La Fuerza was made by Ángela Peinado and Teresa Rojas, prison artistic monitors, in collaboration with imprisoned parents in the Project of the Education and Parental Responsibility Group at Catalonia’s Brians 2 prison, led by Núria Pujol. The video is dedicated to all the boys and girls who have a father or mother in prison, distanced yet further from imprisoned parents because of coronavirus-related lockdowns. The music is from Facto Delafé.
Ángela Peinado and Teresa Rojas, artistic monitors of the Education and Parental Responsibility group, wrote the following about the video:
We started working with all of the complications that the present situation brings: restrictions, outreach problems, problems finding spaces. We were unable to make the video just anywhere because social closeness was too dangerous. But we finally found a free space in the prison – just a floor and the wall. This floor helped us to fly, it let us act out someone pretending to be Superman or a comet floating through the sky, and also to play amongst ourselves.
Of course, the project is designed to be understandable for children, as they tend to use more symbolic, dreamlike, playful language. For this reason, we spent a lot of time thinking about how to convey this message; it seemed to be more relatable for children and in any case, this fantasy, this excitement gives a magic touch to this message. This fantasy gave us the exact quality that we wanted to capture, because the message is one of love. What better way to convey this emotion than with excitement and magic? For the few seconds that each one of the parents participates, the message is very clear: “This is for you…” – and this is an idea that could be received with intensity and emotion.
And that’s the last meaning of the La Fuerza project, the meaning of conveying, of doing, of sending this message of creating bonds and not isolating oneself, of looking others in the eye.