Admiration for a humble and simple life, truly connected to nature, 'forced' young director Pablo Adieg Almudevar to document a film about an old man who is the last inhabitant of a village lost in the mountains. Although at first it seems like a sad story, the life of the protagonist who watches from day to day from his house the decay and ruins of what used to be full of life, the movie ‘God’s Acre’ is not sad. Although the conversation he has with the 'quiet' neighbours is, in fact, the talk with death, the young director whose film we are watching at the Mediterranean Film Festival assures us that his protagonist is one of the happiest people he has met.

Perhaps it is something that is implicit in me, when I met José María and his way of life, I felt a strong need to enter his universe with the camera. I have always been attracted to life in the rural environment, by its simplicity and its harmony with nature. Unfortunately, this way of living is already extinct, and in places like theis one, already empty, we only find the last vestiges of what it was. They are places full of ghosts, but where there are still people who live and live with them.

Who is the old man we are watching?
José María represents a generation and a way of life already forgotten. This man who was born in the same town where he continues to live, decided, when this place was empty, to continue living in the place he belonged, instead of looking for a more comfortable life in the city like the others.

It was a unique experience. As an inexperienced filmmaker I was, and I guess I still am, I found it violent for me to intrude with my camera in those intimate places of their daily life, as I said, because of inexperience, shyness and fear. I finally realized that he thanked our company, and said that he was there to be able to tell a story that fascinated me. I abandoned my fears and it ended up being a beautiful experience. Both I and the team enjoyed a very familiar atmosphere, and we ended up sharing and enjoying their routine, so it was finally not difficult.

Like I said, it's kind of unconscious, especially when you start. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to tell, I didn't have rationalized it, and I got carried away by my emotions. Everyone will draw their own conclusions from the film, for my part, after several years, I suppose I wanted to show a way of living that has already been lost and almost forgotten, especially in my country and among people my age. It is the admiration of a humble life, truly connected with nature, a simple life. Despite what a lot of people have told me, it's not a sad thing. José María is one of the happiest people I have ever met, he accepts death and continues with his life respecting those who lived with him and before him and without forgetting them, as in my opinion we would do.

Reminiscence was a short film about the Spanish Civil War in my village. I found an archive image where you could see fighters and real situations from that war, where the different streets and buildings of my village could be perfectly distinguished. What I did was project these images during the night, matching the facades of the present with the ruins caused by the war of the past, thus awakening the ghosts of the past.

That said, I get carried away with my emotions when I find a story, I haven't rationalized what kind of stories appeal to me the most. For now it seems to me that I am attracted to silence, I suppose because in the society in which we live we are surrounded by too much noise, sound and visual. I need to find and vindicate those places of silence and harmony.