Dolor de corazón

Texas Sunrise (2002) presents a montage of images of shifting rhythms vertebrated by the passionate words of an invisible man, a left-wing deist anarchist: Johnson Frisco. A ghost of roads and freight trains, inspired by the devout indigenous attitude towards the land and its respectful management of natural resources, Frisco denounces greed, property, money, and the fearful conformism of an American people who possess nothing more than the illusion of freedom. Its author is Lluís Escartín.

The video will be accompanied by the intervention of Pol Guasch, who will read some poems from it. In Pol's writing, we can sense a nostalgia for stories of utopia, love, criticism linked to hope and the stimulation of an agency that considers a meanwhile and an after that are also present in Texas Sunrise.

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Lluís Escartín is a photographer and filmmaker. Since he accidentally worked for Jonas Mekas, he has dedicated himself to travelling, camera in hand, through deserts, jungles and other desolate places to position himself as an observer of the world, restless and curious to discover, always with a poetic commitment. His work is a composition without a score that breaks with the formalisms of local video creation.

Pol Guasch has a master's degree in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities (UB) and in Contemporary Theory, Literature and Culture (King's College London). He has also studied on the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA and has been an associate lecturer in Literature and Cultural Criticism at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of the novel Napalm en el cor / Napalm en el corazón and the poetry books Tanta gana and La part del foc.