A short film based on an interview in a bakery in Berlin. When I first struck up a conversation with the people working there, they told me that they were from Iraq. As we continued talking to each other, they became more and more insistent on the fact that they were all Kurdish, and that they were making bread after a Kurdish tradition. A sign above the shop window that says “Oriental flat bread” in German, and I was curious to find out why the bakery “orientalized” itself. The answer to this question is not simple at all, and cannot be found in this film. What emerges instead is a fragment of a story suppressed between national narratives of war, displacement and migration.

The night crossing of a Mediterranean city by car. Its passenger stay there almost invisible, absorbed by the urban view. A voice confirms a lonely night wandering in a city by the sea, an urban journey made to let the time pass away. Who crosses this city isn't only passing through it. He's a local, for a night, before an exile without return.

Mapas Migrantes looks at migration in Barcelona from the period following the Civil War up until the present, through the city's buildings, infrastructures and street furniture. It is a kind of atlas, a series of maps that take shape through the voices of migrants, whose tales of the past invite us to re-read the city. Charting the invisible, we enter a territory in which individual subjectivities erase the boundaries laid down by the dominant discourse.

The civic behaviour bylaws recently passed by Barcelona City Council and applied to other Catalan municipalities bear a striking resemblance to Fraga's 1965 “Keep Spain Clean” campaign. Sex workers, skaters, artists, social activists... spoke out against the new legislation. The video covers the numerous demonstrations that were organised against the civic bylaws.

“With my passing travels, Istanbul remains enigmatic and without secret, far from prevailing visibilities.” (M.J. Mondzain) Everything is mixed, everything is there – not in organised, protected, preserved strata, but in accumulations, wearing, erasing, emptiness and chaos. A wild garden, here; the cycle of life and death; nothing is destroyed, everything is alive, wearing out, continuing. The clock: the Bosphorus. This city is way, the passing of. Here as nowhere else I perceive something of infinity, of the unceasing mixing of times, constant flux, appearing and disappearing; the presence of other times at the edge of the visible...

A film based on the Neapolitan cult of dead. It is said that these dead people call out in dreams, and sometimes appear in a crowd: the stranger who is staring at you. They want to be acknowledged. So you adopt a skull, one of the thousands of human remains that can be found below the city. This ancient cult that has been practised until recently has left traces, traditions and beliefs.

Immersion in the labyrinth of Daídalos

The exhibition Daídalos / Δαίδαλος is presented at the Port of Tarragona as part of the SCAN International Photography Festival of Tarragona. The exhibition, curated by Xavier de Luca and Houari Bouchenak, presents the works of Camilla de Maffei, Dani Pujalte, Denis Dailleux, Pauline Alioua, Myriam Boulos, Shareef Sarhan, Toni Serra *) Abu Ali and Matteo Guidi & Giuliana Racco.

This is a co-production of SCAN, Port de Tarragona and Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies. With the collaboration of the UNESCO Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Negra Mosca, and the OVNI Archives.

Saturday, November 23rd from 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Shelter 1. Port of Tarragona

Moll de la Costa 5-7. Tarragona

As a closing of the exhibition, a space will be opened to allow access to the different photographic proposals, providing the voices, experiences and visions of the collectives Negra Mosca and the OVNI Archives.

13.30 h Catering organized with Mescladís

13:00 h Dialogue visit with Negra Mosca and the curators Xavier de Luca and Houari Bouchenak.

16.30 h Session of projections of the OVNI Archives, in memory of Toni Serra *) Abu Ali.

Bagong Silang , Zena Merton, 2012. Philippines, 11min. VOSE.

A film about a community that lives in a cemetery in Manila. Rural poverty combined with a terribly overcrowded capital explain why many thousands of families have taken to squatting in the city's cemeteries. This film reveals their problems, jobs, sense of community and hopes for the future.

Napoli Centrale , Bouchra Khalili 2002. Morocco, Italy, France, 8 min, VOSE.

The night crossing of a Mediterranean city by car. Its passenger stay there almost invisible, absorbed by the urban view. A voice confirms a lonely night wandering in a city by the sea, an urban journey made to let the time pass away. Who crosses this city isn't only passing through it. He's a local, for a night, before an exile without return.

Le Bled (Buildings in a Field) , Jem Cohen, Lucy Sante, EE.UU, Morocco, 13min. VO.

"En route from the airport to the city center, we found ourselves amazed by the landscape outside of the car windows; a massive construction project under way in all directions. While not in itself unusual, we were by struck dumb by the epic scale and seemingly incomprehensible plan of the development and were drawn to return together to this puzzling zone".

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sabaudia e la "civilta' dei consumi , anonymous on the net, 1974, Italy, 5 mim. VOSE

“Fascism was just a bunch of criminals in power, but it managed to deeply transform Italy. Nowadays the opposite is true, and the power of today’s democratic regime is managing to achieve the acculturation and standardization that fascism was unable to complete. The power of the consumer society that destroys other particular realities and impoverishes the diversity of human beings.”

The City of Saba , DJ Kadagian, Four Seasons Productions, 2007, EE.UU, 9 min, VOSE.

"There is a glut of wealthy in the City of Saba. Everyone has more than enough. Even the bath stokers wear gold belts. Huge grape clusters hang down on every street and brush the faces of the citizens".

                                                                                                                                                             Excerpt  Le Bled ( Buildings in a Field)  

El Canto de la Abubilla , Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 2015, Morocco, 28 min, VOSE.

“Traveler who travels with no other baggage than imagination.”

Last Night Dikr , Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, 2005, Morocco, 7 min, VO.

The search for water, the descent deep into the well of the heart. Based on a 17th Century Persian poem by Najmudin Kubra.