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Context:

The collapse of the San José mine in northern Chile, where 33 miners were trapped, happened in the same city where I grew up. The city was filled with journalists from all over the world, and what was a tragedy underground, was activation on the surface. The hotels full, the streets crowded with cameras, etc. It was as if inhabitants of other places were taking over this city called Copiapó. And in the chain of events in show business and capitalism, once the miners were rescued, they were simultaneously forgotten. Then Hollywood made a movie and the issue was closed.

Film:

I decided to film my own version of this landslide. I thought about how to recreate this mine. And, as a playwright I thought: every fictional character comes from a landslide, is rescued by fiction from the back of a stage. With that premise I created the character of Edmundo, one of the survivors. Edmundo would be the first man to be eaten underground if they were not found.
To later create Raquel, a woman who eats poop. She feeds on her own waste, which becomes her food. She is a chain of self-sufficiency. This chain is completed when she interrupts her diet to eat Edmundo.

Energy:

This film did not receive any audiovisual funding at the beginning, and all the resources were obtained thanks to the support of the communities that live near the mine where the collapse occurred. I brought together many artists from the region and a film with a regional identity was created, from the Atacama desert. This film is a poem to tragedy, a hallucination of real events. It is one more stone of the desert. A precious stone for me in my career as a filmmaker, which is limited only by my own region and territory. I need to make this film known, just as the rescue of the 33 miners was made known