Diana Gonçalves
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<en> It's in nature that I enjoy the company of myself and my memories. Spaces carry more than the obvious material, they have something transcendental about them that sends us into a state of emotional trance that is mirrored in the landscape. Elsa, the voice of the film, is just a translation of this, of someone who finds herself lost when she's not in her own space. This film isn't about her, but about everything she says and what it's like to face loss. It's obviously a portrait of these villages, but it's much more subjective than objective. From the dark, cloudy space, weighed down by heavy rain, we suffocate in the solitary blackness as trapped as the water boiling and screaming in the kettle. It's finally light, but the tree that stands out is still far away and alone. We enter the story, the goat that dies if it doesn't give life, just as the villages are eaten by the grandiose wind turbines that almost cut our necks because they are lifeless. Yet the goats continue to eat and the bees to produce honey. The house, already bathed in sunlight, is the only one not for sale... everything else is left to the locals, to the ordinary. And with this we enter the interior of a house, which is basically the interior of a person. We all lose someone sooner or later, whether it's Mrs. Elsa, me or anyone else. When you lose someone, you lose “a dream of love”. You lose the opportunity to share a home (in the sense of living together) with them. And so we escape. But we also come back. Then the shock wears off, but the memory remains. Just as after dark the sun also shines and the landscape transcends, transforming the search into a memory. |