Movies: Chus Domínguez

‘In the realm of the visible, all epochs coexist fraternally, even if they are separated by centuries or millennia’. John Berger. ‘The third eye turns on a recognition: the Other perceives the veil, the process of being visualized as an object, but ...

The autumn weather in a remote village of Caurel, in the mountains of Lugo, the slow time of the rain, the time to look for the fire......

Villa 31. Buenos Aires is about life in its most physical sense, the life that, despite everything, beats unstoppably in every corner of the planet. It speaks of happiness, suffering, and the learning of both, and takes place, perhaps by chance, in o...

Patricia Lamas, with her generosity and energy, invited us to improvise-play-share at the recently opened creation centre L'animal a la esquena (Celrá, Girona). From that meeting resulted, among others, these improvisations....

Improvisations, performances, experimentations around percussion and sound....

All the rooms of Hostal España, a modest and centrally located establishment in the city of León, are occupied by elderly people, many of them coming from the abandoned rural environment. In its rooms, corridors and dining room, the seasons go by wit...

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It rains. The millstone continues to turn in the mill, tireless. Winter is coming to an end. In the abandoned village, spring plays its way through the fog. Life and death in a land anchored to the sea and the fog, where the past is as present as the...

On his return to his Galician homeland, the poet and storyteller Antón Avilés de Taramancos (1935-1992) sees the parallel stories of his life in Colombia and the history of the American continent intermingled. The uneasiness of a new world and the te...

Words, bleats, smells, looks, patience, flies, barks, cowbells and dust. A story of painted wolves, drivers of livestock after a severe sifting. The skinned sheep that eats and eats, and looks out of the corner of its eye. The cara guarding the borde...

Refilmed scene by scene of the short film "The Perfect Human" (1967), by Jorgen Leth, to resignify from the recognition of diversity and the multiple intertwinings with the body, affective-sexuality and mental health....

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An audiovisual excavation in the mining area of Gordón (León), in the village of Ciñera, affected by the dismantling of the mining industry and the ways of life associated with it. The project has been conceived as a collective work through local gro...

In the Serra da Estrela (Portugal) silence is sometimes broken by the calls (chamamentos) of shepherds to control their flocks of sheep. These sounds are the basis for the sound poet Américo Rodríguez's compositions....

In a peculiar universe that looks much like our own present, the desires, fears and hopes of a group of people fighting to survive a world that appears to be heading towards fascism unfurl. "Ya habremos olvidado" asks La Rara Troupe in this ensemble ...

Within the project “Anatomía poética" (Poetic Anatomy), by Elena Córdoba....

Action/performance: Nilo Gallego Rodríguez and Felipe Quintana Pastrana, with a flock of 200 yearling sheep (6 zumbos (buzzers), 36 long bells, 36 short bells, 48 picks, 48 shears)....

The camera witnesses the preparation, the rehearsals of a play. It captures the faces, the space in which they meet, the voices. It is not about the show, but about the whole creative process that precedes it. Bodies that change, that transform, and ...

Like a notebook on the filmmaker's stay at the Eslava guesthouse in the old quarter of Pamplona, these notes of the ephemeral are filmed as one lives: without turning back, assuming mistakes, looking at fleeting lives that come and go, like notes on ...

The film is based on the oral testimony of Josefa Castro García, recorded in 2013 when she was 90 years old, in which she recounts her life marked by the Civil War and post-war repression. Through her narration, the students with the same age as Jose...