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Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Experimental short film, On display at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

A film about Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin which praises their creative freedom and commitment.

A group of people, blindfolded and fed distorted German dialogue through headphones, sit at a table and feel their way towards the food in the centre.

Documentary about the political and social reality of Uruguay during the period of 1968-1970. This short is incomplete and composed of a series of fragments. The complete film was taken by the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985) and is now lost.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Short Film, On display at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya; alongside Avenue Boulevard de l'Opéra.

A vital, physical and spiritual journey of a woman going through a love crisis, set in the port area of ​​Valencia.

A mafia gang tries to get some until a pretty lady appears to ruin their plans.

A boy is dreaming, comes out of the house, follows the trail of blood drops and arrives at a dead boy.

Based on the play "Los palos", by Salvador Távora. It was shot on Viznar, the place where Federico García Lorca was killed.

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends they will ride a bus 1,300 miles north and enter the United States by walking through the desert. They call America “El Otro Lado,” the other side.

A passionate thriller involving intense emotions, jealousy, and blackmail, all set in a context where homosexual relationships are the only logical option and references to heterosexuality are non-existent, perfectly exemplifying the cinematic interests of Els 5 QK's; that is, to contravene the heteronormative nature of commercial cinema by reproducing its forms in a gay context.

A family marked by the Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country: the father was murdered in the bombing of Gernika, and the son by the Francoist police.

Lekeitio is one of the most important fishing villages in the Cantabrian Sea. The film shows the way of life of the sea.

With Franco dead, workers' struggles become more visible, such as the Laforsa strike, a steel mill in Cornellà de Llobregat. Lumbreras's conviction to understand the fight as an always collective action, without hierarchies, meant that she promoted among the workers his own filming, that they had autonomy, in no case imposing any speech (Filmoteca de Catalunya).

Maspalomas, in the south of the Gran Canaria island, as well as an international tourist centre, is also an important agricultural centre dedicated to tomatoes. The lands are cultivated by families from all around the island who work not as salaried workers but as sharecroppers (aparceros). These families, during the seven months that the harvest lasts, live in barracks built by the owners in the same land they cultivate. Between tomatoes, the aparceros cultivate other products for their own food and for their animals. Water is scarce and it's really appreciated. At the end of the harvest, the day of San Fernando, the aparceros celebrate in popular festivities, which include cockfighting and lucha canaria. This documentary was recorded in 1972, but couldn't be shown until the year 1977, as the Franco regime's censorship retained its exhibition permit.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images embedded in the intricacies of Gaudi’s buildings.

A critical portrait of the life of housewives in a patriarchal society.

The portrait of a group of prostitutes trying to cope with their work and life

Shot in 1974 by Danny Lyon and a single audio person, in twenty days in Santa Marta Colombia. The film shows the daily rhythms of a gang of boys who live on the city’s streets. Their survival skills and errant lifestyles are in evidence as they beg for scraps to eat, wheel and deal with storekeepers and street vendors, and play together.

A short documentary about the spanish town of Tomelloso and the hat the villagers use to wear

Recovered Zulueta short.

Narrated report on the neighbourhood struggle in Madrid's suburbs against property speculation, focusing on two forms of protest: murals and banners. Text taken from: La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva

In November 1977 Vídeo-Nou drew up the proposal Projecte inicial d'estudi de les formes de vida i cultura popular als barris de Barcelona, and the Fundació Serveis de Cultura Popular became interested in and supported the initiative. The video Intervention in the neighbourhood of Can Serra (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) was carried out from January to March 1978. Four videos were made as part of the project: Qué viene el metro!, Història Urbanística, Escuela de adultos and El barrio de las fiestas. The video was prepared and produced with the participation of the residents. It presents the process of speculative urban construction of the Can Serra neighbourhood, with interventions by neighbours, architects and local representatives. This video opened the debate on the present and future of the neighbourhood. Video-Nou's intervention in Can Serra was the first attempt to use video as an instrument to dynamise social and community life in Spain.

A thriller of frenetic homosexual tension that broke the rules of space and time during the Barcelona of the Transition.

A mixture of ethnography, ravings and a vampire film, La Umbría tells the story of a family, dressed permanently in black and afflicted by tuberculosis, who live shut away in a mansion in a valley on Gran Canaria (the home of the painter Pepe Dámaso, who directs this film). An immersion in rural life and its people, imbued with extravagant visions midway between auteurist cinema and Hammer productions, ghosts of ancestors, imposing landscapes and impossible soirées.

Festival of Popular Solidarity with Latin America, held on 12 October 1977 at the San Blas football ground (Madrid, Spain)

This short film analyzes the relationship between power, means of production and repression.