Dime quién era Sanchicorrota by Jorge Tur

Dime quién era Sanchicorrota (Tell Me Who Sanchicorrota Was). Directed by Jorge Tur. 63 minutes. 2013.
Presentation by Antonio Baños (Barcelona 1967) journalist and writter.

Just the way legends are made: with plenty of confusion. Everyone tells the oral story as they heard it from the mouths of their friends; if that day they’re in a good mood, they made add one of their own, and in a radius of just a few kilometres the myth comes to have a delirious slew of infinite shapes full of contradictory information, although there are certain deeds which are repeated without fail. Jorge Tur travels to Bardenas Park in Navarra and asks its denizens a simple question: Who was Sanchicorrota? The 15th-century bandit who stole from the wealthy and gave it to the poor? The polite bandit? The seducer? The ingenious criminal? The noble, indestructible thief who decided to kill himself rather than lose his freedom? With a devilish sense of humour and a healthily demythifying mission, Tur tackles such a complex and over exposed issue as collective memory. An unexpected encounter in a cabin will shift the tone of the testimonies and the film itself, moving the focus of the film to the recent history of Bardenas, a not-so-distant, harrowing past like an open wound for several generations.
 

About the director

In 2006, he directed De funció (On Function, but a play on words of “defunció” or “death”) in a co-production with Televisió de Catalunya and the Master’s programme at the UAB. This piece tells us about the life of a funeral director, precisely the part we are not used to seeing. “As its title hints at, the eye shapes every plane as if it were a place where the boundaries between backstage and the stage are blurred, as if the preparation process had enough theatricality as to render performance unnecessary” (D. Trerotola). He/It has won prizes such as the Manoel de Oliveira Prize for the Best International Documentary at the Vila Do Conde International Short Film Festival (Portugal), the New Authors Prize for the Best Director at the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia and second prize in the Domestic Short Films section at Documenta Madrid.
 
His next project, Castillo (Castle), tells the story of the resident of a psychiatric ward and his educator, determined to teach him how to make a television news programme. This project earned him an Honourable Mention from the Jury at the Las Palmas International Film Festival. His latest work is a co-production with Krea Expressió Contemporània (Vitoria-Gasteiz) entitled Si jo fos tu m'agradarien els Cicatriu (If I Were You I’d Like Cicatriz) in which the residents found on the streets of Vitoria recite songs by a Basque punk rock band from the eighties and nineties: Cicatriz. This filmography is completed with a series of diaries, Diaris # 1-4, which includes the pieces Esmorzar davant del canal (Having Breakfast by the Canal), Benidorm, Cap d'any (New Year’s) and El meu Camisa Fa olor Brillant (My Shirt Smells Brilliantly), along with travelogues (Diari Rus: el futur dels anys 80 [Russian Diary: The Future of the Eighties]).
 
Today he is an instructor and project production coordinator at the Master’s in Creative Documentary Filmmaking at the UAB.

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