A cassette with 18 songs in which Camarón, Lucho Gatica and, very significantly, the Catalan rumba of "La lista de la compra" by La Cabra Mecánica and María Jiménez all rub shoulders. A personal collage, with a distinctly Lynchian feel, intentionally devoid of any explicit meaning. And a letter written with a Bic biro, with which Isabel Coixet underlines the handmade nature of her gesture and, in passing, pays tribute to torrijas, clay water jugs and open-air summer cinemas.
The filmmaker (Sant Adrià del Besós, 1960) nostalgically champions, in short, a present that is on the verge of extinction, which may have vanished altogether by 2076. That is the year when box 1586 at the Instituto Cervantes will be opened, where the honouree has deposited these objects as part of her legacy to the public institution devoted to promoting the Spanish language.
