Beginning the 'Them, the Water and Me' research process

Mònica Rovira and Carles Àngel Saurí

The conversation around the creative process with Carles Saurí already exists. This is how we met: one casts images, the other returns words. We will open the working materials for the film in this session. There will be edited images, but also other raw footage, as well as texts, songs and other latent resonances that affect―and make―writing. 

Carles Àngel Saurí is a curator. His work unfolds from practices of accompaniment, localisation and empathy with artistic production and the context in which it operates. From 2022 to 2024, he directed the EACC (Castellón), co-founded Pols (Valencia) and worked as a member of the mediation team at Bombas Gens (Valencia). He has written for media such as Concreta, Culturplaza and Exit Express. 

Mònica Rovira is a filmmaker and researcher. Graduate in Audiovisual Communication and Master in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Diploma in Film Directing from FAMU (Academy of Performing Arts, Prague). With Ver a una mujer (2017), she began investigating the tension between desire and writing, film language as a place from which to ask questions, the ways of narrating what happens to us. With a binding urge, she has established a triangular relationship with the other and with the camera. A practice that focuses on the vulnerability and temporality of bodies, as well as the spectral relations that wound, pass through and overwhelm images. She rehearses the writing of the self in film, shaping a voice in transit that questions identity. Them, the Water and Me (2024) is the research for a new film.