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Xavier Artigas is a filmmaker born in Barcelona. In 2009 he founded his own independent production company, Metromuster. In 2011, he joined the 15M movement audiovisual commission and began to collectively explore new audiovisual formats linked to political activism. His documentary Ciutat Morta (2013), mixing journalistic rigor and poetry, provoked an unprecedented media stir. Ciutat traveled around the world and was awarded at numerous film festivals. In 2016, Artigas co-directed Tarajal. A European Phantasmagoria, a documentary about institutional racism in Spain, and managed to reopen the legal case against a group of Spanish policemen who allegedly murdered dozens of African immigrants in the border in 2014.

In 2018, after four years of research, he wrote (with screenwriter Laia Manresa) and co-directed Idrissa, Chronicle of an Ordinary Death. Conceived as a project of social transformation, this documentary was able to repatriate to Africa the body of Idrissa Diallo, a young African who died in a migrant detention center in Barcelona.

Since 2020, Artigas has collaborated as an instructor and content creator in the Communication Degree at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and has published essays related to transmedia narratives and transformational documentary cinema.

Xavier Artigas is offering us the possibility of watching his films online before meeting with him on November 3rd:

Ciutat morta (2013)
https://vimeo.com/482642950

Tarajal. A European Phantasmagoria (2016)
https://vimeo.com/xavierartigas/tarajalen

Idrissa, Chronicle of an Ordinary Death (2018)
https://vimeo.com/527246082
Password: IdrissaUOC

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