Sentimiento

Ona Lasierra
2023 
Video 
Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition 



Popular culture is a set of activities or cultural manifestations created and made for the people, the popular or “lower” classes. These include traditions, songs, legends, superstitions, etc. Folklore, on the other hand, is the expression of the culture of a people: crafts, dances, festivals, customs, etc., and emphasizes tradition, unlike popular culture.

Both are linked to a nationality with its own culture, and knowing these stories, traditionally transmitted orally, tie you to your land, create a sense of belonging to your culture and the people who make it up, create an identity, as Mikhail Bakhtin (scholar of popular culture in the Middle Ages) says.

This identity is based on cultural values, traditions, belief systems and customs that express the uniqueness of each country or nation.

“Festivals, gatherings, meetings, encounters, etc. are a key element of the social and cultural life of a city. By experiencing them, the feeling of cultural identity is reinforced, transmitted from generation to generation, providing community members with a sense of continuity, social cohesion and belonging.” Marinva, play and education and ICUB-Barcelona City Council.

As a person who actively participates in various manifestations of popular Catalan folk culture, I know firsthand how these activities connect me and the people with whom I share fondness with our cultural identity, bring you closer to the national history and preserve this cultural and people's historical memory.

Therefore, the audiovisual is about Catalan folk culture and the emotions it provokes in the participants, both active and spectators; but treated from a subjective perspective of an insider in these communities.