The fragility of Memory
SPAIN | Monday, 31 August 2015 | Views [236] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
When I was 15 years old, I took my father's video camera with the aim to show the world how urban growth was destroying the natural forest of my region. After I will filmed how the machines started to build big houses in the outskirts of my town. Since that day, I started to film any thing I had on my mind, even art, movies, documentaries, etc. But my education was not film studies: I chose History in the University. And after, I did a MA in Archaeology and Heritage. I travelled all over the world, filming and digging, both my passions.
I always have filmed peoples in its environments, and that made me to do audiovisual ethnographies, about archaeologists and people in its countries. I think people lives not only for subsist. People lives to follow the path which its ancestors did for them; we only are the shadow of the memory, and we need remember from where we come to be light for the future generations. Culture and memory are civilization, are life. We, as documentarists, can't show this face of Society in all its extension: we need to be more. Archaeologists, anthropologists... With a huge vision, our work not only will be show the people how that persons from far away lives, but also our work will serve to science, and better: to make memory to the future, and protect the basis of our essence, that is the heritage of our ancestors. As astronomers looking at the stars, we can see how people see its nature in the trace of its Past.
At least, thats is my road.
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