A quem se lhe (split screen) ( Alberte Pagán, 2011)
What is left of all this Some physical and psychological, individual and collective remains here and there. A quem se lhe conte has no text (besides some graffiti and signs) because the images must speak for themselves. Landscape is the repository of history (and of the story) in various degrees. We have the immediate image (tar on rocks) and we also have the faded graffiti on the walls that tell us about past events. And we also have the cleaning squads, with their double function: as cleaning volunteers, independent of power, and as a symbol of popular indignation and political activism. The cleaning squads are simultaneously an image of the ecological catastrophe (perhaps the most recognizable icon of those black months) and a consequence of previous events (the oil spillage). A quem se lhe conte is a film on the footprints of history in reality: tar on the rocks, faded graffiti on the walls; reality as a palimpsest. More info:
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