The filmmaker devises a way to update his deceased parents on what has happened in the family and in their country over the past 50 years.
The clouds are people: Allende, Raúl Ruiz, Pedro Meneses, an aunt, a father. And just as weather phenomena cannot be linked by linear collision (in the manner of Eisenstein), the images and sounds, in Agüero's case, "call" to each other, through repetitions, rhymes, returns to his personal archive, to his past films, which are also composed in this anti-fetishistic way (not all of them), generating a kind of magnetic field, in the style of Artavazd Peleshyan's cinema, where the accumulated affection, added to the multiple visions of the same thing (for example, the light in his patio), provoke an organic unity: when the extremes are excited, the whole thing shines.
Danilo Petrovich, FIDOCS 29 programmer
Ignacio Agüero (1952, Santiago, Chile) studied architecture and film. His documentary work includes One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988), Agustín's Diary (2008), and Notes for a Film (2022). Recognized as a leading figure in Latin American documentary filmmaking, he has received numerous international awards and has held multiple retrospectives of his work.