There is one place on the Rambla that Ariadna Pi has always been very fond of. This has been true of all the incarnations she has known over the decades, especially when they have taken place in and around El Chino, such as when she existed as a textile worker and mother of a family in a flat in Carrer Escudellers, a florist on the Rambla itself, a whore in Robadores, a shop assistant in Plaça del Padró, a young girl who someone fell madly in love with one night in La Paloma and never saw again, a young girl with whom someone fell madly in love one night in La Paloma and whom she never saw again, an immigrant first from the Catalan and then Andalusian countryside, and very recently from the Maghreb, living in a shabby boarding house perhaps in Carrer Ample, and earning a living rubbing scales in the Eixample. It should be noted that the aversion to this building was not so much explained by the things that were done, but by the type of staff who frequented it: haughty, bloated, arrogant characters, disdainful of the working people of the neighbourhood. The frequenters were the masters, the bankers, the landlords, the financiers, the powerful and their respective wives, the "best houses" in Barcelona, all the most uptight people, always dressed in their best clothes, hypocritically bragging to each other...
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An Archives research and edit on several audiovisual documents from various sources dealing with the old Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea, most of it created for information and educational purposes. Images that illustrate the colonial obsessions of the times: the idyllic image of Spain's civilizing task, nostalgia for imperial times, the sadistic element in the hunt for wild animals, the work of Christianisation, the militarization of a layer of the population in order to ensure the existence of “loyal natives”, the perpetuation of the African stereotype...
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
A walk around Iran in its daily life, without filters. The video camera acts as the eyes of the traveler who tries to win over some moments. A tour of 20 minutes around the cities of one of the biggest country in the world.
UntitledAgainst the backdrop of the controversy surrounding bullfights in Barcelona, this satirical documentary looks at Catalan nationalism's tendency to demonise this Spanish tradition. The footage was filmed on the first day of the “last” bullfighting season in the city. Six months later, the City Council presented a parliamentary proposal to ban the public use of animals for entertainment purposes.
Bravo is the surname of the old lady portrayed in this video, the mother-grandmother of the author. Bravo also means brave, as though in reference to the encounter with the nude figure of the mother, revealed in desecrated images. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
UntitledOpen conversation with Toni Serra *) abu ali (OVNI Archives) and the authors of the videos of ACTE 34: The Other City: Marc Almodóvar, David Batlle and Giovanni Cioni, who will reflect on their works in particular and open discussion on the evolution of cities in the conflicts of global capitalism. Suñol Foudation, 3rd October, 2016.
A video about one of our most problematic social issues. Immigration, testimonies and declarations. Portraits which reveal and re-contextualise cultural, religious and racial intolerance in Spain. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
A quest for Al Khadir الخضر, the inner master. Al Khadir, a character generally unknown in Western culture, occupies a very important place in the popular and mystical knowledge of the countries of the Islamic rhizome, although its origins go back to ancient times. Al Khadir, literally the one who greens, inhabits the in-between world, the no-man's land, the fine interstice between the real and the unreal, life and death, sleep and wakefulness,.... this place is called Al Barzaj, the Isthmus. Where he passes, everything greens up, even the tracks of his footsteps are immediately covered with grass.