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Session 6
Session 6 // 89’
To conclude the program, we will enter a sensory journey of sounds, images and colours away from urban life. Through endearing characters, the documentary takes us through the emptied rural environment. MARCH 16 TUESDAY Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
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Meseta Juan Palacios
Meseta
Juan Palacios
2019 // Documentary // Spain
Somewhere on the Spanish plateau, a sheepherder dreams of traveling to Titicaca, a retired musical duo recalls its golden age, two girls search for Pokemon with no luck, and a grandfather counts the empty houses of the town to fall asleep. The characters in this film appear as the geographical features of a territory whose culture and lifestyle seem to fade away over time. That territory is the true protagonist of this story. In an almost surrealistic observational tone, Meseta takes the form of a mapfilm that travels through the past, present and futureof the Spanish countryside. A sensory journey through the landscapeof an empty Spain.
• ZINEBI Networking 2018 • CPH:DOX, Dinamarca, 2019 • Pesaro Film Festival, Italia, 2019 • Film Fest Gent, Bélgica, 2019 • Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, 2019 • Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona, L’Alternativa -
Cinema Main Competition, 2019 • MCIP - Muestra Internacional de Cine de Palencia, 2020 • FICG – Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara.
Sección Oficial. México, 2020 • MAJORDOCS - Festival de Cine
Documental Creativo, 2020
MARCH 16
Tuesday | 7:00pm Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
TECHNICAL SHEET Documentary, 89’ Script and direction: Juan Palacios Production: Ainhoa Andraka, Zuri Goikoetxea, Cristina Hergueta Director of photography, editing: Juan Palacios Live sound: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Rubén Cuñarro, Alberto Peláez, Julio Arenas, Juan Palacios Sound design: Xabier Erkizia Production Company: Doxa Producciones Co-producers Juan Palacios, Jabuba Films Distribution in Spain: Atera Films
OV. Original version (Spanish)
doxaproducciones.com/ peliculas/meseta aterafilms.com/es/catalogo/ meseta
«Meseta is a walk that immerses the five senses of the viewer in uninhabited rural Castile. Between each of the landscape frames lies a critique that calls for the abandonment of rural life. Without a doubt, it is a claim showing its best face».
Lucía Blazquez (Cinemagavia, October 2020)
Juan Palacios, with a degree in Environmental Sciences and Audiovisual Communication, is a filmmaker who lives and works in Amsterdam. His work is found between the essay film, the observational documentary, the field notebook and the experiment. With a special predilection for the borders between human culture and nature, he uses images of a factual world without apparent staging to create an alternative universe. His first feature film Pedaló won the Irizar Award at the 2016 San Sebastián Film Festival and the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Bushwick Film Festival in New York in 2017. His second feature film Meseta premiered at the CPH: DOX del 2019 where it was awarded an Honorable Mention and won the Grand Jury and Young Jury awards in the international new cinema competition at the Pesaro Film Festival 2019.
