This Is Raquel’s Not-So-Secret Diary
202318 minPG
Synopsis
I kept three diaries, at different points, between the time I was a preteen until early adulthood. Whenever I went back to my mother’s house, I would find them. I decided to read them all at once and realized a problem, that they dealt with the same topic—boys.
Credits
Director & Producer
Raquel Agea
Raquel Agea Ramos (Benidorm, 1993) studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Murcia and later did a master’s degree in art direction in Madrid. She made her first short film, Wounds Against Oblivion (2018), which was selected in numerous national and international festivals. Her second short film, This Is Raquel’s Not-So-Secret Diary (2023), subsidized by the Murcia City Council through its Reactivos Culturales ’21 call, has been selected by CURTS catalog of the Institut Valencià de Cultura for its distribution.
Details
Festival records
- 2024Spektrum
Cinema as Memorial
Reminiscence? What is reminiscence? What is the difference between them and memories? What can constitute a reminiscence and memory? How does reminiscence work? Whose reminiscence? What reminiscence? What memory? Whose memory? When should we reminisce and when should we remember? How do we remember and how do we reminisce?
The films in this year’s Spektrum explore these questions through a variety of approaches, both experimental and traditional in documentary film production.
Still: GOING BACK TO YOUR MEMORY IS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE (Daniel Pérez Silva, 2023) 
Still: Big Bang Henda (Fernanda Polacow, 2023) 
Still: Auspicio (Francisco Bouzas, 2023) 
Still: Remanence (Sabine Groenewegen, 2024) 
Still: This Is Raquel’s Not-So-Secret Diary (Raquel Agea, 2023) 
Still: Remanence (Sabine Groenewegen, 2024) 
Still: I WAS THERE, PART II (Chi Jang Yin, 2024) 
Still: 14 Paintings (Dongnan Chen, 2023) Instead of contestation, this year’s Spektrum tries to present a range of diverse scores on memory and how we remember. From the very personal to/or at the same time the collective, as well as from the hegemonic to the alternative. Memories and ways of remembering coexist; they can be equally important for us to know or learn. It’s not about finding answers in an instant, but rather as a reminder that we can retain as a critical aid to navigate life now and then.
–Wimo Ambala Bayang
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