Jaime Rosales - Wang Bing: Carta 3. Red Land

"Water is not only not clear, it also has its own smell. This water smells like iron. It's poisoned with heavy metals. Th ere's life in this water. Th ese microorganisms use the poisons in water to get energy." The connection between Happy Valley in China and this place near Madrid. Rosales is inspired by Buñuel's Land Without Bread. Both have tried to capture things that escape logical thinking, but that also converge. With Rosales, the ruins of a village, scenes of a flooded quarry, abandoned places in the landscape, and finally archival footages from the time when the mines were worked all combine to create an imaginary arc of meaning. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)