Alberto Berzosa

Absolute pleasure as an identity. Alfonso de Sierra, Luis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bents were “Els 5 QKs”, a group of amateur filmmakers who, in 1975, decided to get together and create a transgressive and courageous filmography breaking social, religious, and political boundaries; placing the faggot as leading role hero: proud of himself, shameless, beyond good and evil. In this documentary film, Luis Escribano and Ces Martí, only living members of the group, review, alongside some actors, their creative process and what those films, forgotten till now, meant to Barcelona during La Trancisión.

Memorias de ultramar is built around footage shot by families that lived in the colonies, provinces and territories under Spanish domain between 1940 and 1975. A parade of snapshots common of those who move to a different country and start a new home. This scrapbook pages keep on turning, but in some moments the screening stops, the editor rewinds, zooms in, focuses and looks for echoes lying inside this trove of family mementos and memories.