INDIA (2009)
Duration: 2’30’’
Play fragment: 57’’
Format: Video loop DV PAL
Description: A travel in India, surrounded by foreign faces, smells, traditions, landscapes... Having a feeling of not facing reality, just impressions...
Synopsis: Captured impressions.
BESÒS RIVER (2009)
Duration: 10’
Play fragment: 1’40’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: This video documents a 30mn live video and sound performance together with the musician and artist Juan Matos Capote.
Synopsis: Audio and Visual field recordings of the Besos River in Barcelona (Spain). This is a place where nature and industry meet and mingle.
CITY ANIMAL (2009)
Duration: 9’48’’
Play fragment: 32’’
Play fragment: 32’’
Format: Video DV PAL Double Channel
Description: I filmed animals (captured and free) in two differents urbans environments.
Synopsis: Animal behaviour in the heart of the two cities Barcelona, Spain/ Varanasi, India.
BEIJING (2007)
Duration: 2’46’’
Play fragment: 34’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: Beijing, the capital of China, a country experiencing an economic boom: a couple meanders in pijamaswhile doing their saturday shopping. With my camera I follow this carefree moment, a suprising encounter in this megalopolis ruled by construction, pollution, assembly line work...
Synopsis: Outing in pyjamas.
ABUELA (2007)
Duration: 7’01’’
Play fragment: 34’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: Since 2006 I started recording my environment. Abuela is one of these portraits.
Synopsis: My grandmother, 94 years old.
MONGOLIA (2006)
Duration: 12’ 01’’
Play fragment: 34’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: During two months I toured the country hitchhiking, staying a little time in the different places that I went to. The motive of my journey was to work on the notion of space, time and movement. The result is a subjective vision, using my camera, of what I felt and perceived during this moment in continuous movement.
Synopsis: Space – Time - Movement
STOCKHOLM RYSSVIKEN (2005)
Duration: 7’52’’
Play fragment: 34’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: To enter abandoned places with evidence of a past existence stimulates curiosity, strangeness, fear, surprise… The video shows simply a tour inside of two Russian ships abandoned in the heart of Stockholm. I invite the spectator to submerge into this place, discover it and invent his or her own stories.
Synopsis: On board two Russian ships abandoned in the bay of Stockholm.
TEHRAN (2005)
Duration: 5’11’’
Play fragment: 1’06’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: This video was a surprise, full of tenderness and an uncommon situation. It happened in front of my eyes and I captured it.
Iran is a country ruled under an oppressive government. People live under pressure. There is a large difference between private and public life.
I filmed the scene and through that, a paradoxical situation was created between: the image that I had as a westerner of Iran and the reality that I lived.
Editing the video I wanted to accentuate the dualism of war - game. The West always shows a negative image of Islamic countries. How many manipulated pictures have we seen of this place? A common picture is armed conflicts. They exist, but there are other images unpublished for the West.
Synopsis: Snowball fight.
TOKYO (2004)
Duration: 9’04’’
Play fragment: 1’04’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: What are reason, logic and truth? What determines them? These are the basic points of my investigation in my instance in Japan.
In this video there are 7 sequences where I bring together the loss of references, the artificiality and the madness of the human condition.
Synopsis: Concrete, lengthwise, and width wise, step by step/ Neither affirmation, nor negation, everything is grey/ To search for, give and lose one‘s reason kilometres from one’s reference points/ Solitude, fear and vertigo take over the daily life/ The earth beats, a shake changes my reality: life is here.
AL QUAHIRA (2003)
Duration: 1’
Play fragment: 1’06’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: I went twice to Cairo. From what I filmed the first time, I only kept one image. One year later I went back to Cairo without a camera and concentrated on recording the sound. I made a video one year later, for a festival in Japan, where they asked for a one-minute piece.
Synopsis: Foreigners at dawn.
ORIGEN DESCONOCIDO (2003)
Duration: 8’14’’
Play fragment: 58’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: Confronted with the question of “identity and existence”, I chose to establish it in my country of birth, Spain, where I had never lived. The cultural codes were strange to me and yet I dominated the principal communication tool: the language. This situated me in a position of “being and not being”, removed from what I lived and saw, but in a familiar environment. A foreign Spaniard.
Synopsis: To submerge oneself in a universe so familiar and so distant. To live mutations of identity, space and language related to the discovery of one’s own culture. To find the unknown in the known. To dominate the maternal language and to feel a stranger to it. To merge in the environment and feel out of place. Finally to belong only to the present moment. To always be on the edge, and perpetually question «the origin».
NEW YORK (2001)
Duration: 12’20’’
Play fragment: 35’’
Format: Video DV PAL
Description: The Summer 2000 before leaving for New York, I worked in a psychiatric center as an assistant nurse. This experience provoked in me a curiosity to ask myself how a person with a mental disease perceives.
In this video there are 5 sequences in which I search to bring together the loss of references, other degrees of perception, curiosity and absurdity, the frontier between real and unreal.
Synopsis: Sometimes the most simple and ordinary things can look strange or unreal. This sensation can develop until one loses references. This is when I find myself on the frontier «between two» (real-unreal). My perception of the world is altered, everything is possible, and everything has to be reconsidered. And it is in this moment when I live a true sensation of liberty.