San Simón 62

Punto de Vista hosts the world premiere of San Simón 62, Irati Gorostidi and Mirari Echávarri's project selected as the winner of X Films 2021.

San Simón 62

Irati Gorostidi, Mirari EchávarriÇ
Spain, 2022, DCP, colour, Basque-Spanish.

In the 80s a monastery in Lizaso (Navarra) housed the eccentric Arco Iris (Rainbow) community. The building's anodyne walls were decorated with enormous floral motifs and its halls hosted large gatherings to experiment with new age-style cathartic practices. Today the building is home to a closed community of monks and that episode has left almost no traces. The authors of San Simón 62 go there following the testimony of their mothers who, trying to cast off the after-effects of the Franco dictatorship and deal with the personal and political challenges of this new period in Spanish history, spent time in the Arco Iris community.

Image, sound, production: Irati Goristidi, Mirari Echávarri. Edited by: Mirari Echávarri, Irati Gorostidi, Ainara Elgoibar, Usue Arrieta. Sound postproduction: Xanti Salvador

Selected filmography:
Mirari Echávarri: San Simón 62 (2021), Cuerpos #1 Santa Águeda (2017)
Irati Goristidi: San Simón 62 (2022), Unicornio (2021), OT-IL (2020), Euritan (2017), Pasaia Bitartean (2016)