Session 3

No conozco la historia del fuego

Sara Domínguez López, Luis Morla & Alberto Ruiz
Spain, 2022, 26 min, DCP, colour, Spanish
Script Sara Domínguez López, Luis Morla & Alberto Ruiz Directors of photography Sara Monge & Álvaro de Siria. Sound Ángel Rojas. Editor Miguel Ariza

La voz rosa
Marieke Elzerman
Spain-Netherlands, 2002, 26 min, 16 mm to DCP, Spanish and French
Director of photography Artur Pol Cambrubí. Sound design Zita Leemans. Sound Tomás Florez & Isabella Salvo. Music Nikolaï Clavier / International Film Festival Rotterdam

Termites can also grow in film schools. Termites that eat away the boundaries of the documentary, that use what they find on the edges of reality to create something new, to tell it another way.

In 2021, Sara Domínguez López, Luis Morla and Alberto Ruiz made No conozco la historia del fuego as their final project for the diploma in documentary film at ECAM. Named after a verse by Alejandra Pizarnik, the film is surprising precisely because it deals with time suspended in a forest and the stay or fleeting passage through it of some young immigrants; with the relations between the young people and between them and the forest.

In 2022 the Dutch director Marieke Elzerman made La voz rosa as a creative project at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. In it she portrays a young foreign teacher being treated in San Sebastián for her damaged voice. In this process, she goes about the city having revealing encounters with other women who devote their time to her, who show her what they do with their time, helping, sometimes inadvertently, a young teacher to get her voice back.

Miguel Zozaya