"Imaginary Trips I" is a Portrait of a City where the different languages that inhabit the urban landscape intersect. The travel document through the subjective story, the history and the dislate, whose roots are the narrations about remote cultures and unknown territories: literary genre of seekers of fortune, sailors and anthropologists. In this first chapter of "Imaginary Travels", a tour of the city of Buenos Aires, its history and myths. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
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Open 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.
Four families who live in Bon Pastor, a Barcelona neighbourhood, refuse to leave their single-storey houses. Some refuse because they've lived there for their whole lives, others because they feel they've been duped by the Board of Housing. This video shows the action carried out by the support group “Asemblea de Apoyo a Bon Pastor” in solidarity with the four families who resisted, at a time when it is seen as “politically incorrect” to ask for what you believe is right.
UntitledMapas 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.
UntitledThe 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.
UntitledIA is an exercise that explores the format of the interview – as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity. When the procedure is laid bare, the substance is transformed. It could also be described as a series of visions from a city undergoing a reverse metamorphosis, an encapsulation, we could say: Barcelona 1992.
UntitledColorful journey through the walls and graffiti of the neighborhood.
UntitledSome of the entities that care or perform social tasks for people with different human problems.
A city built out of fragments found on the net. Mirages hinting at a world of ephemeral beauty and a forgotten people.
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