Director’s Notes

”The day came alone” arises from my daily activity that takes shape like a trickle. The project is an invitation to reflect on contemporary ways of narrating memory based on collage, fragmentation and intertextuality as a form of altered reality.

There is a first layer represented by rotating structures that move domestic objects and that, in their turns, act like clocks, drawing fragments of time in space. This is the idea of home and the way in which time becomes familiar and monotonous. In a second layer, two actresses emerge in a dreamlike and random state; to all this is added a third layer of inconsequential moments: views of interiors and landscapes, routine details where our imagination is suspended in a moment of emptiness.

My creative method is not linear. At first, it is made up of flashes and thought-images. I need a continuous prowling around the places where I imagine the film. In these walks emerge apparitions, and even nonsensical things, that are shaping something that is elusive but that is enclosed within the location. I must say that, in my case, the places are as important as the characters. I don’t understand how one street and not another activates me to film a scene. The editing process is similar to the construction of an object. The meaning of the project must appear as a meeting of things that were always there.

Director Bio

Gonzalo Puch, Sevilla 1950.

I started late as a painter and had my first solo exhibition at the age of 35 at the La Maquina Española gallery, later the Pepe Cobo gallery. Soon after I left painting to work with photography and installation. My preferences gradually covered a wider space and I became interested in theater and contemporary dance. In the midst of all this, the practice of video, photography and performative actions are my main activity. Soon after I left painting to work with photography and installation. My preferences gradually covered a wider space and I became interested in theater and contemporary dance. In the midst of all this, the practice of video, photography and performative actions are my main activity.

Filmografía del director

2008 Julia. 1´16´´
2011 Next cyclone in the Paradise office. 5´58´´
2012 Pato Rojo-Violín Verde.10´44´´
2013 Arbol talado por el sonido del mar. 11´08´´
2016 Matterhorn. 7´09´´
2017 Woman machine. 6´05´´
2018 Cosas que sucedieron. 9´33´´
2019 El mundo cuando era aquello. 11´59´´
2020 Algún instante futuro pronto o tarde 5´54´´
2022 El día vino solo 20´20´´

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