El día que tal

Audiovisual album formed by eight cortumetraxes in which the Francoist repression in Ribeseya was conceived. A review of testimonials, historical research and archivu documentation.

I have searched for the traces and memories of my relatives in the places where they were after being repressed by Franco’s regime. I found myself on the borders, in the fields and in prisons with their history [and mine] suspended between the cracks, like ancient paintings that emerge after burning a church. Within the archive, the family and the audience, the images are once again looked at and the documents read. All of this has built an intergenerational bridge that unites me with my grandmother and her mother.

When Rodrigo was a child, he would eat at his grandmother Marité's house and wait until his aunt Montse came home from work. Without sitting down, Montse would fill a plastic bag with a loaf of bread, a container of food, empty plastic bottles, and a hot brick wrapped in newspaper. She was going to take the food to someone. One day, she decided to take Rodrigo with her on one condition: no talking. Eighteen years later, he remembers nothing.

We live with artificial lighting as if we wanted to completely banish the darkness. The exponential increase in light sources, driven by LED technology, has intensified an environmental problem known as light pollution. In recent years, numerous scientific studies have analyzed its harmful effects on living beings, revealing that the alteration of natural light cycles interferes with the development of animals and plants, in addition to affecting the circadian rhythm in humans among other issues. An example of organisms harmed by this reality, in addition to environmental pollution, are fireflies. It is increasingly difficult to have the opportunity to see the bioluminescence of these insects. Our artificial lights displace your natural ones.