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.

This film is the final part of a three-documentary series by Carlos Casas that explores life in some of the most inhospitable regions of the planet. In this case, a group of whale hunters in northern Siberia continue to keep a thousand-year-old tradition alive today. Their archaic methods, their skills and their own struggle to survive are captured in all their harsh and spectacular glory.

Tender family nightmares, solitude and aimless drifting.

2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.

Conversations between house maids in Mexico City.

Habitus arose from the idea of shedding light on the circumstances surrounding class housing and to explore some of the complex Habits(us) and routines that it has produced in the Barcelona inner-city neighbourhood of the Raval. Various people talk about their lives in relation to their private habitat, the space they inhabit. The video is a kind of narrative puzzle around the complex net that must be woven in order to look for, find, maintain, coexist and live in the Raval at a time of intense urban activity.

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.