The Creator
Filmmaker and researcher.
Overview
Marie de Caba is created by Valentí Ferrer, a filmmaker and researcher working at the intersection of narrative, memory, and artificial intelligence.
His work explores how contemporary technologies can be used not as spectacle, but as tools for listening, reconstruction, and presence.
Authorship and approach
Valentí Ferrer develops Marie de Caba as a long-form docu-fiction project grounded in real archives, historical research, and a rigorous narrative framework.
Artificial intelligence is used as a creative language, enabling the reconstruction of voices, spaces, and encounters that no longer exist, always in service of story, memory, and inquiry.
The project does not seek to simulate truth, but to create the conditions in which questions can be asked again.
Within the project, Ferrer appears under the name Val Ferren.
Val Ferren is not a fictional character, but a narrative position: the voice of the listener, the interviewer, and the investigator who remains in doubt.
He does not represent the audience, nor does he speak with authority.
His role is to ask, to listen, and to stay present with what emerges.
This separation allows the project to distinguish clearly between authorship and presence.
Val Ferren
A personal origin
The figure of Marie de Caba emerges from a real family archive connected to the creator’s wife. Documents, oral memory, and private traces became the starting point for an investigation that expands beyond the personal into shared questions about memory, silence, and continuity.
This intimate origin does not limit the project.
It explains its necessity.
Ongoing work
Marie de Caba unfolds across multiple connected spaces — the interview series, La Sala de Marie, and Val’s Notebooks — and will continue to evolve over time.
The project is conceived not as a closed work, but as a living investigation.