From Social Realism to Filmic Fable: New Approaches to Spanish Agrarian Documentaries. Dialogue with Fernando Gómez Luna

Abstract

The Spanish agrarian documentary, represented by directors as important as José Neches or the Marquis of Villa Alcázar, far from being exhausted, is a way of creation for directors today. This is the case of the documentary El rastro firme (Fernando Gómez Luna, 2022) in which the aesthetic-narrative approaches of the agrarian documentary tradition are brought into play, although at the same time they are updated through the introduction of greater social realism or the path of myth, so present in Erice’s filmography. Thus, through the interview with the director, the aim is to address the way the film is made, along with the approach to the context of production and post-production of it.