Going in depth into her father’s photo archive and diaries about his experience during the military service at the Sahara spanish colony in 1964, Pilar spots the lost paradise where he always would try to come back. In the eighties and nineties, after the failure of his family project, Manuel Monsell will start to traveling to the Maghreb. Again with his photo camera, he will run after the beauty of some portraits which could move him to the place of his dreams. But all these trips reveal much more about the place of departure than about the place of destination. Romantic love, independence and family compose a stage of a refuge that getting itself broken, it commit ourselves to ask not only about our more sincere desires but also about the need of rethinking the sense of these old words.
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Interview with Carolina del Olmo.
Conversations between house maids in Mexico City.
Tender family nightmares, solitude and aimless drifting.
A camera enters the house of Luis Marsans (Barcelona, 1930 - 2015 ). Hand in hand with his daughter, familiarly, the camera records, observes, listens. The painter, who has been described so many times as a secret, takes the floor and little by little begins an exercise of introspection aloud that will allow us to delve into the life of the artist, as well as visit some of the places of his painting.
Untitled"As poor people we shouldn't work, being poor is already a job, isn't?"
In Memorias, norias y fábricas de lejía, images portraying happiness – the only images that home movies allow – clash with a voiceover recounting stories of the migration of agricultural workers from rural Andalusia to industrial centers in Catalonia. A film-essay on migration, memory and the impossibility of accessing self-representation.
UntitledA walk around Iran in its daily life, without filters. The video camera acts as the eyes of the traveler who tries to win over some moments. A tour of 20 minutes around the cities of one of the biggest country in the world.
UntitledEvocation of the cultural and social environment through images of family movies.
UntitledMy father taught me to play chess, shortly before leaving home forever. I was a child. Forty years have passed, he has just died, and I have decided to complete the ritual that began on the day that I managed to beat him. This short is the first part of the RAÍZ trilogy, which has continued with 'Vencejos' (2020).