Familia Guerra (Family War)

Familia Guerra (War Family) is a video piece from 2007 that Pere Noguera made with a Central European original archive from the first half of the XX century that he found in the Empordà. The artist puts in dialogue recordings of the Second World War made by a soldier with domestic footage of the same person in his family environment.

Bucolic family scenes from amateur films are contrasted with documentary-style war scenes.

The filmic recycling of these “found” materials allows the creation of a visual diptych that expresses the contradictions, instability and intrinsic weaknesses of humans’ well-being.