Experiencing Interruptions?

This house is my house

This is a film about a house that is not my house, told in a language that is not my language.

At the same moment I was told by my landlord that I should soon leave the flat because it would be put on sale, I was studying vocabulary for house searching in my Euskera class. Out of this funny coincidence, I wrote a simple A1 level text with the few words and structures that I could manage and desperately started filming spaces of my home. The living room with the cat, the kitchen with the dirty dishes, my bed unmade, and the sound of Dembow music that sneaks into the gray landscape of Bilbao. Simple moments of an everyday life that no longer exists.

With this movie I intend to reflect upon the relationships we build with the spaces we inhabit, the fragility of change in our day-to-day realities, and the constant adaptation that accompanies migration.

  • Gabriel Jose Quiñones Espinal
    Director
  • Gabriel Jose Quiñones Espinal
    Writer
  • Gabriel Jose Quiñones Espinal
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Etxe hau nire etxea da
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 10, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Dominican Republic
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Gabriel Jose Quiñones Espinal

Gabriel Quiñones (Dominican Republic, 2000) is a visual artist and filmmaker interested in the intersection between fiction and documentary. He holds a BA in Film and Audiovisual Communication from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and has participated in workshops at the Altos de Chavón film school, DGCINE, Walden Residencies, ADF Argentina, Dominican Global Film Festival, DocMontevideo and DocSP, University of Córdoba, among others.

He has directed fiction and documentary short films, and his work has been part of group exhibitions in spaces such as the National Gallery of Fine Arts of the Dominican Republic, Gallery of the Alliance Française of Santo Domingo, the Bideodromo Festival and the Bizkaia Aretoa hall in Bilbao. In 2020 & 2022 he was awarded the Catapult Caribbean Arts Grant from Kingston Creative Jamaica, and has collaborated in several films as Director of Photography, Assistant Camera, Stills and Editor.

He is in the development stage of “Foto Doris”, a documentary project with which he was part of Walden Residencies 2020, and the Curando Caribe program of Centro León and Centro Cultural de España de Santo Domingo. He was part of the Young Jury at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao ZINEBI 2022 and collaborated programming the 102nd session of the Illegal Cinema of Bulegoa Z/B. He was part of the Institute of Artistic Practices JAI 2024 at the Artium Museum and Tabakalera Donostia, in the summer of 2024. He has completed the Master in Contemporary Technological and Performative Arts at the University of the Basque Country in which he did his internship at the Bilbaoarte foundation. Currently he is studying at the PhD program in Contemporary Art Research at the same faculty.

Lives and works in Bilbao.

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