Blanca Camell Galí
Tombent les heures - Film - 25min - 2018
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 20
Film
The young woman wanders round the town, going from bar to bar, from waste grounds to other streets, never finding the one she loves. Her desire cannot find its object, but the city allows her to forget her solitude. People stopped, danced, disturbed or took part in the shoot. If cinema stops everyday life, then here it is everyday life that catches up with us, like this young woman, lost in these post-industrial streets, confronting the inhabitants of a working class, Arab Montreuil, in the chaâbi music bars where the oud is almost no longer heard. Somewhere, a poet is improvising in the street.
Blanca Camell Galí
Born in 1990, Blanca Camell Galí studied cinema at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where she was awarded a diploma for the short L’oreig. She continued her studies at the Université Paris 8. Her second short, Ídols, earned her the prize for Best Performance by a Woman at the Festival Côté Court. Her work has also been shown at Indielisboa, Courtisane, D’A Film Festival and IBAFF. She is currently studying at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.
Production
Acknowledgments
The people of Montreuil, Mustapha Salmi, Ahmid Chaib, Saïd Djouad, Rachid et Mouhad Hamad, Patoche, Tarik Tamine, habitués of the bars Au Bon Accueil, Bar Fleuri, The Doors, and Le Manhattan, musicians Faso Ouattara, Karamogo Kouyate, Mohammed Kouyate, Franck Zilberschlag and the Mairie de Montreuil.
The whole wonderful film team, Marius Loris, Léo Loris, Anolga Rodionoff, Montserrat Galí, Jordi Camell, Carme Galí, Marta et Pau Camell Galí, Júlia Losada, Catarina Boieiro, Louise Piguet, Tom Pouget, Anaïs Ang, Thomas Dunoyer, Béla Tarr, François Bonenfant, Guylaine Huet, Blandine Tourneux, Mario Valero, Miguel Armas, Maxime Martinot, José López Pizarro, Olivier Cheval, Francisco Rodríguez, Melisa Liebenthal, Camila Rodríguez Triana, Mili Pecherer, Marina Smorodinova, Thanasis Trouboukis, Yohei Yamakado, Ricardo Giacconi, Clément Vieille, Juan Pablo Villegas, Maia Flore, Madeleine Van Doren, Daniel Dobbels, Frédéric Sabouraud, Eugénie Zvonkine, my fellow students and the personnel at Le Fresnoy.
