Stones
Director Mercedes Mangrane
Countries Spain
Duration 16 min
Synopsis
A poetic video-essay takes different typologies of stones in the zone of the Ampurdan area (Girona) to raise a serie of connexions about the destruction of the coast by the realstate speculation, the mental and aesthetic experience with a pictorical landscape that becomes exotic by interviewing Suiseki collectors (the ancient Japanese art of contemplating stones). The decadence of the ruins of Ampurias, craddle of western civilization, is the background landscape.
A poetic video-essay takes different typologies of stones in the zone of the Ampurdan area (Girona) to raise a serie of connexions about the destruction of the coast by the realstate speculation, the mental and aesthetic experience with a pictorical landscape that becomes exotic by interviewing Suiseki collectors (the ancient Japanese art of contemplating stones). The decadence of the ruins of Ampurias, craddle of western civilization, is the background landscape.