A five-movement animated suite that transforms urban decay and personal mourning into a visual refuge. Through the singularity of the small, and by exploring the urban skin through the ephemeral traces of Valencia’s street art, Microcosmos is an experimental documentary animation that immerses us in the collection of existence.

My creative process stems from a personal obsession with collecting the ephemeral. Every piece of urban art—from the grand mural to the small sticker—that I encounter in my city, Valencia, or during my travels, is captured and archived, becoming a digital relic in my own Cabinet of Curiosities. In this short film, that intimate inventory comes to life through three key figures who embody the Microcosmos’ dichotomies: Pedro Mecinas, painter of nature and the volatile; Israel Nicolás, painter of the mysterious and the magical; and Manuel Lorenzo (1940–2025), my father, a carpenter of the infinite, whose craft anchors the fleeting nature of street art to tradition and to what endures.