An essay documentary that emerges from my contagion, isolation and release with the the COVID-19
at Quebec, Canadá. The Point of view from my isolation windows filmed in Super8, thoughts, sets and gadgets
serve as counterpoint to the distance, uncertainty and yearning.
Errekaleor, a squat neighborhood on the outskirts of Vitoria Gasteiz, a city in the Basque Country, represents itself in this science fiction story while imagining the present of a better world.
Memory is fragile, and mine perhaps even more so. I build notes or clues that allow me not to forget, but at the same time help me cross the threshold of death. Iune, my daughter, is 7 years old and survives rhabdomyosarcoma, to heal the experience I built a four-time ritual, in four directions. A way back home, Mexico. A path being abstract and confusing, yet loaded with symbols and meaning.
Six pieces of art made by indigenous people from the zapatista movement become an intercontinental bridge, where women, men and children embrace those who sail to the rescue of life.