The first half of the ’90s of the last century was the time for the first film projects\u2026, and for absolute failures. I failed to complete any of them, but elements have survived from all that enable the memory of those video tests, voluntaristic, without means or budget, and practically without professional actors; none were assembled, and now they hold for me the beauty of ruins.<\/p>\n
Pasi\u00f3n<\/em> [Passion] (1990) I wrote and directed with Juan Manuel Soler. It is lost, except for the header poster, the script, and three photographs from the shooting. It was a sort of story about Jesus of Nazareth, but very kitsch<\/em>, with a soundtrack that we would now call retro<\/em>. We filmed it on the rooftop of my parents’ building in Valencia. The now geographer Carles Sanchis Ibor (Jesus), his partner Merche Rom\u00e1n (Mary Magdalene), and Luis Sanchis (Child Jesus) played the main roles. Rafael Momp\u00f3 \u2013 who would eventually end up at the now-defunct Espacio Moma in Valencia \u2013 also participated in the filming, and Alejandro Vila, leader of the music band Ablativo absoluto, stopped by the set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first half of the ’90s of the last century was the time for the first film projects\u2026, and for absolute failures. I failed to complete any of them, but elements have survived from all that enable the memory of those video tests, voluntaristic, without means or budget, and practically without professional actors; none were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films-en","tag-1990-en"],"yoast_head":"\n