This is a film about love, nostalgia and reunion, with the stories of a lifetime. Jean-Claude Carrière, acclaimed writer, scriptwriter, film critic, traveller, mystic, storyteller, husband and father, is searching for the best way to share his life with his daughters: Kiara, who is six years old, and Iris, who is forty eight. At some point, he decides to sum up his existence. A documentary about this man who was a faithful collaborator of Luis Buñuel, wrote over a hundred movie screenplays and was recently decorated with the Spanish Order of Arts and Letters.

Chinese Ghost Story is a poetic essay in which history and landscape converge to explore the construction of the railroad where 1,300 Chinese laborers lost their lives. There are no stories without places, and places are largely silent to what occurs. The retelling of Pu Songling's (1640-1715) “Kon-Sun-Ju-Liang” sets the counterpoint for this tale of the 1869 Transcontinental Railroad. Throughout the American West, we searched for those absent from the 19th century A.J. Russell photograph documenting the joining together of the eastern and western United States.

Out of the corner of the eye is the recording of a vision, sparked by the accounts of my grandfather, who lived in a small mountain village. The picking of blueberries and raspberries at dawn, in groups of people who kept in touch with songs and calls from one side of the valley to the other, made me think of a vastness of resounding sounds, filling the emptiness of space. I wanted to translate that soundscape into a video. The valley appears dotted with sparkles, glimmers that respond from one end to the other, from the bottom to the peaks. Thanks to the involvement of a group of more than twenty inhabitants of the valley, equipped with mirrors, I transformed a portion of the landscape into an expanded random choreography of presences amidst the woods, with coordination by radio.

Coplas de Pie y Espíritu Quebrado

Any: 1994

1 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1993. The attraction-repulsion relationship between a worm and a spider in the mystic trip of the poetic hero obsessed with the Jesus vision, his sinner wish and the final punishment in the dark abyss of hell.