Para Sonia

Portales follows the course of the Guadalete river in Cádiz, Spain: a catalogue of landscapes that hide other landscapes. A collection of inter-dimensional portals (and postcards). Live action and animation fuse, creating an impossible fauna and flora.

The filmed inventory of a private collection, which can be seen as a dubious art collection, but also as a compilation like those usual in stamp collecting and archeology. Also as a series of objects and documents in the style of memento samples. The emotional catalogue of a life becomes, at the same time, a collectible item in itself.

Fruits are one of the good things in life. This film is dedicated to their tanginess and sweetness, a jumpy animation of fruits dancing to the rhythm of the song “El mango” by the Venezuelan singer Jesús Sevillano.

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Gualterius built a monastery in Valdediós in the 13th century. In Valdediós, there is a wall, there is a horse, there is a path, there is a whole universe. Shot in Super 8 around the Monastery of Santa María de Valdediós in Asturias, the film combines that footage with painted animation and stop-motion collages.

Part of the performance Curso de pintura rápida para principiantes

Elena Duque, Spain, 2016, video without sound, 3 minutes and 40 seconds. A series of animated postcards from Galicia: the white galleries and buildings of A Coruña, the Coruña Marina and its boats, and the nineteenth-century theme park El Pasatiempo en Betanzos.

A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the "s8" boom of the 1970s discuss their work and their first encounters with the medium.

Completed in 2024. 40 sec, Super 8

A film about the salty Galician sea, accompanied by a medley of barely remembered Asturian sailor songs from a tape by the Luanco’s Bajamar Choir.

The Guadalquivir River complained one morning / I have to decide between Seville and Triana and I don't know how to choose / Oh, if only I could melt mint and cinnamon into one perfume! (“The River of My Seville”, Lole and Manuel)

A leftovers film. Croquette of own and other's super 8 collected over the years and ordered according to color tones and autobiographical adventures. The result of cutting and splicing pieces of film as a soothing action. -ED