Stop, world

Year 2018

There are no motorways in heaven.  Facebook hasn’t made our society any more free either. There’s still inequality and love survives. The Artic is disappearing. Pollution is killing. Art is evolving. Film streaming doesn’t work. These are not good times for freedom of speech. Half a century after the premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey, humans continue to ask themselves the same questions: Why all of it? Why us?. Disoriented , weak on empathy, in need of answers, the irreducible tribe still needs a dark room, a large screen and company to share the same story with.

LANZAROTE

An island. Sixteen million years. Volcanoes. Unique ecosystems, rare species, an analogue Mars planetarium. 40% protected territory and almost 60,000 inhabitants looking for a new world. A quarter of a century after we became Reserve of the Biosphere, Lanzarote has learnt the meaning of evolution, manipulation, rebellion, knowledge, identity, uncertainty…  We have lived so many adventures like primate David Bowman in  Kubrick’s masterpiece. Nowadays, clapperboards sound on cliffs and the audiovisual culture is one of the economic engines, that will regardless be, social and responsible.

What for? Still photographs of tragedy, comedy and the movie we feature in on Earth.

Why? Because we don’t see the cinema for what it is. We see the cinema that we are.