On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing line within the landscape of the valley. Below that level, the water; above it, life goes on.
While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill, and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love. She slowly vanishes into the winter landscape.
In 1972, in one of his best-known articles, Pier Paolo Pasolini spoke of the disappearance of fireflies. A few months later he was murdered. Since then the fireflies have continued to disappear. But there are still people who remember them.
In 1969, artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi made the short animated film Homenaje a Tarzán (Homage to Tarzan), which ended with an enigmatic «to be continued». “Ehiza” (Hunting) is its continuation. It accepts Balerdi's aesthetic proposal, but steps away from the colonial perspective of the films that inspired that work to depict the harshness of our own reality: harassment, violence and destruction.
Five peaks in the territory of Bizkaia are called "montes bocineros" (Deiadar-mendiak) from which, by means of sound and light signals, the General Assemblies of the "Señorío de Bizkaia" were summoned, a tradition that dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries. With the need to review our context and identities, this tradition is brought up to date by bringing a person with an instrument up each of these mountains. Guitar, bass, drums, voice and flag come together to revise this tradition, projecting a concert from the mountain tops for the territory.
In June 1931, two months after the proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain, the Virgin appeared to two boys in Ezquioga (Basque Country). After that, there was a spectacle of collective visions, trances and ecstasies that eventually congregated over 80,000 people in a single day. Among the prophecies, one said that in Spain there would be a war between Catholics and non-Catholics. In the build-up of this phenomenon, photography played a leading role.
Seven centuries made of stone are torn down on a single moon. Thus passes the glory of the world, in the blink of an eye.
A brief reflection on the geography of ideas found between internality and the ecology, the individual and the community. A group of amateur actors perform a variety of sensory exercises that include telepathic conversations, blindfolded walks and “plein air” drawings in seascapes and mountain landscapes in the Basque Country. This allows them to act upon their desire to touch and be part of the post-lockdown reality.
Random relation of found footage shots and AI generated poems that “occupies” the duration of the S8 original film and permits the activation of codes and processes within the viewer´s experience.
In the last decades, boarding schools of different religious orders have been closing down,
and with them, an essential pedagogical system of education and identity has disappeared. As part of their pedagogical method, the schools had an herbarium and a large collection of stuffed animals from the Missions. This film connects identity with the diaspora of the Missions, and the forgotten pedagogical systems with the construction of the exotic and colonial imaginary.
As Hélène Cixous said, we live in a time when millions of voles of an unknown species are undermining the conceptual basis of an age-old culture.
Iceland lives in darkness for much of the year. The good thing about night is that it's like a backdrop which erases the set and leaves you looking at the bare essentials, like looking at sheet of paper you have to draw on.
Plague: From the Latin word “plaga” meaning 'blow', 'wound'. Meaning: Massive, sudden appearance of living beings of the same species that cause serious damage to animal or plant populations. Abundance of something harmful.
Arid soil, sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayers bring the rain.
An invitation to contemplate bodies that are socially ostracised, but that paradoxically possess an intrinsic beauty and an unusual potency that destabilises our gaze. It can seem that sensuality, sexuality and fun are only permitted to youth. The film is a portrait of women over seventy years old, with their bodies sculpted by the passing of time.
In the middle of a winter journey, a walker wandering aimlessly questions living conditions and the meaning of life.
