Time Theft was an expanded piece presented as an installation, a publication, an unfinished novel, a silent film, a soundtrack on a tape, and a live performance. The aim of the expanded work was to display various ways and media all used for the construction of narratives to produce "History" for the means of manipulation and control as in J.Goebbels. Roland Barthes's definition of the Third Meaning is intended to be a sensorial key about a Film composed in its entirety by film stills and the idea of lists and visual dialectics borrowed from the Surrealist (as in W. Benjamin ) is used as a basic structure for montage. The historian here represents a double agent, the work of art as ghostly history, the archive inside a film that accumulates past fragments and re-places /re-makes constantly its own present time.
The film reveals Barcelona's dark heart and memory of its civil War ruins, mixing far past and immediate past reflecting on how history repeats itself and re-appears in its distorted variations.
Contains images taken during a series of situationist derives around the Raval area plus many just taken from youtube film finds on internet derives and drifts, which are delivered as a stream of consciousness by the film itself, as a neutral apparatus containing all sorts of images, detritus, ruins, and ghosts, somehow confused and confusing meaning between lies and truths.
