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ONE Blanket Between Two is a mesmerising and melancholy short film from artist Sonia Boue, recalling the exile from fascist Spain of her father Jose Garcia Lora.
Boue uses a variety of media in her work, which can be witty and full of whimsy as well as deeply moving. Memories of family, forced emigration and a yearning for “home” are essential themes in the pieces she creates.
In post-Franco Spain, the so-called pact of forgetting has tainted family history. The law on historical memory passed only in 2007 is still contested by many and Boue’s family was not alone in having a silenced trauma, the hardship of the past going unspoken.
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