Barcelona Burning

[1] A reflection on the 2019–2020 Catalan protests, the film consists of hot wax painting superimposed on the Barcelona telephone directory.

[2] The film was commissioned by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona after the riots broke out just a few days before Ushev's scheduled talk at the centre about his creative process.

The film premiered in February 2020 at the Animac festival in Lleida, Spain.

[1] It was later screened in the New Alchemists program at the 2020 Festival du nouveau cinéma, where it was the winner of the National Dada Prize.

[3] It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.