“Other Times”
Fictional documentary where three women compare the current tourist with the all times traveller, establishing a dialogue between today's society and the world of other times. Old photographs from the 20th century and current ones from the 21st become visual testimony to the transformation of Barcelona.
Director Biography
Xavier Guàrdia es co-fundador desde 2020 de la productora audiovisual Seny&Rauxa Docfilms, proyecto que se centra en la producción de cine de autor e independiente.
Actualmente está trabajando en el montaje de su primer largometraje documental Barcelona Tourist Walk que estrenará en 2023. Y también en fase de escritura del guión de su segundo largometraje Soy Camino para 2024.
FILMOGRAFÍA
1996 Whisky on the Rocks /1’/
1997 Le petit déjeuner /3’/
1998 Blue Moon /12’/
1999 Are You Lonesome Tonight? /5’/
2000 El Pez Más Viejo del Río /4’/
2001 Ho Sento Molt /4’/
2002 Un Tomb per Barcelona /15’/
2012 Sensation. À propos du poème de Rimbaud/10'/
2013 Señas de Identidad /12'/
2014 Atuendos, Dioses e Identidades /11'/
2015 Par les Soirs Bleus d'Eté /10'/
2016 A Bit Of Us /4’/
2017 Barcelona Tourist Walk /4’/ (Videoclip)
2018 Cielito Lindo, Videta Meva /4’/
2019 Auld Lang Syne /6’/
2020 Buscando Ese Mar /4’/
2021 Towards The Hill /20’/
2022 Otros Tiempos /20’/
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Xavier Guàrdia, Barcelona 1970, is a producer, screenwriter and film director. He studied Film Directing at Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya CECC and graduated in 2002. He has written and directed fiction and documentary short films in 8mm, 16mm and HD Video formats.
He also has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and Proficiency in English from Cambridge University. He has run Aula Anglesa School of English since it was founded in 2001.
Xavier Guàrdia is co-founder since 2020 of the film production company Seny&Rauxa Docfilms, a project that focuses on the production of arthouse films and independent cinema.
He is currently working on the editing of his first documentary feature film Barcelona Tourist Walk, which will be released in 2023. And he is also in the writing of the script for his second feature film Soy Camino for 2024.
FILMOGRAPHY
1996 Whisky on the Rocks /1’/
1997 Le petit déjeuner /3’/
1998 Blue Moon /12’/
1999 Are You Lonesome Tonight? /5’/
2000 El Pez Más Viejo del Río /4’/
2001 Ho Sento Molt /4’/
2002 Un Tomb per Barcelona /15’/
2012 Sensation. À propos du poème de Rimbaud/10'/
2013 Señas de Identidad /12'/
2014 Atuendos, Dioses e Identidades /11'/
2015 Par les Soirs Bleus d'Eté /10'/
2016 A Bit Of Us /4’/
2017 Barcelona Tourist Walk /4’/ (Videoclip)
2018 Cielito Lindo, Videta Meva /4’/
2019 Auld Lang Syne /6’/
2020 Buscando Ese Mar /4’/
2021 Towards the Hill /20’/
2022 Otros Tiempos /20’/