Boca de aire

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Note of intent

This movie is based on a research carried out about diverse historical milestones of the discipline that studies caverns:Speleology.But above all it is an excuse for thinking over that thing we call inner world. When talking to speleologists, many of them remarked to me the experience of “ being in a place before anyone else ever” —a paradox that stirs the experience of Enlightenment in a blind space.The frantic search of a place when one can feel sheltered in depths unsuspected by Google Earth

Synopsis

Airflows guide the mountain’s expeditionary team, to the rhythm of the breath in its insides: the caves. A group of speleologists makes acoustic records to measure up the size of invisible hollow spaces, huge sound boxes. The Field Recording changes into a time-space odyssey that tunes historical episodes which are isolated but secretly bonded: the Renaissance representation of the caverns and its influence on the public parks of modernity, the hydrological studies of Martel the pioneer, the geographical institutionalization in Cuba where caves were thought as refuges for civilians during the Cold War, or the tourism industry taming centuries of geological erosion. The language of the expeditionary members mutates smoothly from one history to the other; the underground inspires the dissolution of the homeland that rules up in the surface.

Visual concept

In underground expeditions, the perceptual boundaries determine the sense of sight. Blinking is useless; light is not longer given. The ears listen in detail what is beating inside the bodies rather than the environment. The episodes’ structure of the film will be immersed in this mood confined by darkness and by the prevalence of the sense of hearing; a remembrance of the childhood’s bedtime story, when it is not possible to tell whether the tale comes from the outside world or from the subject’s subjective one.