FRANCO

In a split screen, black and white images show the body of General Franco, the dictator who had governed Spain since 1939, being placed on a bier after his death in 1975, and the young king Juan Carlos, who would go on to lead the country towards a democratic regime. The images alternate with images of historical paintings and sculptures. Vergara traces the cinematic images with his brush, while the hand he is painting with moves between the images and a glass screen. Sometimes the brush moves across the glass, leaving paint sweeps behind. Vergara is intimating that he tales his paint from the cinematic images, to eventually leave it on the filmed glass.