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Luis, where were the Polaroids shot?
"The masked people are from a tiny little Mexican village called San Blas (image is a gif, so wait for it). When I travel and see amazing things I prefer not to investigate too much about the things I encounter. So I really don't know why these people where dressed up like demons and hitting with fustas to every kid on the street. The kids seemed to enjoy it. It's Mexico, you know.

"Then there's the psychedelic carpet series shot in a hotel in San Francisco called Bel Air (image is a gif, so wait for it). It is run by an Indian couple that always want to get paid in advance. The whole hotel smells curry and the guard at night is realy freaky -- watches a TV with a fucked up connection -- he just stares at abstract shapes for the whole night.

"The blue polaroids and all those curtains where shot at a Hotel room in Toledo [España] where I slept with Laura, my girlfriend from the sky. We were coming back from Portugal and stopped there for the night. We are not together anymore. The hotel name was Beatriz and that is the name of that series.

"Then the big series (20 Polaroids)was all shot in one single afternoon walk in the streets of Kathmandu. That is way too old, maybe 1995 or something. I've been to Kathmandu three times and it is one of the most heavenly places on earth."


What kind of camera did you use?
"All those pictures where taken with a very limited product called Vision 95. It is an awesome machine but I guess pretty soon they won't be making that kind of film anymore. I also use the Joycam since it allows to superimpose more than one layer."

Do you travel a lot? For your job, or on your own? What's the best place you've been?
"I used to travel a lot just for pleasure but now my bank account just won't make it possible anymore. So at these days I travel most of the times for work. The most beautiful place I've ever been was the many deserts in southern Argelia. That realy struck me deep inside."

Where are you from?
"I'm from the city of Valencia in España, a shiny town by the Mediterranean sea. It is known for its rice and oranges, by its fireworks and by our major hollidays which consist in building up huge colorful structures worth millions and burning them down when the Sping arrives."


What do you do (what is your job)?
"I would love to know the answer to that question. I work in a TV Station in Barcelona (that's where I live now) and another one in Madrid that I did the skateboart show for (Luis interviewed the Art Dump in Middleberg for This is the Flow). I also draw and writte a little bit and shoot my own films. I used to play bass guitar in a one man band called Covectronic Diplomatic after the brand of the handdryer machines at my school. I constantly skip from one job to another. The last one was drawing a storyboard for a long feature film here in Barcelona. And the next one is supposed to be my first musical video clip in about a couple of weeks."

Who's the best interview you've done.
"I haven't really done that many interviews. I love to interview my grandmother whenever I meet her. She talks to me about the weirdest dreams with her dead husband in them.

"As professional interviews I realy enjoyed talking to Ed Templeton this summer. And I liked the one I did with Joshua Davis, the flash programmer in the net.
I have to apologize with you because I only found out about the huge amount of things you've done after I came back home from the Netherlands. Then I felt realy embarrased. I didn't even know you were Mel Bend!"

Keep that under your hat. Tell me a little about your films and collaborators.
"First I spend a lot of years only shooting super 8 films, realy abstract and constructivist after the films I loved by peoples such as Jonas Mekas, Dziga Vertov or Walter Ruttman. Then I got in a Cinema School and I didn't have time for personal projects. Then I did this short film 'Taxidermia' that did pretty well in festivals and shit. It is kind of a milkshake of thoughts on art, time and death. And I did another one called 'Pretty Short War' that is supposed to reflect the way I understand life. The battle of the good and the bad things in life.

"I just started a series of three very short films that portray the innocence and harmony in a child´s mental space. They are always sidekicked by a pet and they will be called 'Woof!', 'Meow!' and 'Quack!"
"The people I work with are always pretty much the same. Mònica Blas is always the producer (even though for the story on The Flow in Holland she was the writer). She's lovely and absolutely crazy in the coconut. But we are mainly a bunch of not-so-young people who met in film school.

"I don't know. Maybe I was a little to wide on my answers. Do you say wide? I don't think so. But it's okay, wide sounds good. Excuse my english."


Thank you, Luis Cerverò from España.