English Title: An Afternoon in My Life
Spanish National Television RTVE2 Cámara Abierta.
Reportage
SYNOPSIS
With a vague script I recorded my grandfather during one afternoon. I looked for those things that make him special.
TECHNICAL SPECS
7’ minutes. Documentary/Fiction. Color. Stereo. HDV. Place: Bilbao. Spain.
MISCELLANEOUS
My grand father was a banker all his life, but few years before he passed away he started drawing some caricatures copied from news papers. He also has a passion in history and Russian Revolution, so I decided to spend one afternoon and film him drawing one of his idols.
I consider this short piece a hybrid between documentary and fiction. It is documentary because most of the footage is a “perfect” portrait of my grandfather, capturing moments of his daily life. At the same time I think it is fiction because I directed him in some actions, trying to shape it into a standard short-film language.
![Una Tarde de mi Vida - Still 2 A senior man with a communist hat](https://ivancortazar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Una-Tarde-de-mi-Vida-Still-2.jpg)
![Una Tarde de mi Vida - Still 3 A compass on an image of Lenin](https://ivancortazar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Una-Tarde-de-mi-Vida-Still-3.jpg)
![Una Tarde de mi Vida - Still 1 A living room with a mixture of communist and elephant figurines](https://ivancortazar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Una-Tarde-de-mi-Vida-Still-1.jpg)