‘Les delícies’ of Pau de Nut
In a dusty corner of the bar Cafè de les Delícies, in the Rambla del Raval of Barcelona, you can find one of those old jukeboxes. I do not know if it still works, but in any case that kind of contraption reinforces the vintage decoration of the bar. But that does not effect the […]
Deltebre Dansa, the documentary
To launch the documentary La ciutat efímera (The ephemeral city), director Albert Vidal has had to became an orchestra man: recording images and controlling the unstable focus of his Cannon 5D camera, supervising the sound to avoid distortion while skillfully maintaining a diagonal axis with the interviewees. And that has been done with very little […]
That wasn’t a simple case of chickenpox
The Arab Spring outbreak surprised us because of our widespread ignorance of history. As happens many other conflicts, we wanted to find out the immediate causes for revolutions that had deeper roots. “The riots did not come out of nowhere, like a case of chickenpox. Behind them lies a story of struggle for real change […]
The best year of my life
A I left the city of Le Puy en Velay (Haute-Loire, France) just six years ago this week. The 12 months I spend there were one of the most intense periods of my life. I’m often think about that experience: wandering up the steep street that leads to the cathedral, visiting the huge sculpture of […]