Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

The origin of this work lies on Xosé María Díaz Castro’s poem "Coma brasas (Like embers"). It is part of "#ProxectoNIMBOS", a project promoted by Martin Pawley where (young) filmmakers are asked to create audiovisual pieces after Díaz Castro’s poems included in his only published book, "Nimbos". Díaz Castro as a poet, me as a filmmaker: “(...) Here they are, like embers in the night, the old things, full of destinies. (...) I will give to those things the whole drama that destiny denies them: I will give them faces, so that they may meet each other; I will give them words, so that they may understand each other…”. According to the filmmaker Carlos Rivero, director assistant in this project: “Those three shots could be taken as three different stories, but, for some magical reason (there it is, the cinema), they are connected and linked around their mystery. It is only by means of cinema that things can recover the dignity denied by destiny. And of course by means of time.”

Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas was born in León, Spain, in 1992. Being passionate by cinema since he was a teenager, he started to film and edit short videos in 2008, when he was 16 years old. Ever since, he has never stopped filming and editing on his own. In 2010, he entered the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, which belongs the the Polytechnic University of Madrid, UPM), where he continues studying at present. From October 2013 to October 2014, he lived in Tokyo as an Exchange student in the University of Tokyo (Tokyo Daigaku). This experience changed his life. Back to Spain, he decided to study a Master Course in Contemporary Audiovisual Creation in LENS School of Visual Arts, which he combined with his studies in Architecture. His first feature film, “陽平・YOHEI”, which was written, filmed, edited and directed on his own, not only is the result of his vital experience in Tokyo, but also some kind of summary of 23 years of life as a passionate cinema lover. He is currently finishing the postproduction of his second feature film, “Amijima”, and shooting between Spain and Korea his third feature, “Gimcheoul”.