Trinta lumes

"In her debut feature, Diana Toucedo embarks on an exercise of transmutation of filmic material, until she obtains a unique object emerging from the mix of what could well have been two films governed, a priori, by very different generic laws. In this operation of alchemical dyes, the work of the editor Ana Pfaff, who along with the Galician filmmaker - also seasoned in the science of editing - achieve a journey that begins as ethnographic documentary - the review of daily tasks of the inhabitants of the small village of O Courel - and it happily finishes in the fantastic (Gothic references included). We are not, however, faced with a linear movement, but throughout the footage the viewer's eyes move from one coordinate to another, attracted by the magnetism of images that make mythology, the legendary, emanate from the landscape and, finally, becomes a fundamental testimony to the disappearance of a way of life. ENRIC ALBERO