Owners of Nothing

General Information

Original Title
Dueños De Nada
Author/Creator
Serrano, Sebastián Talavera, director.
Language
Spanish.
Subtitles
English
Published
Spain, 2003.
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (47 min.)
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00002409

Contents/Summary

Summary
Five-year-old Fatima has very poor eyesight: without glasses she is virtually blind. Most of her life takes place in a haze; it is only at school that she sees well, for there, in a locked drawer, lie her greatest treasure: blue spectacles with thick lenses. At the end of every school day, she has to put them back in the drawer. Fatima lives in El Vacie, a slum on the outskirts of Seville, Spain. Her parents are extremely poor; they have practically nothing, not even a proper roof over their heads and they cannot afford glasses for their daughter. In their shanty, which the first downpour will easily wash away, rats and other vermin have free play. There is no running water. In his film about the shockingly shabby El Vacie – one of the oldest slums of Europe – the young filmmaker Sebastián Talavera makes use of hip editing techniques and striking photography. Owners of Nothing is a poetic portrait of the slum and its people, devoting equal attention to daily misery and the zest of the children, who dream of a better life "anywhere, as long as it’s not in El Vacie".

Subjects

Genre
Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation
Owners of Nothing
Note
Duration: 00:47:00

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Call Number Status Shelving Location Public Note
DVD-ROMOSA Film LibraryFL Record 0683Available--
Digital filmOSA Film LibraryFL Record 0683
(HU_OSA_00002409.mp4)
AvailableAccess Copy, MP4 format