Hierve El Agua (The Water Boils)

Experimental documentary short filmed in Mexico. Water that sounds as if it’s boiling, but it is not: it is only the sound. From mysterious pans of still photos taken from a tourist point of view, to the camera suddenly bumping along a back-road hitched ride in the back of a pick-up truck up a mountain to a remote mineral spring in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Trying to communicate across borders of language and social rules. A beautiful stranger, repressed desire that bubbles out of the spring. Borders of space, language, and culture: travel/ tourism. English/Spanish. Still photography/moving image. Life (water) /death (coffins, vulture)? Sound/image. Body language/spoken language? Distance/desire for the filmed? The barriers of language inundated with a quiet hidden desire. Music by the experimental sound band Matmos, used with permission.
https://vimeo.com/205979052 password: Mexico
Bio: Liena Vayzman is a photographer and art historian now making experimental film. She earned the MA and PhD in History of Art at Yale University and is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at City University of New York - LaGuardia Community College in New York City. www.lienavayzman.org