Spanish Revolution?

David Varela, Flavio G. García, Isaki Lacuesta / Spain / 2013 / 22 min

Spanish with English subtitles

Spanish Revolution? is a series of shorts made by prominent Spanish audiovisual artists, which reflect on recent social movements and their context in an attempt to observe, analyze, and understand a society weakened by the political and financial crisis. The films take a critical and non-complacent view of the crisis, its consequences, and the social responses to them. Together they comprise a highly personal set of views in which risk, humor, experimentation, and creative subjectivity join hands.

This collection of shorts has been made possible thanks to DOCMA Asociación de Cine Documental (www.docma.es). Special thanks to Andrea Guzmán.

Monumental History of Modern-Day Spain (Historia Monumental de la España Contemporánea), by David Varela
Spain / 2013 / 7 min
Some long steps towards today.

Video-Dérives: Sol, by Flavio G. García
Spain / 2011 / 5 min
An exploration of how citizens register images during social protests. A work shot during the May 15th events initiated by the Real Democracy Now movement in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, also known as the Spanish Revolution.

The Killing of the Pig (La Matança Del Porc), by Isaki Lacuesta
Spain-USA / 2012 / 10 min
A moral portrait of Barcelona and, by extension, Spain in the year 2012. It is the story of a real-estate consultant and an amateur filmmaker who, in the 1970s, fought for democracy and who now thinks it has been perverted and manipulated. He sharpens his claws and plans a couple of alternatives that could put an end to a crisis “created for us by bankers and profiteers.”

This collection of shorts is available for purchase as part of the DVD compilation Spain in Crisis: A Collective Response.

About the Directors
David Varela shoot in 2008 the feature film Banaras Me and the shorts Solitude – Dawn nº 1.856280, No Men´s Children, and Last Portrait, traveling with them to a large number of international film festivals. His next feature film, The Miracle, is currently in the editing stage.
Flavio G. García is an independent filmmaker from Spain, now living in Berlin. He studied in Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM). He makes non-fiction and fiction experimental movies, often with small formats like cell phones.
Isaki Lacuesta (Gerona, 1975) is one of the most original and important Catalan filmmakers working today. Although a documentarian by training, his films include touches straight out of fiction and an original and fascinating fusion of genres and languages. A complete retrospective of his work, “Swimming in a Sea of Images: The Cinema of Isaki Lacuesta” was organized in collaboration by the Ramon Llull Institute, Catalan Films, and the University Pompeu in 2011. The event included Lacuesta’s documentaries, narratives, and short films. Among other projects, Lacuesta is currently developing a television comedy series.

Lacuesta’s feature The Double Steps (2011) was awarded the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival. His documentary El Cuaderno de Barro (2011) received a Golden Medal at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programs (FIPA) in Biarritz. His film La Leyenda del Tiempo (2006) was recognized as the Best Spanish Film of the Year by the Catalan Critics Association.

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