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This video has been filmed in Talavera, a little town in the region of "La Mancha" (Spain) where I was born. Filmed in 16mm and borrowing some semantic and visual blueprints from Chris Marker?s La Jetée (1962), the film continuously reaches a climax but never a resolution, in which places that I am familiar with are transformed into timeless and unreal. The film is designed taking into account the visual and linguistic codes of 60s sci-fi movies. All the pictures were taken in 2011 from real persons (friends, familiars, etc) and real places (all of them in Talavera), except the final frames from the NASA experiment (according to the same confrontation between reality and fiction). This is the first chapter of an ongoing film, without end. Actually, the second chapter is being filmed in Coney Island (New York), with the same technical features (a 16 mm Bolex H16 REX-5 camera and an old film from the sixties).

Karlos Gil (Toledo 1984) lives and works between Madrid and New York. Among the group exhibitions in which he has taken part, his notable works include Experimental Station, researching and artistic phenomena. CA2M, Madrid and LABoral, Gijón; Storytellers, West Side Gallery, New York; Far from Home, Galería MASART, Barcelona; (In)visivilidad y (Des)control, Fernado Pradilla Gallery, Madrid; Fresh, Ulf Saupe Galerie, Berlin; Against Egocentry. Brotfabrik Gallerie, Berlin; Zeppelin Festival 08, CCCB, Barcelona; Intransit, c Arte c, Madrid; IKAS-ART, Bilbao Exhibition Centre, BEC, Bilbao; Codified, Vibe Gallery, London; Beyond the abyect, Collision 08, London; The mean and the meaning, Puente sonoro, FI, Bogotá; Sci-Fi Tags. CaixaForum. Madrid. He is currently the summer resident artist at the School of Visual Arts, New York.