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Monesma Eugenio Monesma Eugenio Monesma (Huesca, 1952) is an ethnographic film director and producer. He has dedicated 40 years of his life to video documenting lost traditions, customs and crafts of the rural world in Spain. In all this time he has compiled more than 3,200 documentaries, which have been recognized with more than 200 awards. Do you know how to make a cowbell, how charcoal burners worked, what horns are used for, how thistles are buried, how a primitive circular hut was built or how to make tiles, bricks and roof tiles with water and earth and by hand? All this and much more has been recorded, forever, thanks to the work of this film producer. And his videos are accessible to everyone on his YouTube channel .
In this interview with Escapada Rural, Eugenio Monesma tells us why he began to immortalize these lost trades (well, not all), what hopes he has for them or what we can do to prevent their complete disappearance. Welcome to my YouTube channel! More than 450 COMPLETE AND FREE ethnographic DOCUMENTARIES Australia Email List When did you start documenting lost trades and why? I started collecting these jobs in 1982, in Super-8 format. I changed formats, going through Betacam and now digital. I joined the Aragonese Institute of Anthropology and there we considered the need to recover traditions and customs that were lost. Within them were the trades. Over time, as I discovered new ones, I began to see the importance of recording them because they would be lost. At this moment I have about 2,000 documentaries that cover these jobs.
When is a trade considered lost? I ask this because if they have recorded it, it is because they are not completely lost... Indeed. There are some that have been completely lost, such as the cart makers or the batifolia, who are the ones who made gold leaf to decorate religious images. However, there are others who have recovered, but in a festive tone or in line with maintaining the tradition as happens with the stone workers in Quintanar de la Sierra, where every year they bake a batch of stones to see how that work was done, or the nabateros of Sobrarbe , who every year have a party to lower the wood down the rivers for an entire morning... And there are others that still, fortunately, have not been lost, such as transhumance. However, they are at a point of considerable decline and at great risk of disappearing at the moment. The CHARCOAL.
In this interview with Escapada Rural, Eugenio Monesma tells us why he began to immortalize these lost trades (well, not all), what hopes he has for them or what we can do to prevent their complete disappearance. Welcome to my YouTube channel! More than 450 COMPLETE AND FREE ethnographic DOCUMENTARIES Australia Email List When did you start documenting lost trades and why? I started collecting these jobs in 1982, in Super-8 format. I changed formats, going through Betacam and now digital. I joined the Aragonese Institute of Anthropology and there we considered the need to recover traditions and customs that were lost. Within them were the trades. Over time, as I discovered new ones, I began to see the importance of recording them because they would be lost. At this moment I have about 2,000 documentaries that cover these jobs.
When is a trade considered lost? I ask this because if they have recorded it, it is because they are not completely lost... Indeed. There are some that have been completely lost, such as the cart makers or the batifolia, who are the ones who made gold leaf to decorate religious images. However, there are others who have recovered, but in a festive tone or in line with maintaining the tradition as happens with the stone workers in Quintanar de la Sierra, where every year they bake a batch of stones to see how that work was done, or the nabateros of Sobrarbe , who every year have a party to lower the wood down the rivers for an entire morning... And there are others that still, fortunately, have not been lost, such as transhumance. However, they are at a point of considerable decline and at great risk of disappearing at the moment. The CHARCOAL.