La Casa Oberta

(The Open House)

19min / 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, Video 8 / Catalan and Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.  

Directed and written by Julieta Lasarte

Produced by Fasten Films

Producer Adrià Monés

Ex. Producer Jana Llopart, Ariadna Rodriguez

Director of photography Francesc Pigrau, Lucas Casanovas, Julieta Lasarte

Edited by Ana Pfaff, Juan Soto, Julieta Lasarte

Film made with the support of ICAA, ICEC, SLATE MEDIA

Shot in Cadaqués and Barcelona.

World Premiere at Busan Film Festival (South Korea)

European Premiere at Drama Fillm Festival (Greece) - Best direction Award

National Premiere at Seminci (Cine de Autor de Valladolid)

Documentary Short Candidate Goya 2024

Awards and Selected Secreenings

World Premiere at Busan Film Festival (South Korea)

Euopean Premiere at Drama Film Festival (Greece) and

Best Direction Award

Spain Premiere at Seminci (Cine de Autor de Valladolid)

Filmets Badalona Film Festival 2023

Los trabajos y las noches, Logroño 2023

VOC Festival Òmnium de Curtmetratges 2023

Logline

As a palimpsest (“re-recorded”), the director preserves the traces of the images shot by her grandfather, and generates others to give rise to the memory that now exists.

Synopsis

The open house is an imaginary reconstruction. A timeless narrative with protagonists from different times. The house as a theater of memory. Time encapsulated in a house. Multiple layers shot one on top of the other on 16mm film open the doors of the family memory. A journey through death, mourning and birth as a reflection on presences and absences. An attempt to bring the family together once again.

Director's note

“Palimpsest” means "engraved again", it is a manuscript that preserves traces of another previous writing on the same surface, but erased expressly to give place to the
one that now exists. From images shot in different decades and different formats, but in the same place, I intend to create timeless paths. While creating parallel universes
through archival material. I want to make different moments coexist in a simultaneous way, bringing together people who are still alive with those who are no longer here.