This project is a large whole set: El Maestrat. An area with tradition, customs, language and culture with a rather rural character. In order to build the imaginary of that whole, it would be necessary a series of mechanisms and procedures which would come together thanks to the recovered cinematographic image.
The artistic intervention of images will consist of two parts:
Firstly, an installation-exhibition where images would be absolutely the main characters will take place. With ethnography as a starting point and until reaching a point of experimental cinema, these images confront, complement and associate one another, in order to make a set of pieces or capsules (independent from one another) which will conform the whole intended. The importance of sound in the pieces shall be highlighted (most of the cinematographic material is mute). Therefore, words, songs, traditional music, nature sounds, and other sound elements will complement images in order to create the whole piece.
Secondly, the project is to make a making-of documentary film: a critic reflection of this place using recovered found footage during the whole film. It will intend to make visible the duality of the area (work/party, religion/secularism, tradition/modernity, etc), but also, tradition, rural life, spaces, landscapes, people, customs. Additionally, the sounds in this film will be important: sound elements and voice-over will give a discourse to the piece.
