La memoria interior. Una mirada sobre la representación de la (auto) extranjería, el trabajo y la ausencia, 2002

La memoria interior. Una mirada sobre la representación de la (auto) extranjería, el trabajo y la ausencia (The inner memory: A look on the representation of (self) foreignness, the work and the absence), 2002

"This documentary essay is the result of a trip to Germany, and a personal investigation lasting more than two years. It tackles the theme of the construction of memory and of the mechanisms of the production of history. Through the narration of my family¿s history, it delves into the memory of the recent emigration from Spain. It reflects on the mechanisms of oblivion and remembrance. It is an elaboration from personal experience, against the idea of an official history or memory. This is a film about forgetting absence from an experience, my own, marked by the necessity to remember and to tell this history in order to claim other forms of narration, far from traditional hierarchies." (María Ruido)


María Ruido

1967, Orense (Spain). Lives and works in Barcelona. Artist, filmmaker, researcher and cultural producer, María Ruido has worked on media projects since 1996. In her work, she has developed an investigation focused on the social construction of the body and the place it takes within the different conceptions of labour, or on the mechanisms that help construct memory and its relation to historical narratives. She is editor at Arte y Políticas de Identidad magazine. Ruido belongs to several research groups, where she has produced works questioning the idea of representation and the contexts under which 'representation' is being created. She has taken part in exhibitions such as A Small Post-Fordian Drama (Kunstverein, Munich, 2004), Crossing Europe (OK Centrum, Linz, 2006), VIDEO ZONE 3 (CCA, Tel Aviv, 2006), Working Documents (La Virreina, Barcelona, 2008), the 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009) and at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival (2009).