In the first two episodes of FOOTNOTES, we already found it difficult to define our guests, Frankie Pizá and Jaume Ripoll. In CAP3, we follow the journey of Julia de Castro, and it proves just as difficult.
Julia arrives at FOOTDISTRICT Madrid after putting the finishing touches to her first solo exhibition, La ausencia es la obra. The journey here is a familiar one: in Valverde, the neighbourhood where FOOTDISTRICT Madrid is located, the luthier who used to tune her violin had his workshop.
A life between disciplines
The violin and the exhibition might seem like two distant poles, but Julia de Castro’s life is full of unexpected connections. Her journey moves from classical theatre to performance, from music to cinema. During the conversation, we talk about her best-known role as an actress, but also about her other facets: historian, sound designer, cuplet singer and film director.
CAP3 of FOOTNOTES follows these leaps between disciplines, trying to uncover what lies behind Julia de Castro’s zigzags. Changing disciplines means starting again, learning new codes and accepting that there is always something left to discover.
From Ávila to the World
It all starts in Ávila, a city proud of its smallness that becomes the starting point for a question running through the episode: don’t we all come from somewhere different?
Julia carries something of that sense of smallness with her, adding fragments of every place she passes through. Always embracing the singularity of each one. That is why listening to her album La historiadora can take you to Mexico or Tucson. Watching On The Go might have you expecting a Southern accent from Julia. And from her time in Italy, she brought back an exhaustive study of a 17th-century text about prostitution.
Julia de Castro at FOOTNOTES
A conversation about changing direction, learning all over again and accepting that every new discipline also requires a certain degree of humility.
Because perhaps that is one of the constants running through her journey: not knowing exactly where the next stop will be, and having enough curiosity to get there.