MADRID, EXT.

Film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid in the form of a vast visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations, where commerce and wildlife, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect. (93 min.)

Directed by Juan Cavestany

Production: Cuidado con el perro

Screenplay: Juan Cavestany

Edit: Juan Cavestany, Raúl de Torres, Cristobal Fernández

Music: Guillermo Galván

Sound: Valeria Arcieri, Pelayo Gutierrez

Color: Javier Delgado

Premiere: 28/08/2025

I had always dreamed of taking part in a documentary essay that would take years to complete, and I couldn’t imagine doing it with anyone other than Juan. It has been both a technical and artistic challenge.
It all began with a call from him to go out and film shop signs around Madrid, almost as a game. Little by little, what started as something spontaneous grew and took shape, becoming a living archive with more than 150 hours of footage shot across the city.
Throughout the process, I joined the shoots whenever I could, while Juan, tireless as ever, kept filming week after week, several days at a time. I seized every free moment to be part of this adventure — an experience that has combined time, friendship and cinema.