshops in the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century, the approval of the urban rehabilitation project Plan 22@, meant that industrial areas in Poble Nou were earmarked for demolition, to be replaced by office buildings. Can Ricart then became the subject of litigation between the affected workshops, the developer and owner – Federico Ricart, Marquis of Santa Isabel – defenders of the heritage value of the complex who wanted it turned into public space, and Barcelona City Council, responsible for the urban plan.