These films build on an early image or idea, often conjuring a meditative state.
** All film programs during Engauge 2021 include a virtual filmmaker Q&A that is free to view through the festival’s Vimeo page. Whether you experience the festival in person or at home, check in afterwards to hear from the filmmakers! **
My grandfather made a film in 1926 about his (unfinished) village project Les Fonts. In this piece he used some fragments of the enclosures where roses were grown (respecting the original intertitles of his fim). The bourgeois women of my family are depicted as happily domesticated as "roses among roses," because men did the important things and inherited the land. The women of their time were raised like flowers: they had to be educated, fine, and kind to serve the taste of men in power. They could not get out of the margin if they did not want to be marginalized. In this piece, I contrast images filmed during the confinement of the streets of Les Fonts, where no one cut the weeds and flowers grew on the sidelines of the roads. A parody, a game of contrasts: cultivated flowers, domesticated to serve the patriarchy, and wild flowers, free in thought.
- Year2021
- Runtime3 minutes
- Languagen/a
- CountrySpain
- DirectorRrose Present
These films build on an early image or idea, often conjuring a meditative state.
** All film programs during Engauge 2021 include a virtual filmmaker Q&A that is free to view through the festival’s Vimeo page. Whether you experience the festival in person or at home, check in afterwards to hear from the filmmakers! **
My grandfather made a film in 1926 about his (unfinished) village project Les Fonts. In this piece he used some fragments of the enclosures where roses were grown (respecting the original intertitles of his fim). The bourgeois women of my family are depicted as happily domesticated as "roses among roses," because men did the important things and inherited the land. The women of their time were raised like flowers: they had to be educated, fine, and kind to serve the taste of men in power. They could not get out of the margin if they did not want to be marginalized. In this piece, I contrast images filmed during the confinement of the streets of Les Fonts, where no one cut the weeds and flowers grew on the sidelines of the roads. A parody, a game of contrasts: cultivated flowers, domesticated to serve the patriarchy, and wild flowers, free in thought.
- Year2021
- Runtime3 minutes
- Languagen/a
- CountrySpain
- DirectorRrose Present