Descartes

Descartes is a film essay born after a long research on the documentary film Rocío (1980) by Fernando Ruiz Vergara, judicially censored in Spain in the 1980s for pointing out one of those responsible for fascist crimes in Andalusia during the Spanish Civil War.

Synopsis: In 2016, a search in Filmoteca Española for information for a research on the documentary film Rocío, which had been censored in the early 1980s. Among the materials deposited in its warehouses were 260 rolls of 16 mm negative. They were the discards of the editing, footage that was left out of the final version. The forgotten images of a banned film come to life on the screen after forty years.