n the Crack Between Reality and Representation

The cinema of Víctor Erice and José Luis Guerin inhabits the crack that opens up between reality and representation: both of them understand that to film is to approach the real without controlling it, without taming it. At a time when political and economic powers manipulate reality through disinformation and disorientation, their films represent a searching that illuminates and mitigates the uncertainty of our days. Their creative silences reveal a resistance, a denial in the face of constant output, so that their vision proposes a radical response to the continual acceleration to which the world is being driven. Thus, the work of both these film-makers opens up a space for questioning, doubt and critical awareness in our complex times.