The 36th parallel is an imaginary line on a map and also the real site of clandestine emigration across the Gibraltar Strait.

"Paralysis - on the state of terror" is a documentary about our archival and records systems, and the role of images in constructing our past. The mental images of individual memory, the personal and subjective filing system of unique historical experiences that, when told, become eye-witness accounts, and archival material as a device/interface that configures an objective past, biding its time in image libraries all over the planet. A journey through subjective and objective history, guided by four characters: The Witness, a survivor of a nazi concentration camp; The Researcher, tracking and analyzing traces of the past; The Archival Material, source and extension of historical memory; and The Narrator, creating and directing a discourse where history impregnates the present and is revised.

Pare de Sufrir, cease suffering, is the name of a church very near to the house where I lived in Guadalajara (Mexico). This video is about madness, faith, consumer culture, advertising, design, identity... The images are photographs that I took during long walks through the city, and they focus on Mexican advertising and graphic design, which shows a great sense of humor. I'm fascinated by the functionality of the graphic design there, which doesn't focus so much on creating an image or on competition - something which I greatly appreciated, specially after living in a city like Barcelona. The audio is based on interviews with psychiatric patients in Central America, which I found in a publications and asked 5 girls that I met in the city to read out. For me there is no difference between text and image, both of them surround us every day, and I don't think an image is worth more than a thousand words. I don't consider it my task to create, but to recreate myself within the things I experience, to make them my own. Every image and every text has its place in the story of each video, and the fact that the images do not correspond to the audio, and that they are mixed with written text, creates free associations and adds new subjective meanings to the stories.

The upgrading of the final stretch of Diagonal avenue in Barcelona's Poble Nou area, for the launch of the "Forum" zone, will lead to the physical disappearance of entire blocks of housing and a way of life. An interview with a group of residents affected by a PERI (special renovation plan) that affects a block of ground floor houses in Poble Nou. They talk about the real estate agency's bad management and the lack of interest shown by the City Council in their excitement over the opening of the Universal Forum of Cultures.

In the summer of 2004, citizens of Barcelona carried out an aquatic action against the hypocrisies and corruption involved in the concept and implementation of the Forum of Cultures. This documentary tells of their mission to reach the Forum in "pateras" (the small boats used by illegal immigrants to cross the Gibraltar Strait).