Film Info
El cuaderno de barro

Film Information

Exhibition Title	El cuaderno de barro
Original Title	El cuaderno de barro
English Title	The Clay Diaries
Director	Isaki Lacuesta
Countrys
Year	2011
Format	HD
Colour	Color
Duration	60'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Miquel Barceló, Josef Nadj, Alain Mahe, Amon Pegnere Dolo, Amassagou Dolo

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta
Fotografía / Cinematography: Diego Dussuel
Edición / Editing: Lupe Pérez García
Producción / Producer: Luisa Matienzo, Dan Wechsler
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Tusitala P.C., Bord Cadre Films, TVE

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Synopsis

More than twenty years ago, Spanish painter Miquel Barceló drove a van through the Sahara desert. By the end of his journey, his art and his life had changed, and he decided to set up his workshop on the high ground of the Dogón Country. There, he learned how to work among termites and scorpions, and fast before the heat would dry out the paint and the wind would throw the canvases. The fruits of this phase are known worldwide, but his African shop has stayed as an almost impenetrable stronghold. In order to get a sense of the artist’s private life in Africa, we usually had to check the photographs, or the journals in which Barceló describes life in the desert. Now, at last, the artist opens up his Gogolí workshop to a film crew: the one of Los pasos dobles. And as we see him at work, performing Paso doble together with choreographer Josef Nadj, or simply his everyday life, we suddenly understand that the usual analysis –the influence of Pollock, bull fighting, etc.– is not enough: landscapes, people, and the Dogón cosmogony are continuously reverberating in Barceló’s work (and life).