This space is devoted to old and new failure projects.
Somehow the things that never came true have seeds that could be followed in other works. I still find most of them attracting enough. Furthermore, I can see now that what I've been driven by is some kind of madness (an authentic gene). I don't know if it is going to give me a well defined evolutionary advantage or just keep me working in something ridiculous (as my mother says). Drawing and painting is funny and quick. I mean... you see it done in days. The problem with animation and film is that sometimes you have to keep on doing it for years...
Famine in Rome, 1998.
I've done a couple of scripts (Vikings and The dead woman were actually finished). Yet the one I would like to see done is Famine in Rome. It is the first chapter of a collection of pseudo-documentaries that uses the narrative grammar of documentaries and exploits the ability of images to convince and create a discourse full of expectations. In the images we see the city of Rome in great decline and depression.
We use interviews, visits to markets, factories, neighborhoods... all of the places immersed in a situation of chaos and poverty that reminds us of a city of the third world. The peculiarity is that the documentary would be recorded in the city of Barcelona, with a minimum of artifacts or effects. I was planning to use the city for the rest of the chapters as well.
The Weirdos Project, 1998.
The Museum of Weirdois a 5-minute pseudo documentary introducing several people that build unconventional and home-made electronic musical instruments. Those are based on cultural and philosophical beliefs and their radically different nexus is the enormous energy they put into all these musical activities (I promise to find the old VHS tape and upload it as soon as possible).
Roskilde project, 1999.
It was a video installation with a room full of human-like figures (the same that appear in one of the video projections, with the dogs). Those figures are made of rubber and are dressed with the kind of suits used by people working with wild dogs (for protection).
The visitors also wear one of these protection-suits. One of the figures is an actor that holds a camcorder. Another actor tells orders to the visitors to imitate the movements of saints (the one depicted in barrocan painting). As I said, one of the video projectors shows the recording of dogs on one wall and the opposite one the acting of the visitors (in the last years I've learned how to use Photoshop, After effects and Cinema 4D, so I can create better modelings).
The New Science Magazine,2001.
It is an animation show discussing on topics like the mental control supposedly carried out by insects (and other micro bugs). It was a projected series of mini 7-minute-long programmes. In each chapter, a professor presents, according to the traditional format of debate documentary, a series of recordings on the life of insects and other micro-beings (fish, microbes, birds, rodents…), followed by comments taken in the street from the public. The 2-D animation was supposed to be done with cut-outs from newspapers and encyclopedias, blended with real image (puppets and real people).
Darkness/a oscuridade, 2007.
Darkness is a feature film project that I helped to develop, written by mastermind Joe Cebolla. As you can see, the project in that section is not mature by now. I hope it will reach a new phase soon.
