"Flights…One of the most import ports in Spain. People… Antxo, Donibane, San Pedro. Homes with tradition, parties, streets, port workers, women salting fish, mending fishing nets…" Javier Aguirre
One of our part of the sculptural and pictorial work of Gerardo Rueda, they inspire sequences of different and opposite times, from the slow camera movements with which wooden constructions are treated to the liveliness of the rhythms achieved with brightly colored surfaces.
The daily life of the monks in the Trappist monastery located in La Oliva (Navarra). Through the statements of some of the members of this community - the doorman brother, the father prior, the poet ... - we attend their prayers but also work: laundry, bakery, tailoring, masonry, bookbinding...
"I consider that Espacio dos and Tiempo dos must be considered as important works . Moreover, I affirm that, together with Tierra sin pan and Cuenca, it is the only truly important thing that has been done in Spain within the documentary genre." Javier Sagastizábal
"The universe is rotary, circular, spherical, round ... / ... The street of our planet = three dimensions. The kinetic = Two dimensions. Analogous to the real, to the law of Universal gravitation." Maruja Mallo
"Toros tres as Pasajes tres, also bases his visual game on a counterpoint. Toros de Guisando, Goya, Picasso, in a way, they come to tell the story of the people who have been contemplating them through the centuries ... / ... I would say that more than a story of bulls, this excellent short film is...
Eusebio Sempere's work serves as the basis for transforming it into movement and rhythms that are implicit in his own visual arts, but which can only be converted into another dimension other than the sculptural-pictorial through cinema.
"The film as a whole tries to ensure that the image has no sound and the sound has no image so that the viewer is the one who re-elaborates in his mind the fusion of both." Javier Aguirre
In 2022, the original negative of the film Javier Aguirre created in 1973 was found. It had never been shown, due to the threat of censorship, which had already targeted his short film Che Che Che. Aguirre himself had written in the label Manifiesto Horizontal. It is the Communist Manifest written...
"Tiempo de playa" above all. There is my whole world, all my sensitivity, all my now frustrated adolescent desire. It seems as if a time were repeating to me where the shore was not a limit and where fantastic Grandville landscapes were built on the sand. All the beaches in the world are...
