Experiencing Interruptions?

CoTtOn RaT

Cinematographic letter born from a conversation with a Mexican immigrant. Where she relates that on the first journey she had in the desert to cross the mexican border into the United States of America, she did not know if he was having nightmares or if she was awake... since she saw cottons and rats getting fuse with his memory.

  • Berenice López Quintana
    Director
  • Farid Evangelista Gutiérrez
    Director
  • Berenice López López
    Writer
  • Farid Evangelista Gutiérrez
    Writer
  • Berenice López Quintana
    Cinematographers
  • Farid Evangelista Gutiérrez
    Cinematographers
  • Berenice López Quintana
    Editors
  • Farid Evangelista Gutiérrez
    Editors
  • Berenice López Quintana
    Music
  • Farid Evangelista Gutiérez
    Music
  • Berenice López Quintana
    Producer
  • Farid Evangelista Gutiérrez
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    RaTa AlGoDóN
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Poetry, Surrealism
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 55 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Celaya Experimental Film Fest
    Celaya,Guanajuato
    Mexico
    October 2, 2023
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Berenice López Quintana, Farid Evangelista Gutiérrez

Berenice Lopéz Quintana and Farid Evangelista are two Mexican multidisciplinary artists.

The training of each one in various artistic and humanistic areas has led their collaboration to create projects in which they explore the limits of the arts.

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Berenice López Quintana y Farid Evangelista son dos artistas multidisciplinarixs mexicanxs.

La formación de cada uno en diversas áreas artísticas y humanísticas ha llevado a su colaboración para crear proyectos en los que exploran los límites de las artes.

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Director Statement

One day we were in a park, when a Mexican migrant sat on the same bench where we were and told us about his experiences crossing the desert to reach the United States of America. She told us that when he lived that experience at times she did not know if he was awake or asleep.

This encounter provoked the need to explore cinematically his experience with rats and cottons candy (stuffed), with the dreams, wakefulness and nightmares of the migrant as the driving axis.
No animals were hurt during the making of this film, a stuffed rat was used.

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Un día nos encontrábamos en un parque cuando una migrante mexicana se sentó en la misma banca en la que estábamos, tras unos minutos, nos relató sus vivencias al cruzar el desierto para llegar a Estados Unidos. Aseguró que al vivir esa compleja experiencia, por momentos no sabía si estaba despierta o dormida…

Este impactante encuentro nos provocó la necesidad de explorar cinematográficamente este problema social y urgente de graves consecuencias mundiales.

Buscamos crear un proyecto mediante la experiencia y las imágenes incrustadas en la memoria de la migrante repleta de ratas y algodones, a través de los sueños, la vigilia, las alucinaciones, la fantasía y las pesadillas provocadas por el cansancio mental y físico como el eje conductor de esta experimentación visual y sonora.

Ningún animal fue lastimado durante la realización de esta película (se usó una rata de peluche).