Moving Cinema Young Programmers Session

Trompe l’oeil is a style of painting that relies on “tricking the eye” of whoever looks at it. Here is a sample of optical illusions from Madrid: those invented by non-existent windows and skies on walls in the city, and those fabricated by the film camera.

Fragments of a journey in which geographical exploration merges with small emotional outbursts, like the panels of a map folded together, impossible to separate. Berlin, Buenos Aires and the chaotic possibilities of constructing something like a cartography of memories.

Gregoria has a twisted back, strong hands and black fingernails. She lives bent over and needs very little: a patch of land, some recycled plastic boxes and a friendly chat at the end of the afternoon.

A forest starts again. A village recalls the landscape it never managed to see. Hands, hoes and boots that disturb the dry earth to bring to the surface the trees that used to inhabit Ulla. The river is constantly born here and murmurs a now forgotten language. Who will inhabit this forest when it comes to be? Can a forest be planted? Will anyone give it a name? When does a village begin?

The face of a child mesmerized by the glare of a flame in the dark. This piece is part of the Nimbos project, based on the poem of the same title by Xosé María Díaz Castro.