Mitología de barrio

espírituescalera is a film collective with the purpose of exploring, reflecting on, and creating audiovisual and cinematic projects that transcend personal and individual anecdotes, addressing issues, atmospheres, and narratives that engage with the collective and everyday conflict. 

So far, different pieces such as "La insurrección que viene", "Sistema nervioso", and "Carmen dormida, Carmen despierta" have been showcased at various film festivals and exhibition spaces. Currently, the collective is actively developing several film projects, including the feature films “La muerte no pudo con él”, “Laguna”, “El Ministro” and “Los Atlantes”, as well as working in postproduction on other projects, including "Dulcinea" and "La Llorona".

"Neighborhood Mythology (Mitología de barrio)" was born in 2018 as a project focused on the physical and audiovisual journey through the outskirts of the city of Madrid. To achieve this, certain formal rules were established: no prior location scouting; filming in wide shots simulating a tourist postcard in places that would never have a postcard; always filming under sunlight, as if every recorded moment were happening during a hot summer afternoon at the same instant; and not aiming to capture reality, understanding that reality itself is also an ideological issue, both in its function and comprehension. 

Thus, the production team wandered the city aimlessly, moving through the neighborhoods they inhabited, without tying the project to the bureaucratic channels of institutions or the circuits of laboratories and festivals. The filming team was limited to three people. Over time, the material revealed a potential story, a small myth that allowed for fantasizing and discussing reality from fiction and from ideological premises that confronted the dominant reality. Only after capturing the majority of the footage did they write the script, and later, the editing and postproduction process also became part of the scriptwriting process. Inevitably, the bureaucratic channels arrived, although fortunately, this occurred when the film was already almost complete.