Una Historia de Invierno
(A Winter Story)

There is an old man. His tired hands pluck the feathers off a chicken and throw them into a bucket. Time passes slowly but without stopping. There is a window, a dog, a photograph. There is a clock, a lit fireplace, a spider. The water drips in the dark well. White landscape out of the bedroom; sometimes it's daytime, sometimes it's night. The spider eats a fly. Tick-tock, tick-tock, sings the clock. The dog opens her eyes and struggles to survive. Tick-tock, tick-tock. The bucket gets filled with feathers. Crack, crack, the fire slowly dies.

"Una Historia de Invierno"  [A Winter Story] is a 30 minutes video in which I try to represent the heavy notion of time and loss. I return to the small village in Spain where my family grew up and sadly observe the disappearance of these villages as people moved away to
the city. The ruins seem like fossils of our history.

I see my video as homage to my roots and my grandparents.



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