The Remnants of the Pass

Human are a plague. We are the specie with the strongest colonizing longing of our planet. A Tree Is a Tree is a journey between the most unspoiled piece of land on the planet and the oldest tree in the world. In the film the images talk to who watches. The spectator is the object. The pictures the subject. A no human voice tell us that what we see is so partial that it barely close to reality.

The discovery of some unpublished recordings leads Juan Carlos, leader of Itoiz, to ponder the dissolution of the band at the height of their success, after having adopted a more accessible pop style which he now disowns. Juan Carlos begins a cathartic journey to the essence of the band, reliving their beginnings in the 70s as a progressive rock group in Mutriku, in an attempt to reconcile with the past.

After his death, Ruiz Vergara left dozens of sketches for films he was never able to make. The Andalusian filmmaker only directed one film, Rocío, heartbreaking and fascinating, cursed after its judicial censorship in the early years of Spanish democracy. Since then, his projects remained in the imagination. In Um filme by Fernando Ruiz Vergara we take up again the films dreamed by Fernando to film them, from the present, as a gesture of resistance.