Memorias de ultramar (Overseas Memories)

The last session of the series concludes with Memorias de ultramar, a documentary made with images shot by families who lived in the colonies, provinces and territories under Spanish domination between 1940 and 1975. Based on the consultation of collections deposited in Filmoteca Española, Filmoteca de Valencia, Filmoteca de Navarra, Filmoteca de Andalucía and Filmoteca Canaria, the film mobilizes these films from the domestic and family archive and activates them in order to reflect on the privileges and lifestyles of Spanish colonists during the territorial domination of Morocco, Sahara and Equatorial Guinea. The montage respects the unity of the family collections but combines them to articulate an audiovisual essay that questions our relationship with colonialism.

Synopsis: Memorias de ultramar is a succession of snapshots of those who move to another country and set up their new home. The album turns its pages and at certain moments the projection stops, the editor rewinds, enlarges, analyzes and looks for echoes within the familiar material. What themes are repeated? How are nature, work, women, raw materials filmed? What is the position of the other in the frame? Is there any trace of colonialism in the domestic images? [Source: Filmoteca Española].