In addition to making the documentary known, the website hosting the Empty Boxes project was also made known. According to him, “Empty boxes is an audiovisual documentary project to get to know and tell the experiences of Basque refugees. Long professional career. I work in depth. A story built in the first person, leaving aside the stigma of the silhouette.”
When the Civil Guard left to seek him as a member of ETA, he left Elgoibar and exiled north of Josu Lariz in 1984. He left the French State and entered Uruguay in 1988. As pointed out by the authors in the synopsis of the documentary, “he was imprisoned three times, twice in Uruguay and one in Argentina. This is the only Basque who has won in two different countries the requests for extradition made by Spanish justice. In the Spanish State, for reasons not yet closed, he cannot return to his native town, Altzola; he lives in the city of Montevideo”.
This same week two fugitives, Joseba Sarrionandia and Agustín Azkarate, returned to Euskal Herria. The Social Forum of the Basque Country has reported that there are still 41 Basques abroad affected by the political conflict, eight deportees and 33 internally displaced persons. Since 1998, there have also been 201 fuges who have returned to Euskal Herria.
On the website of the empty box you can read: "Exile is a concept, a word; a situation, come on. A kind of tacit pact. Ignorance and many times... not knowing better. We set aside perception or imaginary and we will shape the word deserria. It will incorporate letters, change forms, fill with content and transform the meaning itself.”
It is a project that has been underway since 2012 and that, as explained, “follows the objective of knowing and publicizing the whole truth of the exiles. Precisely, understanding that truth is the starting point and the basis of justice, reparation and measures and guarantees of non-repetition”.
The project drivers are Josu Trueva, Gari Garaialde and Iker Oiz, working group photographer Bostok Photo.
Sheet: Quincena Musical from San Sebastian. Kursaal Auditorium Cycle.
Orchestra Filarmónica della Scala de Milan. Address: Riccardo Chailly
Programme: Works by Tchaikovsky and Ravel.
Place: Kursaal auditorium.
Date: 27 August
Perhaps the philharmonic of the Scala of... [+]
Start of the summer. EHZ festival hangover (atx, headache). You want to breathe after a charged course. Flush the head. Reconnect key elements. Take some time with family, see old friends again and rest (a little) in the daily struggle. Really? !...
As a family, walk to the... [+]
There are words, forms, gestures and attitudes that cannot enter and leave the body. Those that get into the body and rot into it. They pierce the body. They break down the body. They eliminate the body. And it's over. You can't go back to a state before a body that's broken down... [+]
Experts and victims have participated in the meetings of the UEU Department of Glottodidactics on Euskaltegis and intersectionality. There have been students in the middle, underprivileged, oppressed students in the corners. Because the dissident genres, the deaf, the blind,... [+]
We all know that freedom is a difficult, multi-margin concept, difficult to define in words. We often define it immensely, with being able to decide without constraints, without consequences or without taking responsibility for the actions. But since there is nothing without... [+]
In recent times we have had the opportunity to analyse politicisation and depoliticisation, focusing attention on young people. However, most of the conclusions of sociological studies dealing with young people are also applicable to other age groups, although of varying... [+]
The TRAILER of the film Gladiator II, which will be released in the autumn, already shows in less than three minutes an error or a historical license.
Ridley Scott's film celebrates a naumaki or naval battle at the Colosseum. The expensive show was held three times in the Roman... [+]