SHORT FILMS BY OSCAR PÉREZ RAMÍREZ

The Asociación DOCMA video cycle at Intermediae Miradas al extranjero: nuevos autores del documental español (Views abroad: new Spanish documentary filmmakers) returns on 30 September with a third showing consisting of three short films by Óscar Pérez Ramírez. As in the other showings in the cycle, as well as three of the filmmaker’s short films, there is a presentation and colloquium with Óscar Pérez and a representative of DOCMA. Óscar Pérez Ramírez (Girona, 1973) studied documentary cinema at the London College of Communication. He has given classes in scripts and documentaries on the Creative Documentary masters degree course at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the Micro Obert Study Centre. In 2009 he produced and directed a signature documentary series for Televisión de Cataluña (TV3) and he is currently working on his first full-length film. On Friday, 30 September three of the filmmaker’s works will be presented. Like a heavy air, the tragic, silent company of loneliness is present in all of them. >El Sastre (The tailor), 2007 (Spain). Documentary. Directed by: Óscar Pérez Ramírez. Duration: 30´. O.V in Punjabi and Spanish with Spanish subtitles. Mohamed, a Pakistani tailor, and Singh, his Indian assistant, work together in an 8m² shop in Barcelona. Mohamed is very bad tempered and his only concerns are the progress of his business and being able to follow his religious rules. Singh is a fifty-year-old Indian immigrant recently arrived from Spain, working illegally for a miserable sum of money. Paradoxically, in a very small space, loneliness and isolation in a strange country appear to be the only destiny for both of them. >If the Camera Blows Up, 2008 (Spain). Documentary. Directed by: Óscar Pérez Ramírez. Duration: 12´. O.V in various languages with Spanish subtitles. As a reinventor of direct cinema, Óscar Pérez’ films are increasingly sharp and uncomfortable. Handing over his camera to a Pakistani immigrant based in Barcelona, Pérez puts us in front of a mirror where we never like to see ourselves, confronted by our own prejudices and protagonists of a mistrust which we refuse to accept. >Ventrada (Camada) (Litter), 2009 (Spain). Documentary. Directed by: Óscar Pérez Ramírez. Duration: 22´. O.V in Catalan with Spanish subtitles. A stark portrait of probably the only paraplegic shepherd in the world. Life and death go hand in hand in an inhospitable place with a sinister beauty.  

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