Laura Ginès

Ferida arrel: Maria-Mercè Marçal

"Ferida arrel MMM" is a collective film around the figure of the Catalan poet Maria Mercè Marçal composed by filmmakers of different generations who deep into her life and work with the intention of reflect the construction of female identity. But isn't just a simple tribute to Mercè, is also a mirror in which the directors experience their own reflection from Marçal views and proposals. A poet, translator, teacher, feminist, intellectual, mother... crossed in the mirror for multiple (re) construct a genealogy of women in pictures. A mirror identified as a woman and artist who talks about motherhood, language, female body, memory, popular tradition, nature, art, lesbian love, disease, death.

Dramatis Personae

I’m Afraid

The artist brings her skill in illustration and collage to this feminist music video for singer Maria Rodés.

How to Draw Sad Animals or Notebook of All the Living and Dead Things That I Imagined the Night You Went Away Forever

A project that plays at being a bestiary, but also a diary, but also a tragic tale. Film made by manipulating Super8mm footage, Cinexin tapes and drawings without fate nor destiny.

A Vocabulary for the Future

Ferida arrel: Maria-Mercè Marçal

"Ferida arrel MMM" is a collective film around the figure of the Catalan poet Maria Mercè Marçal composed by filmmakers of different generations who deep into her life and work with the intention of reflect the construction of female identity. But isn't just a simple tribute to Mercè, is also a mirror in which the directors experience their own reflection from Marçal views and proposals. A poet, translator, teacher, feminist, intellectual, mother... crossed in the mirror for multiple (re) construct a genealogy of women in pictures. A mirror identified as a woman and artist who talks about motherhood, language, female body, memory, popular tradition, nature, art, lesbian love, disease, death.

Dramatis Personae

I’m Afraid

The artist brings her skill in illustration and collage to this feminist music video for singer Maria Rodés.

How to Draw Sad Animals or Notebook of All the Living and Dead Things That I Imagined the Night You Went Away Forever

A project that plays at being a bestiary, but also a diary, but also a tragic tale. Film made by manipulating Super8mm footage, Cinexin tapes and drawings without fate nor destiny.

A Vocabulary for the Future