He was born in Valencia in 1936. For 50 years he has made documentaries with a social content and giving a voice to marginalized minorities.
In addition to film and television, he has also worked in the field of experimentation (video installations and experimental films). He was director of photography in several films and director of cultural programs at the beginning of TV3; he innovated in the treatment of content and in the training of the professionals who joined the chain.
In that independent cinema of the late 1960s, he made It Will Be Your Land (1965) and The Long Journey Towards Wrath (1969). The images of emigrants getting off the train, laden with suitcases, at the França station have become iconic.
Also those of the barracks of Camp de la Bota with adults and children sleeping in a heap. A 52 domingos (1966) were young people who, fleeing from their destiny, wanted to become bullfighters.
In the seventies he was a relevant director of marginal cinema. RNA newsreel (1970) ironized with false images about the Francoist indoctrination that the No-Do supposed. To Survive in Mauthausen (1975) documented the life of the Spaniards interned in this concentration camp. He did Gitanos sin romancero (1976) about one of these communities in Galicia. Autopista, unha navallada á nuisance land (1977) and O monte e noso (1978) were the chronicle of the neighborhood struggle against a highway and the appropriation of communal mountains. He was an important component of the Central del Corto, a distributor of films with a social content in the aftermath of Francoism and the transition.
Of his long subsequent career, we must highlight Every afternoon at five (1989), where he approaches, twenty years later, those young aspiring bullfighters; Citizens under suspicion (1992) about emigrants from black Africa in Barcelona; Francesc i Luis (1992), a story about two homosexuals.
From 1994 to 1996, he produced the 13-episode series El olvido del Past (TV3), about the deterioration of the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean.
Saïd (1998) is his first fictional story but with clear documentary notes. It is about an illegal Moroccan immigrant in Barcelona. Another feature film is Lola sells a house (2000) where we find the life of a young gypsy in the big city.
From 2000 is Francesc Boix, a photographer in hell This character managed to document life in the Mauthausen camp with images.
Del Roig al Blau (2004) is a documentary feature film about the political situation of the seventies and eighties in Valencia.
In Kenia and her family (2006) the new couple relationships that until then had been hidden are visualized. It explains how two lesbians manage to have a child through a biological father.
We will miss his courageous and committed look. It was always a free verse. A good person.
