LAS BRUJAS

LAS BRUJAS (THE WITCHES), along with LA ORDEN DE LOS PRESAGIOS (THE ORDER OF THE SIGNS), is part of the hybrid video-essay anthology film YOU'RE ON THE BALCONY TALKING ABOUT YOUR DREAMS (2018).

ABOUT

Between the image and the word falls a shadow. Within that shadow, hidden from view, is a spirit that connects us all, beneath the skin. Collage allows an unexpected unfolding of meanings for images and concepts. Thought becomes witchcraft. A film becomes a dilligent accident.

Towards a poetic of accidental cinema:

1. Today we are interested in narrative reality, that which is always written in quotation marks. Every affront against reality in the name of art is a smuggling of reality itself. Accidental cinema cannot happen with an expected result of what the final work will look like; it must witness its creation as it occurs. All art is autobiographical. All biography is made up of fragments.

2. Accidents might be conceived in different ways. An idea must be developed from its conception to its most viable end. You must be willing to find accidents and constantly create conditions for new accidents to happen.

3. The work grows towards the concrete from the uncertain. The final work is a decision made between an infinite number of possibilities on how the work could exist in its most contingent state.

4. Today our identity is a fiction of media and marketing. But the world seen from above is all fractals and an irresoluble flow; it hides within itself a stillness that we did not know before. At this moment we abandon the spectacle of ourselves in virtue of a new biography as a shadow-play on the wall or an inconceivable dream.

5. Accidental cinema is one which finds its origin in writing, but this writing must never be the cinematographic script. Accidental cinema must create a kind of impact that would otherwise be impossible to generate with any other medium. However, the film should not conform to any categorical sense stemming from cinema.

6. The ultimate goal of all art is to turn yourself from the inside out. No more univocal events. The accident will reveal a whole and unsuspected inner world; it will be a participant in all that we are and all we stopped being on the road. These films will be like the dawn in which you want to talk about everything that happens inside you or lean towards the balcony of the night. It will be the desire for honesty and unapologetic truths, to tell our story and then flee forever to the darkest clearing of the forest.