Synopsis:
Barcelona 2004. In an old industrial neighbourhood, currently inactive, bulldozers and speculators are getting down to business. This is a film about disemboweled territory: an enormous building site, from which extravagant towers and buildings emerge pell mell.
Notes on the making of the film:
Although taking strictly documentary raw material (shot in the streets of the old industrial neighbourhood of Poblenou, Barcelona) as a starting point, the film itself is not a documentary. Cinematographic artifice (mise-en-scene) permits me to recompose urban geography according to my own stylistic preferences; to submit reality to my own subjective vision; a tactic similiar to that used in my "film essay" on Berlin (Soliloque 2/la barbarie - Soliloquy 2/barbarity, 1982). This personal vision not only gives viewers an insight into a very specific and concrete situation (the entire reconstruction and reallocation of a neighbourhood in Barcelona), it also makes it possible for them to grasp the broader implications of my subject matter.
1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
Digital file on server (PAL) |
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screen |
4/3 (single screen) |
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speed |
25 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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original language |
French & Spanish |
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rental fee |
101,00 € |
