Film Programme
MIGRANT MAPS
documentary
Spain, 2009, 17'
Director: David Batlle
Producer: David Batlle
Director of photography: Carlos Vásquez
Editor: David Batlle
Synopsis: Migrant maps is a review of migrations in Barcelona, from the years after the Civil War until nowadays, narrated through buildings and street furniture. Migrant maps is an atlas, a set of maps drawn by the voices of migrants, whose past tales invite us to reread present places. Charting the invisible, we enter a territory where the subjectivities will erase the lines built by the dominant discourse.
Director: David Batlle
A geography graduate from the Universitat de Barcelona in 2004, he studied for two years at the Barcelona EMAV (Audiovisual Media School). Later on, he joined the V Edition of the Master in Creative Documentary at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2006/2007) and began to collaborate with Estudi Playtime in the following projects: Script development for “Cuchillo de Palo” by Renate Costa, Documentation for “Distancias” by Pilar Monsell. And research and documentation for “Morir de día” by Sergi Dies and Laia Manresa. Since 2009, he is a member of the video streaming group formed at HANGAR (Visual Arts Production Centre) in Barcelona. He is a creator in the experimental laboratory for real time internet video with free software. As well as the laboratory, they also deliver workshops and audiovisual documentation in cultural events.