Cristaux

The tetralogy pieces are dominated by the concept and presence of death foreclosure fetal vertigo As such CRISTAUX is a real descent into an inner labyrinth which we do not know if it is organic or cultural At the same time the film contains a dialectical break that initiates other semantic directions in Hernandezs work Under the influence of Michel NEDJAR the filmmaker abandons his traditional method of editing based on rushes The operation is now completed inside the camera filming This more flexible way of proceeding the camera must become a second eye is already reflected in the clear openings of Lacrima Christi the Christian myth seems to be on the way to exorcising The pantheistic intoxication close to that evoked by Nietzsche seizes places objects and participants