CAAMI creates a relationship between the hermetic world of culture and television consumption, the sacred ambience of the museum and tele-shopping, in a video about the Atlantic Centre for Inflatable Modern Art, a parody of the culture industry and the television genre. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Famous and hooded, song lyrics, the 10 secrets of success, test: how well do you organize your time, beauty tricks. An extraordinary educational videotape! It´s main goals are to provide solidarity in the face of a repressive police state and to convey an anarchist critique of whatever is being protested nowadays. Highly recommended for your schoolkids!

Traces of the past and neglect gradually merge into spaces that leave new traces, ones that represent time regained and the search for meaning through communal life and the land as a bridge for human relationships. In December 2001, after 50 years of neglect, squatters move in to the ancient Masía of Can Masdeu and restore it as a home and rural-urban or “Rurban” social centre. The daily life of its 24 squatters unfolds in parallel to that of their neighbours, as they share the cultivation of the land and the defence of one of the last non-urbanized valleys on the slopes of Barcelona's Collserola Park.

“In our century, hospitality has been replaced by the hospitality industry. When we see the word in print or we hear it from somebody's lips, it is always in the context of the commercial world: whether it be in reference to a holiday package deal, a hotel or the customer service offered by an air hostess. Hospitality has become merchandise, and luxury merchandise at that. A service provided in exchange for cash, or better still, for a signed slip guaranteeing payment by some prestigious credit card. In this world of economic trade, we are vulnerable without the shield of a Mastercard or American Express card. Only the balance of our plastic can protect us.” Hector Zagal and Julián Etienne: Sobre la Hospitalidad.

...but desire remains in us as a challenge to the world even though infinitely deprived of its object.

Barcelona's Raval area as a point of intersection between different cultures, told through the voices of people who agreed to participate in the project. In this video, multiculturalism serves as a metaphor of branching paths, and a chance to learn from diversity.