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Spaces which talks about characters

By Ignacio Oliva

MANUELA AND JAIME´S PLACE, A NORMAL LIFE.

MANUELA and JAIME have an ordinary life, they share a ruled, well-ordered and harmonic space, which has been created by a a single mother who raise her son alone.

MANUELA shows details of her personal formation coming from a "good family", about her artistic concerns, perhaps, a little extravagant at sometimes. So his house is not the house of a supermarket cashier.

Comfortable space, uncluttered, small amount of accessories, some of them, even, have been made, re-invented or re-cycled by her.

DANIEL, VERTICAL SPACE, SPACE WITHOUT MEMORY.

DANIEL lives in a space without memory or personal references. He is a man with no inner life and he is part of a anonymous and temporary territory with white walls. It is cleaned and ordered, a prison, an essential space. There are no books, no pictures, no photos. He has a Jewish candelabrum with seven arms to put ties. A simple table for writing. He writes, sometimes, on cards, with very small letters and green ink. On the table there may be some cards with some type of annotations. It can be said that that there is a person who "does nothing". He has the nihilism of Bartleby, his behavior is hypnotized by its austerity, his lack of mystery. Building a space with vertical tendency. 

MANUELA, HORIZONTAL SPACE, SPACE OF IDEAS.

MANUELA (alone). She inhabits a space that identifies her: complex, chaotic, contradictory mixture of references, and it is related to their obsessions. There are images, things that have been found, accumulated unopened letters, books, and films. It is the house of a creative person with  high level of knowledges.

MANUELA lives in a horizontal space, a little Zen, all things are on the ground or at low altitude.

MANUELA can usually receive or buy specialized art magazines and she hangs images that sometimes she looks at. MANUELA is not a distracted woman. She hates entertainment and she is obsessive, passionate and visceral.

MANUELA has a black floor room where she gets barefoot and where she works and she likes to be "registered".

One day, MANUELA wrote the following sentence: "I have decided to burn down my house and my hours to create and live a hell" and clicked it on the wall. We do not know really why.

MANUELA space is a space of ideas.  

SINESIO, MEETING SPACE, DRAMA´S CHARACTER

"LA PROMENADE DE VENUS" is another character in the film that welcomes voices, glories and miseries, the daily lives of a group of people and it looks at their final destination.

The surrealism of "The Promenade ..." is a metaphor for life´s position and a provocation. It is a place where SINESIO spends alone much of his own time. There are books all over the place which people can read. SINESIO is ordered man, he is essential, sarcastic and hopeless.

We must create a place with a special grammar which is related to a solitary race, rootless and nihilistic man.

We could say that bar is an extension of himself. 

Ignacio Oliva, screenwriter and director

Ideas for Manuela

By Javier Gerada

Javier Gerada, Art Direction of La rosa de nadie

Antonio García. Art Direction

Graduated in Fine Arts (Specializing in sculpture) by the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Moreover, he is co-founder of “Continuum Afectivo” with Francisco García Alcázar, opening a design studio, and producing three collections of furniture made in Murcia in 1986, 1988 and 1990, and in some galleries of Frankfurt, Milan, Sevilla and Valencia. In the study they create interior design projects, promotional items, graphic furniture, etc.

In 1993, they are selected in the international exhibition of interior "Abitare il Tempo", by Spain. 

He has work experience in the study of Denis Santachiara, in Milan (projects in which he participates: juicer design for WMF, thermo-fused chair and stackable for C2, fitness set designer for the exhibition "The New Person" Florence Biennale and restricted competition for the adequacy of facilities for Smart Mercedes / Swatch).

He has been Art Director of Ignacio Oliva short films: "La Isla de Papel", "Pies de Zorro" and "Sade". Today he is art curator in the art gallery "Fernando Guerao”.

Javier Gerada. Art Direction

Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Castilla La Mancha. He studied at the centers of interpretation: Estudio Tres, Teatro de la Danza, Teatro de Cámara de Madrid.

Theatrical training component of “Zafresca Teatral” and “Teatro Coraje” where she worked as actor, set designer and costume designer. Some of the productions are: “Bizarre Cabaret Bizarre”, “La asamblea de Mujeres” or “Ubu Rey”. He has done some cabaret shows: “La Noche de Perfidia” and “The Horror Perfidia Show” among others. Moreover, he has made some performances like “Brillo Contra Mate” in “sala Cruce” for the magazine experience, video art with David trullo: “El bosque humano” for estampa99 and creates spaces: The chill out at the event "Stop Wars" for Belio Magazine. 

AAssistant mounting the exhibition “Surrealistas en el Exilio” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofía with Sigfrido Martín Begué.

He has also worked as a collaborator in makeup and characterization work for theater and advertising. And the art direction has been in various productions of " Univers Proyecto Media" as the documentary “La memoria del tiempo devastado” and the shorts “Pies de Zorro” and “Sade”.

Alongside he plays a role as an occupational therapist and he is responsible for several workshops in the field of visual arts led to the group of elders.