Revelaciones

Revelations

Direction: Juan Soto Taborda
Screenplay: Beatriz Elena Taborda, Juan Soto Taborda
Cinematography: Juan Soto Taborda
Edition: Juan Soto Taborda, Lara García Reyne
Sound: Isabel Torres

Runtime: 29:00
Format: 16mm
Dialogues: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Country: Colombia, United Kingdom
Year: 2020

I called my mother with a very specific question, and the conversation ended up having the structure of a potencial film. When blending her words with some old 16mm footage and some photography rolls a cuban friend had asked me to develop, the images started to burn, and their ignition posed questions about the nature of memories, how do we archive and preserve them, and which ones vanish without leaving a trace. According to Didi Huberman, to look at an image requires being able to discern the place where it burns.