Private Project

The Burst of Things / Where Are We Standing?

"The Burst of Things" and "Where Are We Standing?" are part of a transmedia project that mixes a podcast, a short film and an interactive platform, created by Border Podcast.

The Burst of Things is a sound series that tells the history of Chile’s social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them: the saucepans that were banged in the streets, the yellow vests worn by protesters, the turnstile that was vaulted over by students refusing to pay fares, the face masks worn on marches, and a unique interview at a retired Police Weapons Rehabilitation Center. The final episode was Constitutional Therapy, where the current Chilean Constitution, created in the middle of Pinochet's dictatorship, decides that it is ready to heal its past and go to therapy.

The social convulsion followed by the global pandemic has forced us to change many of our habits and priorities, overcoming our reluctance to change and relinquish what was known or normal. Each of us has had to look inward, to understand what is not working anymore and how we might stand again. So we came up with the question, Where are we standing right now?

"Where Are We Standing?" takes as its starting point the final episode of our podcast series, "The Burst of Things", a six part sound series about the history of Chile’s 2019 social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them.

In the last episode of our podcast, “Constitutional Therapy”, we listen to a distressed Chilean Constitution that goes to therapy in search of understanding its past. Through a number of regressions, the Constitution finds the origin of its trauma: an authoritarian, dictatorial and excluding past.

In "Where are we standing?" We will watch the Constitution starting a journey towards its death and disappearance.

This is a hybrid experimental short film where we take the Chilean contingency to the most intimate experience. Giving our Constitution a voice, life and emotions, creating a digital representation mixed with documentary footage of different filmmakers, in order to create a surreal journey that lead us to the inside of our most ingrained fears and beliefs as a society.

This transmedia project is our attempt to process and rethink our reality, while we see collapsing in front of our eyes the big institutions that once ruled us.

  • Maria Court
    Director
  • Trinidad Piriz
    Director
  • Maria Court
    Producer
  • Francisca Miles
    General Producer
  • Francisca Miles
    Assistant DIrector
  • Trinidad Piriz
    Scriptwriting
  • Benjamín Villalobos
    Scriptwriting
  • Paola Olea
    Visuals
  • Paola Olea
    Front End
  • Javier Garay
    Title
  • Javier Garay
    Web Design
  • Nicolás Aguirre
    Sound Design
  • Nicolás Aguirre
    Music
  • Trinidad Piriz
    Voices
  • Belén Fernández
    Voices
  • Nicolás Aguirre
    Voices
  • Franco Sanguinetti
    Camera
  • Maria Court
    Camera
  • Paola Olea
    Camera
  • Javier Garay
    Camera
  • Cristián Medina
    Drone
  • Franco Sanguinetti
    Drone
  • Leonardo Mena
    Drone
  • Vicente Fernández
    Drone
  • Jael Valdivia
    Editing
  • Maria Court
    Editing
  • Javier Garay
    Post Production
  • Benjamín Villalobos
    Post Production
  • Francisca Miles
    Post Production
  • María José Cifuentes
    Residency Nave
  • Constanza Espínola
    Residency Nave
  • Johnatan Inostroza
    Residency Nave
  • Cecilia Checa
    Residency Nave
  • Cristián González
    Residency Nave
  • Consuelo Laclaustra
    Residency Nave
  • Matthew Brown
    Consultant
  • Matthew Brown
    Historian
  • Madeline Weir
    Subtitles
  • Patricio Veloso
    Video Archives
  • Commercial Clip
    Video Archives
  • SVF TV
    Video Archives
  • Carlo Sánchez
    Sound Archives
  • Claudio Vargas
    Sound Archives
  • Rosa Arancibia
    Special Thanks
  • Elisa Lydiatt
    Special Thanks
  • Olivia Lydiatt
    Special Thanks
  • Amelia Ibáñez
    Special Thanks
  • Victoria Leyton
    Special Thanks
  • Esteban Fuica
    Special Thanks
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    El Estallido de las Cosas / Caes Tú También
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Podcast, Chile, Documentary, Interactive, short, film, web, new media, experimental, politics, society, fiction, transmedia
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 33 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 8, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    40,362 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Chile
  • Country of Filming:
    Chile
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Ars Electronica
    Linz
    Austria
    September 8, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Sheffield Doc/Fest
    Sheffield
    United Kingdom
    November 13, 2020
    Ghosts & Apparitions - Online Arts Programme
  • Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro
    Montevideo
    Uruguay
    November 14, 2020
  • FINNOF: Festival Internacional de Nuevas Narrativas de No Ficción
    Rosario, Santa Fe
    Argentina
    May 6, 2021
    Official Selection, Finnalist
  • Festival de Cine de Puerto Montt
    Puerto Montt
    Chile
    June 8, 2022
    Invitado Especial
  • Exhibición Sala -1 cine
    Puerto Varas
    Chile
    March 6, 2022
  • Festival de Cine de Ñuble
    Chillán
    Chile
    March 13, 2022
    Invitado
  • FICMA
    Ciudad de México
    Mexico
    December 12, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Festival BOGO Shorts
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    December 14, 2021
    Invitado
  • Exhibición Conferencia Procesos Creativos
    Valdivia
    Chile
    October 21, 2021
    Invitado
  • Exhibición Sala K
    Santiago
    Chile
    October 14, 2021
    National Premiere
Director Biography - Maria Court, Trinidad Piriz

ESPAÑOL
Border es nueva plataforma de proyectos narrativos en español e inglés. Somos una alternativa móvil e independiente para un mundo que está cambiando. Nos interesa crear historias sonoras que estén en el borde de la realidad y la ficción. Te invitamos a darlas vuelta y oír de nuevo.

ENGLISH
Border is a new narrative projects platform in Spanish and English.
We are a mobile and independent alternative for a world that is changing. We are interested in creating sound stories that are on the edge of reality and fiction. Border podcast invites you to turn reality upside down and hear with new ears.

DIRECTORS BIOGRAPHY
Maria Court:
Documentalista, productora y académica chilena con experiencia en la intersección del documental y nuevos medios. Co productora y Co Directora del premiado documental interactivo y transmedia Proyecto Quipu y del corto documental, Quipu, Llamadas por Justicia (2017).

Chilean documentary filmmaker, producer and academic with experience in the intersection of documentary and new media. Co-producer and Co-Director of the award-winning interactive and transmedia documentary Proyecto Quipu and the short film Quipu, Llamadas por Justicia (2017).

Trinidad Piriz:
Artista integral que desde 2007 crea obras, en las que
escribe, dirige y actúa con otros artistas. Piriz ha creado performances sonoras usando material autobiográfico en obras como Home, Helen Brown, Teatro Nacional Fin y Coro. Trabaja en los bordes del teatro y la música mezclando los sonidos del cotidiano, pensamientos íntimos y ficciones exacerbadas.

Chilean artist that since 2007 creates shows which she writes, directs and performs with other artists. Piriz has created sonic performances using autobiographical material: HOME, HELEN BROWN, TEATRO NACIONAL, FIN, CORO. She works on the borders of theater and music mixing everyday sounds, the most intimate thoughts and exacerbated fiction.

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Director Statement

On Friday, October 18, 2019, Chile exploded. Like a pressure cooker, like a bomb, it exploded. A social revolution began that day. Thousands of people took to the streets with pots, placards, stones and hoods to protest against social inequality. Others put on yellow vests to protect their properties. The government used police, with their tear bombs, pellets, and water cannons to suppress the protests. Days earlier, high school students jumped the Metro turnstiles and made it possible for citizens to access the metro without paying. This was the flame that ignited a social revolution.
As a result of the social unrest, on 25 October 2020 Chileans voted by a large majority in a referendum to abolish its Constitution and to elect a new Constitutional Assembly, whose 155 members will be elected in mid May 2021. These people will have nine months to design a new constitution (with a possible 3 month extension) which will be presented to another referendum in 2022, where citizens will choose either the old or new versions.
During 2020, in the middle of the Covid 19 global pandemic we created Border Podcast, an independent podcast and multimedia platform, where we launched its first series The Burst of Things. It is a six-part podcast available in both Spanish and English which tells the history of Chile’s social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them.
We started to look at the city and see the relics that the movement started to leave behind. It all started with a traffic light dumped on the street that was kind of looking to us with sad eyes but it was still working, and we were like what it is trying to tell us?. And from there we started to think how we could reflect on this but not from a human perspective, but from the world’s perspective that's watching us. The world of the objects that look at us, which was so symbolic.
Sound during this time was very crucial, the city sounded different . It sounded hopeful, uncertain, fearful. Sounds of curfew, the military, helicopters, but at the same time, the sound of empowered citizens, sounds of teflon pots that we call “cacerolazos”. Yelling after every presidential speech from every apartment window saying the people united will never be defeated. The sound had so much relevance and we thought it was a format to explore during the time that this story was unfolding and we were witnessing and asking ourselves what it meant to understand a story from the perspective of sound.
For our team, it was a real challenge to create this series in pandemic. It has been really about reflecting about this unrest. The unrest I experienced and the experience of our society as a whole. The one we all have inside and the collective one. That's what the pandemic did to us, the social unrest was explosive outside, but the pandemic is an internal explosion.
The social convulsion followed by the global pandemic has forced us to change many of our habits and priorities, overcoming our reluctance to change and relinquish what was known or normal. Each of us has had to look inward, to understand what is not working anymore and how we might stand again. So we came up with the question, Where are we standing right now? We see that we are lost and that maybe it's time to face it.
In this transdisciplinary exercise we use our constitution as a metaphor to reflect on the current situation of Chilean society. What does it mean to be lost? Do we know how to be in the state of present? Can we recapture the awareness that being lost requires?
We can see and hear a lost constitution, wondering about its future. And we are asking ourselves and the visitor, how do people continue if their Magna Carta, their roadmap is lost? How do people feel about being lost?
We will witness the journey of this lost Constitution as a protagonist dreaming with different voices and scenes, forcing us to question ourselves, from the most everyday things to the most existential and spiritual ones: domestic habits, dreams and reality... How do we continue? What will you leave behind and what will you stay with? How can you open a new path?
We want to reflect upon the basic issues that should be included in our new roadmap: water, health, education, nature, the role of women, dignity. We want to explore issues of uncertainty, loss, memory and desire. Where are we standing? will interrogate the notion of not-knowing being a driver towards science, art and self-transcendence. It will invite the user to be part of this reflection.