THE FIG, THE SPINE, THE SHIELD

Adrian Schindler & Eulàlia Rovira
His projects, which are often collaborative, take the form of performances, videos, installations, publications, as well as public encounters. This work in progress session will begin with a screening of his short film, The Fig, the Spine, the Shield co-directed in 2020 with Eulàlia Rovira. Adrian Schindler will then discuss his first feature film, currently in development: Through the prism of the ghost, this film seeks out the traces that the colonial past in Morocco has left on Spanish society, both in cultural production, public space and in the collective imagination. The film will be shot between Barcelona (in particular La Plaça Tetuan), Madrid (Tetuán de las Victorias’s neighborhood) and Tetouan (the Espanol cinema) in a choral manner with a group of actors, researchers and activists from both Morocco and Spain, encouraging a polyphonic critical space as well as the emergence of other forms of narratives.