A video about the traces of slavery in the city of Barcelona, in the lead-up to the mass action known as the Catalan Way for Independence. It looks at the dark histories of the Marquis of Comillas, Güell, Delgado, Colom, and the city that names important spaces after them while the majority of the population remain oblivious as they struggle to “free themselves from Spain”. The video asks what it means to break free, what type of freedom we seek on the personal and collective level, and what we will make of our own history and particularly of “our” oppressors and murderers.
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Organized by spasms, repetitions and micro scratches, CHAOS results from a nervous shock to the simultaneous contradictions of media reporting.
"Welcome to Tangier is like your home, happy, very happy and nothing else. Why not ?.... Go go and look for Charlie you will be in good hands you know what I mean in good ?....in good hands, he will help you around and .... do you understand my friend'"
"Welcome to Tangier is like your home, happy, very happy and nothing else. Why not ?.... Go go and look for Charlie you will be in good hands you know what I mean in good ?....in good hands, he will help you around and .... do you understand my friend'"
"Welcome to Tangier is like your home, happy, very happy and nothing else. Why not ?.... Go go and look for Charlie you will be in good hands you know what I mean in good ?....in good hands, he will help you around and .... do you understand my friend'"
Annotations for a Work in Progress... In November 1994 I traveled from New York to Barcelona hoping to retain support film in what remained of the original Chinatown. One could say that at the time of my arrival in the neighborhood, this started to disappear. Currently it is being demolished and transformed following a massive urban redevelopment plan. Decline and future life, memory and oblivion: entropy as history.
UntitledA report that illustrates the insatiable thirst for power of media conglomerates. In this case, mainstream media groups use politicians to invent new laws in order to gain control of digital bandwidth for local broadcasts (in the Autonomous Community of Madrid), disregarding and attacking the neighbourhood channels that have been offering a public service for years.
A city built out of fragments found on the net. Mirages hinting at a world of ephemeral beauty and a forgotten people.
UntitledUrban space in the city of Barcelona is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of tourism. Four people talk about their impressions through their experience of systematised tourism in the city and the daily life of the people who live in it. “Abandoned City” is a 26 minute documentary that that takes its title from the phrase of one of its characters, who talks about the irony of an overcrowded city affected by abandonment. A local representation of a global phenomenon. This documentary is the result of the group work of the first year of the master of visual anthropology UB-Tanios films.
UntitledJune 2013. A group of 800 people illegally occupy a former movie theatre in Barcelona in order to screen a documentary. Once they are in, they rename the building after a girl who committed suicide in 2011. It becomes ‘Cinema Patricia Heras’. Who was Patricia? Why did she kill herself? And above all, what role did Barcelona play in her death? That is precisely what this documentary and the strongly symbolic squatting action seeks to bring to light: through Patricia’s story, they reveal the dark side of Barcelona: The Dead City.
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