- Marc Larre Miranda, a young man influenced by the Situationist Movement, travels from Barcelona to New York in order to experience a self-imposed "rite of passage" journey. Marc's family and best friend back home are only half aware of his challenge with survival and while the New York streets are filled with the exploitation of the tragic 9/11 event, Marc has turned to art; creating matchbooks with the cutout of the New York Skyline in homage to the city he has come to love.—Abe Shainberg
- Souvenir Views premiered in 2003 at The Tribeca Film Festival and Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba. 2004 in Gerona, Spain. Aired on the IFC channel.
Marc Larre Miranda, influenced by the Situationist Movement and Guy Debord, visits New York to live an extreme experience in order to grow as a young man. Fate gives him the 9/11 World Trade Center attack, the most horrific terrorist attack on U.S. as the backdrop of his rite of passage while homeless and penniless in that neighborhood. Marc takes on the challenge, and understands that in order to heal and survive from such a terrifying experience, he will need to creatively transcend the ugliness into a positive and hopeful act. From used matchbooks he picks up off the street, or have been donated to him by local restaurants he cuts out the beautiful skyline of New York, which becomes a poetic statement, and homage to the great city that welcomed him. On Prince Street in Soho, during cold winter days you would find Marc standing behind his unfolding shop, making friends, and selling his matchbooks to any passerby, breath taken as they caught a glimpse of his imaginative work of art. Marc has become an active participant, a faithful revolutionary in the progressive motion of survival. I follow his journey over the span of 1½ years, and document this independent spirit progress into the life of an industrialist, and student at the prestigious Cooper Union.
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