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Rocio Mesa

Historia

Rocio Mesa is a Spanish filmmaker, programmer and producer based in California. Mesa’s debut feature as a director, ORENSANZ, premiered at SEFF (Festival de Sevilla) in 2013. Her upcoming feature project as a writer-director, TOBACCO BARNS, has been selected in some of the most prestigious screenwriting workshops, like Sundance Faliro House 2017 or Sources2 2018, among others. Rocio Mesa is the founder of the production company MY DEER films, she has produced titles Mbah Jhiwo by Álvaro Gurrea, premiered at Berlinale Forum 2021. Mesa is the director of "LA OLA - Independent Films from Spain", an organization focused on the promotion of the Avant-guard Spanish cinema in North America.

Películas

Secaderos

Writer

Seven-year-old Vera lives in the big city but adores spending the holidays in her grandparent’s town and particularly in their deserted tobacco barn. Nieves, a teenager native from there whose father forces her to help out at the family’s land, can’t avoid but feeling caged. The two girls, driven by the sense of adventure and the need to find oneself respectively, will be connected to a magical creature that will change the way they see their own reality.

Secaderos

Director

Alma anciana

Producer

Yono, o Mbah Jhiwo (Alma Anciana), es uno de los mineros que cargan a diario grandes rocas de azufre por la ladera del cráter del Kawa Ijen. Una mañana, de forma inesperada, su mujer abandona el hogar familiar alterando una rutina en la que el tiempo parecía suspendido. Desde entonces, atrapado como Sísifo en un eterno retorno y guiado por la fe en recuperarla, Yono se enfrentará a sucesos parecidos que irán mutando de aspecto según sus creencias cambian del animismo al islam y al capitalismo. Una película de etnoficción que explora la alteridad y cuestiona el mito del progreso en la realidad neocolonial de las islas de los Mares del Sur.

Dear Friend

Director

This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to bring you back to the little pleasures of childhood. Filmed and in-camera edited in Super 8mm by Rocio Mesa with an original soundtrack by Landon Caldwell. Spring 2020.

Tobacco Barns Light Studies

Director

The tobacco plant was introduced to Granada (Southern Spain) in 1923. It became a monoculture in the region until the end of the century. When the tobacco production stopped being profitable, the farmers switched to new crops like wheat, corn or asparagus. However, the lands of Granada are still replete with tobacco barns: large empty houses where the leaves used to be hanged to dry. They inhabit the landscape like architectural ghosts.

Vega

Director

The land gives. The land traps. The land calls. VEGA (*Spanish): flat, low and fertile land. VEGA: It is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.

Orensanz

Director

En Orensanz una visita guiada a uno de los espacios artísticos más genuinos del Lower East Side neoyorquino se convierte en un revelador viaje a las profundidades del pirineo aragonés. El artista contemporáneo Angel Orensanz es la bisagra que une estos espacios. Un rebaño de ovejas, un gato acostumbrado a esquivar taxis en la gran manzana, las manos curtidas de un picapedrero o la luz que se cuela por las ventanas de una sinagoga son los colores, las texturas o los sonidos que narran esta historia que reflexiona acerca del concepto de la fama y otras tantas cosas más. (FILMAFFINITY)