Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the colonial administration of the so-called Spanish West Africa. In his images appear new cities as scenes of science fiction movies, surrounded by the desert and half-empty, prepared to welcome the new man that the regime designed. Impossible cities that the film says from the present in the only possible way, as Calvino wrote: from the relations between the measurements of its space and the events of its past.
Chus Domínguez
Director
Lee69%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Pianist83%
Night Will Fall76%
El espinazo del diablo72%
El fotógrafo de Mauthausen69%
Madres paralelas67%
Audrey71%
La niña de tus ojos65%
Hotel Rwanda77%
Empire of the Sun75%
The Bang Bang Club65%
All the Empty Rooms73%
Sherman's March67%
Cabrini77%
Desert Flower76%
Lucky Them60%
Night Always Comes60%
The Brutalist69%
Cover-Up70%
