1975, Madrid. After Franco's death, King Juan Carlos commits Spain to a
democratic process, ending forty years of bloody dictatorship.
To ensure a lasting transition to democracy, he will have to grant amnesty to the
atrocities committed during the civil war and the dictatorship period in
establishing the pact of forgetting (el pacto del olvido). Since then, society
Spanish is walled up in a labyrinthine silencio (silence): No pasa nada,
Nothing is happening. Since 2016, Philippe Dollo has been traveling around Spain
searches for traces of this troubled period; he surveys the territories,
meets witnesses, questions them and notes that in all regions, the
silence provokes a particular, intimate resonance in each family
Spanish. Everything is still before his eyes, present, painful, but a veil has
was thrown on the memory, burying the trials suffered by making them taboo.
No pasa Nada is a fragile and intimate documentary quest, in the form of a notebook.
notes, a labyrinthine journey into the depths of contemporary history
from Spain. Philippe Dollo was born in 1965 in Paris. He works as
freelance photographer since 1990. After living in New York from 1997 to 2009
where his work was regularly published and exhibited, he moved to Prague and
taught photography for four years at the French Institute. He lived
currently in Madrid.
