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¿SOY YO?

"Is it me?" is the project I presented, along with two other colleagues, to the contest that the University of Barcelona organized together with the Department of Equality in November 2015 to fight gender violence, and which we wont the first award ex-aequo. The contest was open to any kind of creation, an essay, a painting, a play, etc. We chose to make a video as it was one of the first practices we did on our own. 

From the first moment we started talking about how we wanted the video to be, we made clear we didn't want any cliché or topic. We did some research and quickly realized what we didn't want: we didn't want to make another video about the woman being a victim, where violence is taken for granted and where the man is just an extra.

The man is the main character in the cases of gender violence, as it is him who builds an unequal relationship, which quickly escalates to physical violence. What we wanted to show also in the video is that gender violence is not only when he put a hand on her, but all the microsexism that have been happening without noticing. As for example, being a "gentelman" where the woman is someone to take care of, or controlling the way she dresses, or asking her to do things she doesn't want, etc. Some of these attitudes are so rooted in society we barely notice them at the beginning. 

The video wants to put the focus on the male figure, telling him not to be violent; not on the woman, feeling sorry for her. We wanted to show that violence is a cycle, and once you cross the first step, it's easy it escalates quickly. Violence generates more violence

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It is also accesible on Youtube with subtitles. 

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Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Maya, Blender, Hiero  

Nora Porta Caballé

nportacaballe@gmail.com

London - Barcelona

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