My 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).

Evocation of the cultural and social environment through images of family movies.

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.

"As poor people we shouldn't work, being poor is already a job, isn't?"

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.

Interview with Carolina del Olmo.