Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.
The encounter of three movies, three territories. A personal story that portrays, through experiments revealed by images and extracts from a diary, lived meetings and inhabited places filled by forces of nature, colors, incidents and struggles.
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During her quarantine, the director was invited to make a film about her experience of confinement. To face this challenge, she extracts images from her memory -and archive-, to remind herself where to move to. "How to film flowers" is a personal essay film where artistic creation and personal expression become the means to think and process life. The result is an essay film about cinema and life as a creative act.
Francesca Svampa’s dreamlike portrait of Barcelona, shot in double exposure on reversible 8mm film, is interwoven with Svampa’s intimate, reminiscent telling of her personal micro-memories, as a woman, filmmaker, and immigrant.