Hablando con Dios

Calm chants immerse into the Baroque church with an expression of reverence and retained tension. While sitting on benches and bathed in an ethereal shine, the worshippers keep their eyes lowered, presumably in prayer. All of a sudden, the video reveals the faithfuls’ concerns about the cellular, an essence tool in our lives. The chant helps us get into an ecclesiastical atmosphere, although it is actually a technological alteration of bats’ calls, serving as a human tone. The bat, as a nocturnal animal, is associated with the devil in Western culture. The video shows an omniscient perspective where the screen package gets transformed into a constellation of stars.

“Hablando con Dios” tackles technology as a contemporary phenomenon, besides desecration and decentralisation of the canon. Even though a Catholic church may suggest an intimate conversation with a Higher Power, the fact that people are constantly absorbed in their cellulars makes us reflect on the role of technology nowadays. Will it be possible to make an upgrading of Faith then?

Seldom have we had the chance to reach the absolute knowledge and exercise the omnipresence power as much as today. Never before have man been so close to God, and yet, what’s essential seems to move further away. The beauty of the final frame (distant, similar to a starry sky), leaves us a possible exit: optimistic, where both elements, the technological and the espiritual one, attune themselves.