Buenas noches, España
Raya Martin – ES/PH 2011 – 80 min. 
Sc: Raya Martin – C: Víctor Iriarte – E: Lawrence S. Ang, Víctor Iriarte – S: Manuel Alvero – With Andrés Gertrúdix, Pilar López de Ayala – P: Pantalla Partida
DV – Spain
German Premiere
Spanish colonial domination has a very unusual translation in this experimental road movie. Raya Martin took an anecdote about a Filipino soldier who suddenly wakes up and finds himself in Mexico City in 1593. A case of teleportation, and the same goes for the holiday trip by the lovers in the film. They stop the car to admire a mountain panorama, stroll through the city, pull faces at each other and visit a museum, where they exhibit themselves to each other with corny surrender. The scenes, edited associatively, are regularly repeated. Are the protagonists about to be shot off to a different place or time? And is that because they are under the influence of drugs? Martin designs his film as a psychedelic LSD trip: the images are oversaturated in bright reds, blues, yellows and pinks and supported by a grinding and scratchy soundtrack. In his visual essay, Martin reflects on being stuck in time. An obsession with history - the colonial past of Spain, Mexico and the Philippines - has blocked the couple. – IFF Rotterdam
Raya Martin, born in 1984 in Manila, Philippines. Graduated from the University of the Philippines Film Institute in 2005. He is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in the Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. He is the recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Films (selection): A Conscientious Object - or: The Reality of Olaf 1999 – The Island at the End of the World 2004 – Indio Nacional 2006 – Autohystoria 2007 (UX’07) – Now Showing 2008 – Next Attraction 2008 – Possible Lovers 2008 – Independencia 2009 – Buenas noches, España 2011