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We're at an exhibition called "The Visitable Warehouse"

in the National Museum of Natural Sciences.

I'm the current curator of the bird collection.

A museum curator

is responsible for taking care of the collection.

It's easy to understand it with the simile of a library.

People go there to read books and instead, I have specimens.

I think looking at animals fascinates us

because we don't realize that we are animals.

We're in such strange cities

that we believe we're something different.

When you come here you realize that we are primates,

we're inside nature.

I think a documentary is for informing about a subject.

For example, an animal documentary,

you put it on and it tells you about animals.

But a movie

tries to tell a story taken from a book

or that the director has made up.

Attention ladies, the upholsterer is here.

We upholster all types of sofas...

Is it already recording?

Well, I'm Carmina.

I've had this video store for 35 years.

My parents had a movie theater on Sepúlveda Street.

All day long we were inside the cinema,

we'd come from school, have dinner inside the cinema,

do our homework...

For me it meant watching one movie after another and I was happy.

The thing is, when the small cinemas came along later,

my father had to close down.

And I felt very sad.

I set up this video store when I was 22, I think.

It was what I knew best, what I knew the most about:

films, actors, directors, everything.

The video store is like my home.

It's a place where I continue to watch films

and I'm still able to speak about reviews, directors, everything.

Of course, I think about it a lot because it'll be over soon,

because of the platforms, etc.

But people keep coming, the long-time customers.

For me it's like saying that time isn't passing

because I'll always be at the movies,

even if I'm not in the movie.

But for me expressing what movies are and to people as well

is like still living in cinema.

"FRIENDS OF THE RECORD" BUY-SELL RECORDS, CD'S, DVD'S

My name is Javier Morán Cheladán.

I run this shoe store that I inherited from my parents.

What we sell most here are house slippers,

for women, men and children.

We have customers from different neighborhoods

who know us and come here to buy from us.

I love Madrid,

it has lots of things to distract you.

When I go on vacation or whatever,

I look forward to coming here

to see people I know and to keep selling slippers.

I mean, it makes me happy.

WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF WORK ATTIRE

CHANGING ROOM

DRYCLEANER AMERICAN PRESSING

DRYCLEANER

DRUG / PERFUME STORE

I'm Amparo Berlinches.

I'm one of the few Madrilenians my age, I'm 78 now,

that are third-generation Madrid.

I'm an architect, a specialist in monument restoration,

and I've worked all my life in everything that involves

the protection of a heritage such as that of Madrid Capital,

which is huge, immeasurable.

I wonder and I'm uneasy about what's going to happen to Madrid.

We're making a Madrid for other people.

The uniqueness of the architecture

that pertains to each country has been lost.

I really like that Madrid still has that uniqueness.

For now.

LUXURY APARTMENTS HERE

My name is Miguel González Sastre.

I live here, in the same building.

I get up at eight-thirty, a quarter to nine.

I have breakfast upstairs with my wife,

go downstairs

and start to get in the way in the kitchen, back and forth.

At 12 I make lunch, always.

I take off my kitchen jacket,

put on my dining room one, take orders, take out plates.

Lunch is from 1 to 4 p.m.

At 5, when no one is left, everyone goes.

I have a one-hour siesta

and go downstairs again and prepare things for tomorrow.

Today I have physio, from 5 to 6 I go to physio.

I come back to make pisto for tomorrow and the day after.

And I have to make some dessert because there's not enough left.

And that's how it is.

I'm the oldest chef in Madrid.

There's no one 83 years old

who's working in the kitchen all day.

GENTLEMEN'S HAIRDRESSER

I'll introduce myself: José Sánchez Rodríguez, Pepe,

I've been on these premises on Virgen de Lourdes since 1978.

The Madrid championships were held every two years.

I participated in '85.

I did the first hairstyle, the one you see there.

I wanted to retouch the forehead because I had lots of time left,

I overdid the heat,

and when you overdo the heat the hair becomes unruly,

so you have to dampen it again to get it back...

In this case it was the fringe.

I couldn't do it, I got nervous and I messed it up.

On the other hand, when I did the work you see there,

it was the best there.

Everyone in the room was watching my work.

People thought I was the champion,

but they didn't know I'd done the first job badly.

What happened?

In the end I came fifth.

I made a mistake, but I could've been champion.

My name is Jesús Clemente Sierra.

I live in the neighborhood of El Pilar.

I come here to the Chamartín bowling ally

to train on Tuesdays and Thursdays,

and on Saturdays and Sundays we normally compete,

either in Madrid or any other part of Spain,

or even overseas.

I'm from the province of León,

but I've been in Madrid since I was 14.

And at 22 I set up on my own.

I got to have 6 or 7 fish shops

and I started bowling when I was already 45 years old.

What I like about bowling is that it means constant improvement.

That is, today I do this, tomorrow I'll do that,

to see if I can get better.

For me it's a major incentive, to try to constantly improve.

To try to, at least.

GENTLEMEN

LADIES

MEDICINE

PHILOSOPHY

REST IN PEACE!

If you look out you can go down the street reading the city.

YOU LIVE STRESSED OUT

Because the city tells you things.

It's telling you what each place is.

I have kind of an odd hobby. I love looking at old signs.

ASSORTED DELICACIES

Posters, signs,

old door handles.

I'm Carlos Rodríguez, we're in Ros Springs.

Here we have just over 7000 examples.

Our largest spring is one used for the tunnelling of the M30.

And the smallest is one that is used for electronics and such.

I'm from Madrid.

I grew up in Moratalaz, I still live in Moratalaz

and I'm in love with my city.

I really like to look at things, the materials,

textures, colors.

Because I believe the magic of things lies in simplicity.

At least in my case, I thought so as a child

and I do now too, as an adult.

BAKERY

HERBOLARIUM

LAWYER

CHURRERÍA - POTATO CHIP FACTORY

GIRLS' LINGERIE

GARAGE

CAFÉ

STORES

LAUNDRY

ICE CREAM

GENERAL TRANSPORT

I.T. SUPPORT CLASSES, FRENCH, ENGLISH, FROM 3, YEARS OLD

STEWS

SPARE PARTS

LOCKSMITH

BUTCHER, SAUSAGE SHOP

DRY CLEANERS

FOOT SANATORIUM

SEAFOODS

OPTICIAN

UPHOLSTERY

CAFÉ BAR

MATTRESSES

BUTTONS - STOCKINGS

STATIONERY - LIQUIDATION

CAFÉ BAR

IRONWORK PARTS CUT TO MEASURE

BEER, SEAFOOD BAR

KEYBOARD 3 - COMPUTERS

CAFÉ

GHOST TRAIN

EXIT

TECHNICAL SERVICE

DENTIST

PHOTOCOPIES – FAX ON THE SPOT ID PHOTOS

SERVICE STATION WASHING – OIL - GARAGE

BAKERY – PASTRY SHOP FOOD

REMNANTS AND CLOTHING

PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO

GARAGE

GLASSWARE

FOOTWEAR

DRIVING SCHOOL

CAFÉ

DRIVING SCHOOL

STATIONERY - BOOKSTORE

HERBOLARIUM

NUTS AND DRIED FRUITS - VARIANTS BAKERY

GARAGE

DRY CLEANER'S

DANCE HALL WITH ORCHESTRA

I'm Lola Robles, I'm 55,

I've lived in Madrid for...

over forty-odd years.

I really like going to museums

because when I go inside

it's a very beautiful sound.

That echo that spreads throughout the room.

The sensation that you're entering a sanctuary.

When I have a painting in front of me,

I'm so thrilled that it seems like I'm touching it.

It seems like only the painting and I are there.

When I first came here,

we once walked from school,

all the way down Paseo de la Castellana,

I think we made it to Plaza España.

And I remember seeing those buildings, that spaciousness,

as if you felt like kind of a protagonist.

And you say, damn, here... Sure, we all had...

the memory of films, so much traffic, colorful cars...

It's like you were on that stage,

saying: "I feel like the star of a movie here.

Something big is going to happen here because

this is pretty important".

And well, I've been progressively losing my eyesight.

Maybe the difference

is that we've changed our gaze, we might say.

We no longer see Madrid in the same way.

And we evoke for ourselves a kind of memory,

something that when your senses are intact,

you still see the city with the same parameters as before.

Our photography of Madrid

is totally different,

because it's made up of smells, taste, touch,

sounds, emotions...

Above all, emotions.

SURGICAL ZONE ENTRY FORBIDDEN

SURGERY IN PROGRESS

PHOTO BOOTH

MEATS – POULTRY – COLD CUTS

Delta 2, Polo here.

Zebra 3 to 4-2.

Go ahead, 4-2.

We're on Alicante St. We'll look over Bailén St.

and see if we can shoot the bus from there.

Okay, thanks, 4-2.

It's the least I can do.

Polo, are you receiving 1-4-2?

Yes, go ahead.

Copy.

I'm Lidia López Manzanares,

a neurologist at La Princesa Hospital.

I head the unit for movement disorders.

If right now I had to make a clinical diagnosis of Madrid,

I'd say: "What's going on?"

I'd go to the schools, Primary Education,

and be concerned that they don't copy anxiety,

that emotional life was the most important thing.

And in some way they were the seed, right?

And they taught the rest of us.

My name is Miguel Ángel Mendoza,

I devote myself to photography

and I'm the third generation in my family of photographers.

My business is on the first floor.

Previously, a photographic studio that had status

and was considered a photographic studio, not a photo store,

had to be on the first floor.

In 1960, in Vallecas, Miguel Ángel was very famous.

I think everyone in Vallecas who got married went to this studio.

It was the golden age of photography

and one always went to the photographer.

Now we do portfolios, which are in fashion now

photos for Instagram, ID photos,

and we're surviving little by little.

It's not like it was before,

but there's one crucial thing, the love of photography.

Since I like it and love it

I don't look at the money so much now,

but at what I do every day

and my satisfaction on delivering a job

and the client giving me a smile.

Perfect.

DRY CLEANERS

MOVIES SLOT

My name is Jorge.

I'm the son of Carmina, who created Star Video Club.

It was an important place for many people in the neighborhood.

She passed away about a year ago,

so this can't carry on the same,

it's not the same without her.

So we're here today removing the signs

and gathering the most symbolic things in order to preserve them.