The Lives of the ‘Lost Gloves’: Stories and Spaces of Emigration During the Crisis (In a Foreign Land, Bollaín)

Abstract

This essay offers an analysis of Icíar Bollaín’s 2014 documentary film En tierra extraña (In a Foreign Land), which provides a look at the crisis from the perspective of one sector it affected profoundly: the new Spanish emigrants. By focusing on the representation of spaces in the film and on the stories about the recession captured in the testimonies of various Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, the study investigates the narrative and aesthetic devices that the filmmaker employs to narrate the repercussions of the crisis in two distinct geographic locations (Spain and Scotland).