Jaumear

Not long ago I participated in the shooting of an internal video for a Bellmunt’s museum. They picked me as an apprentice “fonador” or the one who extracts lead out of the stone and makes ingots out of it. And it was because, as they told me afterwards, I had a remarkable resemblance with a guy in one of the historic pictures taken years ago (from the back).

Anyway, the fact is I had to start a wild journey to Sant Fruitós del Bages. In the midday train. All filled with screaming mothers and bawling children

-Carmen, don’t stand on the seats.- I don’t hate all children, but la Carmen, uuuuuh, la Carmen… That was not a kid but the most graphic definition ever put on earth (and inside a train) of what annoying means. For an hour and a half la Carmen and I, and her glorious f… mother shared the trip.

Then I got to the shooting set. And my headache and hatred against kids were gone. There it was, like a little piece of heaven turned into a set, the biggest chroma I’ve ever saw in my life.

This was to become a furnace in postproduction.

Just a few arrangements in the atrezzo: stones, shovels and some other tools we’d have to use to fake the lead making process. And, of course, clothes.

And the master, so I could become his apprentice.

If you ever happen to end up in Bellmunt and don’t know what to do, pay a visit to the museum and watch me sweat.