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Protectio (2014) tells the stories of life in a place created by Lydia and Jordi: the Lydia Argilés animal shelter. The project for this work began when the filmmaker visited the shelter to make a video to raise funds for it. On learning about the story and the people behind the project, Raul Vicente proposed shooting a documentary that would show the human and non-human lives that converge in this rural enclave of Lleida. The film shows an ethnographic portrait of the daily lives of the main characters, who live sharing space among hundreds of abandoned dogs and cats. Their value systems, their way of understanding and facing life, with their own cosmology ready to stand up to the contradictions of society, are portrayed. With a life of sacrifice in the service, protection and saving of thousands of lives behind them, their reflections show us that something is wrong with society, something is wrong with its norms, beliefs and actions.

The video will be accompanied by the intervention of Yvonne Ramírez, who in her commentary will reflect on the ethnographic work and the forcefulness of lives that have ceased to be entangled in words and cultural struggles to transform the present from an unappealable doing.

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By Hamaca

Yvonne Ramírez holds a degree in Anthropology from the National University of Colombia, a Master's degree in Archaeology from the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Master's degree in History of Science from the UAB. She is currently completing her PhD at the Colonialism, Gender and Materialities research group at Pompeu Fabra University.

Raul Vicente Giralt is interested in raw documents that tell the stories of people and communities that society has relegated to the margins. Protectio is his debut film.