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A brief silent passage composed of portraits of wild and domestic animals. Not the introduction to a thesis but an exposition without conclusions.
Archive interpretation of 1994 VHS material, presented in the Previous State programme of Epoch 12345-6 (OVNI 2026).
Video art by Lora Tensorska presented in the Surface Drift 1 programme of Epoch 12345-6 (OVNI 2025).
The goal of this documentary is to give a kind of snapshot of people's lives in the neighborhood of Raval in Barcelona on a normal day in wintertime in 2009. The idea was to accompany people with very distinct points of view through their everyday lives. All of these stories combine as part of one day in Raval, in which the camera changes situation and thus perspective over time, also meeting people to accompany and follow them on part of their daily route, observing and listening to their impressions of daily life in the neighbourhood. The cinematic design is to be clearly distinguishable and stand out from a classic reportage or documentary film style. The film does not follow a story in the classical way, it does not use any interviews, a narrative voice or music which is not part of the ambience in the image. Instead the camera is observing simple situations in the daily life in the Raval neighbourhood, following its main protagonists as a silent observer in their ordinary life.
Untitled1991 is a key date in the construction of the global empire. At the start of the first Gulf war, George Bush "the father", paraphrasing a soldier, declared: "I don't think we're in this war over the price of a barrel of oil, we're here to define the future of the world for the next 100 years".
Untitled2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
“You can see a bird in flight and watch to observe it, or feel that you are flying with it. That is contemplation, becoming the other.” Hafiz. Despite (or because of) its apparent calmness, contemplation is the state that most radically dissolves and liberates the self. Through contemplation, the other gradually seeps into us like gentle rain ... without realising it, we suddenly start to see ... the world is not outside us and nothing is lifeless ... images appear and disappear over the silence of that which has no name or form ... like the blinking of something that isn’t our eyes... perhaps then the inner teacher will appear intimately... you will recognise him because all that has withered blooms again ... then we will know that the sky can also be stone and feet can walk on clouds and ... But make sure you do not name him ... for he will vanish.
About Home shows what happen when people live more than 60 years in a refugee camp. The film goes inside the intimate life of a Palestinan familiy to show their thoughts, desires and contradictions after more than half a century living in Lebanon as a refugees. About Home explores the meaning of living in stand-by in an atmosphere of hate, violence and arms. Small clockwork bombs inhabiting a compulsive country.