Return to Casa Ros

This film is the gift I couldn't give to my grandfather in life: Alberto Ros, son of the photographer Bartolomé Ros. His last years were marked by Alzheimer's disease and by a peculiar and significant relationship with Photography.

I have worked for 7 years in a radically independent way, self-financing the project with family help and counting on some disinterested collaborations, among which the creative advice of filmmaker Victor Erice stands out. However, the final finishing phase requires an investment so that the film looks as it deserves and can be submitted to festivals. Crowdfunding is a way not only to finance those final finishes but also an invitation for this work and its healing value to be yours, your family's and/or your institution's.

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What's the movie about?

Return to casa Ros is the story of an initiatory journey in Guatemala through which the protagonist finds a possibility for a way out to the end of his life crisis. This journey involves coming back to his place of origin, Madrid, where the protagonist reencounters his grandfather who, even having lost most of his memory, seems to unexpectedly wake up from his lethargy in front of the camera and the photographs that were once the business he ran.

Note of intentions

This story takes the shape of an intimate journal in first person about my journey to discovering my family roots as a way to reflect upon our relationship with Family Roots, Time, Memory and Images.

At the core of this story there is a mystery, one that I believe was inherited, consciously or unconsciously, generation after generation and it triggers a «way back», both literally and metaphorically.

What others said

«Naturally integrates, without striving, the family genre with a large-scale reflection that interests us all»
- Mercedes Álvarez, filmmaker

«A life testimonial that doesn't leave us indifferent. The riddle of time and friendly fire»
- Eliane Caffé, filmmaker

«An affectionate and quiet gaze that overflows sensitivity, love, quest, melancholy and truth. Like every good film it's many films»
- Fundación Escritura(s)

What's left and what is your contribution for?

The editing of the film has already been completed. The goal with this crowdfunding is to conclude the post-production phase. The pending tasks to finish the postproduction are: music composition, sound mixing, color grading, translation and subtitling, master export (DCP).

Attention, important! If the target is reached before the 40-day deadline, then I may aim for funding for the distribution phase. In such a case, I would offer new and extended rewards such as: access to archival materials, full interviews, interview with the director, discarded sequences...

The Rewards

Credits and technical data

Script and Direction Ian Ingelmo Ros

Production Ian Ingelmo Ros

Creative Advice Víctor Erice.

OST Chefa Alonso.

Executive Producer Elena Ros

Camera & Photography Javier Botella, Kevin Otero, Joaquín Pinedo Muñiz, Sergio Ramires e Ian Ingelmo.

Editing Ian Ingelmo.

Sound Design Peter Memmer.

Locations Guatemala / España / Marruecos

Length 74 min.

The team

Ian Ingelmo Ros

Ian Ingelmo is a filmmaker and mindfulness teacher. He has taught documentary workshops for people without any previous experience in Guatemala. He has worked for various productions of Victor Erice who became his master and gave creative advice in the production of his most ambitious work to date, Return to Casa Ros, his first feature documentary.

Chefa Alonso

Saxofonista y percusionista de free jazz e improvisación libre, compone música para espectáculos teatrales, de danza, poesía, circo y espectáculos audiovisuales, además de realizar una importante actividad docente, impartiendo talleres de improvisación a músicos, actores, bailarines … y dirigiendo orquestas de improvisadores como OMEGA (Orquesta de Música Espontánea de Galicia), Foco (Orquesta de improvisadores de Musicalibre) o Entenguerengue (Orquesta de improvisadores de Andalucía). Es cofundadora de Musicalibre y ha organizado durante varios años el Festival Internacional de Improvisación Hurta Cordel, en Madrid. Es doctora en improvisación libre y composición por la Universidad de Brunel (Londres, 2007) y ha publicado los libros: Enseñanza y aprendizaje de la improvisación libre. Propuestas y reflexiones (Madrid, 2014, Editorial Alpuerto) e Improvisación libre. La composición en movimiento (2008. Editorial Dos Acordes).

Peter Memmer

Peter Memmer se licencia en Sonido por la ECAM (Madrid) en el 2010. Anteriormente estudia Teoría de Cine y del Teatro en Berlín y Danza Contemporánea en Arnhem (Holanda). Su interés gira alrededor de las posibilidades narrativas de espacios sonoros, sea la sonorización multicanal del cine, instalaciones performativas o conciertos binaurales para cascos.

Trabaja cómo editor de sonido en varios proyectos audiovisuales para cine y TV.

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«La Fotografía se convierte entonces para mí en un curioso médium, en una nueva forma de alucinación: falsa a nivel de percepción. verdadera a nivel del tiempo: una alucinación contemplada de algún modo, modesta, dividida (por un lado «no está ahí», por el otro «sin embargo ha sido efectivamente»): imagen demente barnizada de realidad.»

 - Roland Barthes