Chus Domínguez

Following the trip Pasolini made in 1959 along the entire coast of Italy as a reporter for the magazine Sucesso, they where located different places as possible scenarios for his death. Understanding cataloging as a tool that allows us to organize knowledge for recovery, this catalog offers the viewer the possibility of redemption of the rebellious individual or the questioning of our acceptance of the critical difference.

An audiovisual excavation in the mining area of Gordón (León), in the village of Ciñera, affected by the dismantling of the mining industry and the ways of life associated with it. The project has been conceived as a collective work through local groups, in which the last images of the mine are intermingled with the conversations held between women miners throughout the period 2016-2017. The resulting film adds layers of complexity to an epic reading of the class struggle, while highlighting aspects such as care work or affective components, usually relegated in the conventional narrative about the mine.

It rains. The millstone continues to turn in the mill, tireless. Winter is coming to an end. In the abandoned village, spring plays its way through the fog. Life and death in a land anchored to the sea and the fog, where the past is as present as the future.

Patricia Lamas, with her generosity and energy, invited us to improvise-play-share at the recently opened creation centre L'animal a la esquena (Celrá, Girona). From that meeting resulted, among others, these improvisations.

In a peculiar universe that looks much like our own present, the desires, fears and hopes of a group of people fighting to survive a world that appears to be heading towards fascism unfurl. "Ya habremos olvidado" asks La Rara Troupe in this ensemble tale that questions the audience by means of the experiences of our bodies as they pass through distance and solitude.

Video constructed from the discarded sound recordings made in the process of developing an archive that works with domestic images. Showing and hiding as possibilities in the exercise of the same right, memory and forgetfulness, silence and word, creating a diffuse narrative, although millimetric, that accompanies the images, or their absence.

All the rooms of Hostal España, a modest and centrally located establishment in the city of León, are occupied by elderly people, many of them coming from the abandoned rural environment. In its rooms, corridors and dining room, the seasons go by without pause for a community that has been invited to record their daily life and thus participate in the creation of a film that shows another possible way of life in the so-called third age.

In Jean Luc Godard's film ‘Vivre sa vie’, Elena Córdoba, choreographer and dancer, heard a short dialogue that spoke of the nature of chickens and their soul. This text gave rise to the idea of animating the body of a quail ready to be cooked and, following Godard, to search for the soul of this posthumous dancer.

If any cinematographic experience belongs from beginning to end to spectrality (Derrida), in “Kubrick” the relationship between cinema and ghostliness is explicitly evident. Through a performative spell, the projected light frees the images from the proper territory of the specter (neither alive nor dead), giving them life, or, which is the same thing, giving them death.

The autumn weather in a remote village of Caurel, in the mountains of Lugo, the slow time of the rain, the time to look for the fire...

‘In the realm of the visible, all epochs coexist fraternally, even if they are separated by centuries or millennia’. John Berger. ‘The third eye turns on a recognition: the Other perceives the veil, the process of being visualized as an object, but returns the glance [...] the third eyes winks at us [...], but notice how ridiculous my cage and my image are’. Tobing Rony.

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The camera witnesses the preparation, the rehearsals of a play. It captures the faces, the space in which they meet, the voices. It is not about the show, but about the whole creative process that precedes it. Bodies that change, that transform, and that are observed through the gaze of the lens.

Like a notebook on the filmmaker's stay at the Eslava guesthouse in the old quarter of Pamplona, these notes of the ephemeral are filmed as one lives: without turning back, assuming mistakes, looking at fleeting lives that come and go, like notes on the inexorable passage of time.

Architecture is a hunt for harmony in the chaos, a way of putting order in the universe through the creation of regular angles. The severity of the forms of a Francoist building – the Universidad Laboral in Gijón, Spain – is distilled and decomposed into its patterns, in this piece made with a mobile phone device for filMO (a project commissioned by Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón).

This audiovisual essay dives into the complexity of the border space from three European enclaves located in African territory: Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands. The film plunges into the gap that unites and separates Africa and Europe, in search of the ruins and ghosts from the wreckage of the utopias that have grown on both sides: Europe as a promised land for the dispossessed South and Africa as a paradise for the exotic-hungry North.

A silent tribute to free culture carried out with the disinterested collaboration of the former head of culture in the country.

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A character adrift, half real, half created, and a look/listen that searches for reality in these two halves. An encounter between two forms of creation, which may have in common the visual, the sonorous, perhaps the scenic, and certainly the poetic.

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