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Mon Marquès: el combat de la memòria

Mon Marquès, a professor, already retired, of pedagogy at the University of Girona continues working, after more than thirty years, in an investigation into the exile of the Spanish Republican teachers. Mon travels from the education system of the second Spanish Republic 1936-39 to today, emphasizing the differences between the Republican educational system and the Franco dictator's system, as well as the repression suffered by these and forced exile to France and Mexico. This document brings lights to the darkness that has always existed on the subject of Republican exile, since as Mon says: of the remaining people we had data, but from those who marched there was no documentation, so they did not exist.

Mon Marquès: el combat de la memòria

NR 2017
While I'm singing

"While I'm singing" shows the daily life of a brave, curious and eccentric troubadour in his insistence on conquering a dream. Juan María Pampín is a hairdresser, but he defines himself as a plastic artist and sculptor of human hair, although his true passion is music. His persistent, witty humor and sharp conclusions about human existence draw a blurry line between the hilarious and the tragic. The director, Julián Montero Ciancio, raises the blinds of this hairdresser (and of her career with her debut feature) that goes far beyond normality. Welcome to the party.

While I'm singing

NR 2014
Opossum Resilience

Opossum Resilience is inspired on a series of encounters and interviews with a Zapotec female land defender. This place-based fabulation grounded in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, bastardizes Mesoamerican myths around four figures: a Hill, an Agave, an Opossum and Lady Reed. Lady Reed is a mythical Mixtec character who helps the opossum to cut the agave leaves in order to get its sugary alcoholic sap. Opossum Resilience overlaps the time of creation with a contemporary socio-environmental conflict around the imposition of a mining project in an Indigenous Territory. It summons the powers of festivity and inhebriation; and imagines an opossum providing an activist with the mythical powers to play dead and then revive.

Opossum Resilience

NR 2019
A Wild Dedication

As if engaging in an archaeological task, A Wild Dedication presents different objects found in the Woman Welfare Agency’s headquarters in San Fernando de Henares, which was operational from 1944 to 1985. Can a space built for female sexual repression give out traces of rebellion forms? Which affective memory do these ‘souvenirs’ trigger and how can they be integrated in the historic account on the Franco regime, the Spanish Transition and the first years of democracy?

A Wild Dedication

NR 2019