Strong Waters

A sensory immersive composition takes us on a journey to a place that seems to have stopped in time but remains timeless A female voice reads a mythological text on the origin of the world and sets the tone for a documentarymeditation on the presence of primeval elements like water and flora and their cohabitation with the natives whose portraits intersperse the film The stealthy camera follows a boat drifting across the calm waters of a river as if the latter were the rings of a tree disclosing its history in a movement that lulls us and drives us to the physical and metaphysical core Finally accompanied by an ancestral chant the etching gives way to a sequence of images which in turn emerge like a river reducing the field of action to the essential and moves into a poetic terrain summoning the imagination of each one