A garden of shadows

The Font Bover family spends the day at the beach. Available on YouTube

A whole garden grows from old letters, recipes, notes...

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Japanese poems known as “Haiku”.

Far from his home, locked in a room in Edinburgh, a young man writes down all the names of women that he can find in the pages of his books with the desire to evoke through them the face of his idyllic beloved woman.

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war.

"Trànsit" is a journey through a city that never lets us stay. Between the noise of the subway and the silence of empty streets, the short film captures the feeling of not belonging to any neighborhood, of living always in transit.

In June 2024, the photographer María Cano presented a series of pictures in the window of "Es Mirador", in Set Cantons street in Palma (Mallorca). One night I was walking around the area with my little camera and decided to record the Maria's work and the space around it. The photographs in the window showed disjointed figures and faces that seemed to come out of a nightmare. Every one of them gave me a feeling of terrible anxiety. They were faces, hands and metaphorical cries that denounced a problem that affects a large part of the young population: the problem of housing. With these recordings as a starting point, I began to make this audiovisual piece.

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema, time, cities, and sharing memories with our loved ones.

"Mestre-espenya" is a self-portrait of Guillermo Amengual where he talks and thinks about his childhood and all the themes that have always been present in his life and films: death, family and innocence.

20 years have passed since Ulysses went to fight in the Trojan War. Now he's considered lost and deceased. In Itaca, his homeland, his old dog Argos awaits his owner, wondering if he'll ever come back.

War and violence. Among all, the birht of cinema. After all, war and violence. "The wind blows wherever it pleases." (John 3:8)

"The tits of Juliet, the balls of the bull" explores —through the editing of social media footage— the collective act of touching public statues, particularly on their intimate parts, and everything this gesture reveals about contemporary culture.

The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has been portrayed in the history of cinema.

A collage of images, thoughts and letters that seek to find the meaning of "ugliness" seen through time. The film pays an homage to Jean-Luc Godard's film-collages such as "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1988-1998) and "The image book" (2018) using different sources from film and literature to create a discourse about ugliness.

Amidst the tumult of the city, a man and a woman talk about the past of their hometown, the paths they have taken in life and the hope for a better future.

“A Reflected Story” is fragmented into five short tales that reveal the need to reflect on how our lives are sustained by the cult to images and the representation of a world in decline.