Raul Vicente Giralt


Raul Vicente was born in Barcelona in the mid-eighties, near a subway stop, Bac de Roda, which at that time was not even planned. The neighborhood life awakened his curiosity for the people and their stories. In his post-adolescence, he was not sure what to do and became interested in audiovisual studies. Years later, after a string of poorly paid and precarious jobs, and unable to enter the audiovisual scene, he decided to buy the book “A Treatise on Documentary Filmmaking” by Michael Rabiger. Not being able to afford a master's degree in creative documentary, he thought this was a viable and efficient solution.

The knowledge gained from this reading was captured in the making of the documentary Protectio. It is in this work where we can appreciate the essences that will mark the trajectory of the filmmaker: raw documents that tell the stories of people and communities that society has relegated to the margins. The life stories of the characters in his documentaries expose the value system of peripheral communities, making us question the foundations of cultural centrality. Observation, estrangement, and curiosity are the means Raul Vicente proposes to reach this end. In short, an ethnographic exploration where the weight of the word falls on the subject, and crosses the viewers looking for reflection and parallels between the center and the periphery. Because as popular wisdom says, and it is worth the redundancy, in the end people are people.

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