Evacuación

As they travel through the Isle of Bioko, Antonia tells Pilar stories related to the Spanish colonial past. Carlos spends a hot summer afternoon in 2011 with his family. José and Diana talk about the future.

MATERIAL 1. adj. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary. 2. adj. Derived from or composed of matter. 3. adj. Having material or physical form or substance. 4. adj. Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case. 5. adj. Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being. 6. adj. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests. 7. n. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers. 8. n. Things needed for doing or making something. 9. n. Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form. 10. n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

1. n. A travelling company of enterteniers such as acrobats, clowns, trapeze artistes, and trained animals. 2. n. A public performance given such a company. 3. n. An oval or circular arena, usuallytented and surrounded by tiers of seats, in which such a performances is held. 4. n. A travlling group of prefessional sportsmen.

Four iconic sequences in the history of Spanish cinema are aesthetically revisited. A strictly geographical search that places the camera in the very same spots where the shots of the original films were taken. No lighting. No audio edition. No actors. Just whatever there is fron of the camera.

An unfinished canvas apparently painted by Antonio López resists (does it?) the charges of weather and nature during a whole week. This week is shown four times from four different audiovisual perspectives which try to analyze the relationship between film author and landscape representation.

Tourist Route, Madrid.

Summer afternoon.