Programme 4
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The image of a calf suckling milk from the teats of its mother cow crystallises the metaphor that moves the cinema-diary of Rocío Montaño: the bonds of friendship, kinship and neighbourhood that knit our shared foundations. La casa y el ternero consists of faces, always filmed in company. Surrounded by her closest people or complete strangers, Rocío Montaño observes and captures her surroundings over the course of eight months with a speed and hunger for life that never stops. Full of youth, friendships, festivities, walks, uncertainty and collective manifestation, the film underlines the urgency of a day-to-day existence that joyfully resists the onslaught of precariousness and political misery. Her own experiences and those of others overlap in the superimposition of shots and the brevity of scenes. From this lightning fast succession of moments, one’s gaze settles on and rescues the restful images from among the commotion. With grace and self-confidence, the image stutters, closes in and moves away, always nervously seeking the best detail. Anna Brufau |
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