- An archives documentary video on his family calcimine workers in Andalusia. Involved with new video material from the artist himself. Leading to new forms and meanings around the notion of the modern subject, solid, perennial, unitary, the artist proposed as the form of an altered identity, exchange, reversed, by its own action and reflection. * Aimar Arriola (text).
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A reflection on the brutal changes to the landscape, and those who inhabit it that are being generated in many European cities through new forms of urban development. In this case, the protagonist is an industrial area full of factories and workshops created during the industrial revolution in the 18th century, which is currently undergoing devastating changes as a consequence of various economic and political interests.
La Makabra is a squatted factory, usually occupied by around fifty people. It is open to the public, and it works as a self-managed cultural centre in Barcelona's Poble Nou district. This is one of the social and artistic collectives affected by 22@, the urban design plan responsible for restructuring the district, which plans to evacuate the building. In spite of this situation the squatters continue performing shows and cabarets, because that is how they use this space, placing creativity up against consumption.
A documentary that criticizes Barcelona's mammoth urban restructuring process, which is carried out without the participation of the people who live in and use the city according to a model that chooses to ignore social memory, especially when it comes to the working class. Through the voices of some of the people behind this process, the documentary shows a side to this chapter of the city's history that is usually not presented by the media.
UntitledThis documentary seeks to boost the voices involved in struggles against the MAT (very high voltage power line), from legal actions to more direct actions, such as the first forest occupation in the Spanish state. They are all confronting the new 440Kv power line that is due to cross the Iberian Peninsula in 2013.
UntitledThis work, the result of a trip to Germany (taken in December of 2000) and of a personal investigation that lasted over two years, tackles the theme of the construction of memory and of the mechanisms of the production of history. Through the narration of my family’s history, it delves into the memory of the recent emigration from the spanish state to Europe, and reflects on the mechanisms of oblivion and remembrance, by recuperating the idea of the construction of memory as a nexus and a dialogue, and the elaboration from personal experience against the idea of an official history and memory, restricted to the institutional and articulated around the aestheticisation and the deactivation of the political subjects.
Deliberations on death.
UntitledA video that denounces the situation of more than 300 people who lived in the Nave del Poblenou in Barcelona, and the eviction order that was acted upon at 6am on 23 July 2012.
UntitledThe Night of the Living Dead: advertising nightmares and mass media monsters. Serie: TV Code_The Black Tapes. 1994 Barcelona.