“Socotra, the island of djinns” is based on the book “Socotra, la isla de los genios” published by Atalanta ediciones. The film is the story of a trip on the remote island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, known in antiquity for its Phoenix and Rukh birds. In the rest of the Indian Ocean, the monsoon winds, have propitiated commerce and civilisation. Without any bay or natural port and surrounded by reefs, Socotra is isolated during the monsoon when is imposible to land. This isolation has preserved a unique environment. Frankincense and myrrh trees grow freely on Socotra.The dragon blood tree unique to the island has sap that is a red as blood. It was used by the gladiators of Ancient Rome to cover their skin and to protect it from injuries. The varnish that gave a unique and precious touch to Stradivarius violins, is also credited to the sap of the tree, a secret kept by the luthiers of Cremona. On the journey are Ahmed Afrar, youngest son of the late sultan of Socotra, some companions and three cameleers with their animals. They trek to the mountains before the rainy season. En route to visit relatives, the socotrians speak tell stories by the fire. During the night, conversation turns to legends of djinns and monstrous snakes that dwell in the cavernous interior of the island. A surprising and vanishing world is revealed. Is the first and only movie spoken entirelly in the genuine socotrian language, A southern arabian language related to the old language of the Kingdom of Sheba.
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2016
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ES ES-OVNI CTX-S020-SS003-0005
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2016
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"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors..." [William Blake] An old pilgrim dressed in rags observes a flower in the dark of the night ... The old man is a door between the things that are known and unknown ... symbolizes the decline and the end of what we have taken for real, and now it is perceived as ephemeral and inconsistent, as the poverty of his clothes dragged by time. The proximity of death as an unavoidable truth gives his own vision; a new and deeper insight not limited to visual perception, and beyond logic and laws of the world. Maybe that's why in the dark of night can contemplate the beauty of a flower.
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0014
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2002
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In one of the least populated regions of the world, a few men lead lives in total solitude, spending months and months alone. This documentary tells the story of three of these men. Isolated from the world for different reasons, they survive in a suspended time of their own in one of the harshest environments of the world.
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ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0063
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2003
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Suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman's voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living.
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/ THE BLACK TAPES / TV CODE /
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/ 1989-1994 /
/ ARCHIVOS DE TANGER /
/ EL HAMDULILLAH TAPES * PIRATE UTOPIAS & EUROPEAN RENEGADOES /
/ FEZ CIUDAD INTERIOR /
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SOBRE PAJAROS Y VISIONES
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Abrir la visión
No solo un cambio.
Migra Visions 2.0
Migra Visions
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Entre el Agora y la Frontera
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Fez, Ciudad Interior
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Los hatillos de trigo esconden los pinchos del azufa
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2019
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/ VIDEO ESSAY 2001-2016 /
/ THE BLACK TAPES / TV CODE /
/ EL HAMDULILLAH TAPES * PIRATE UTOPIAS & EUROPEAN RENEGADOES /
/ THE RAIN IN DUAR MSUAR /
Entre el Agora y la Frontera
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The sheaves of wheat hide the thorns of the jujube... drops of blood are sown in the dust
the woman's belly enters full moon... announcing a still-distant October
the harvest is a time of Remembrance, of gratitude.
ES ES-OVNI DIF-S014
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2023
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22 February from 19:00 to 21:00
CRA'P - Mollet del Vallés
A video programme about India and the celebration every 12 years of the Kumbh Mela. This festival is considered as the "world's largest congregation of religious pilgrims". Kumbh Mela means an "assembly, meet, union" around "water or nectar of immortality".
- Reflexiones de Babashivananda , Alberto Martos, 2003. India, Spain, 10 min, VO Spanish.
Varanasi, 6 a.m. 2nd week. Among the narrow streets of this sacred city, someone invites me to conduct an interview. I don’t understand what he says, but I follow him.
- Kings With Straw Matts , Ira Cohen , 1998. USA, India, 70 min, VOSE
A documentary about the Kumbh Mela in India. Edited from over 60 hours of footage shot in 1986 and edited in 1998 at Mystic Fire Video.
Limited places, early booking: info@cra-p.org / 666 763 504
CRA'P - pràctiques de creació i recerca artística ( creation practices and artistic research )
Anselm Clavé 67, 3r - 08100 Mollet del Vallès
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2020
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Between March and April 2020 almost all of humanity have been confined to their homes due to the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. This confinement, with its uncertain end, has revealed to many the incalculable value of a window. But, does everybody have one?