Cine de lo real desde Barcelona: espacio, sonido, sugerencia

Abstract

This paper analyzes how space and sound are used by several documentary filmmakers in some of their late works. Although coming from different places, Barcelona is the city where, as many others in the last ten-twelve years, they have found proper environment and conditions for a creative, innovative cinema. A cinema with no boundaries between fiction and non fiction. All of these films tend towards a fragmented narrative and editing style which leaves empty spaces to suggestion. Many of these films, as well, use sound – voice, music, even silence – to add new meanings to images, in a surprising, disturbing or metaphorical way. Films by Jose Luis Guerin, Ricardo Iscar, Mercedes Alvarez, Joaquim Jorda, Ariadna Pujol, Isaki Lacuesta or Lupe Perez, all of them, as well, related to Master de Documental de Creacion in Pompeu Fabra University.