Humano

S Y N O P S I S
Elsa and Antonio, two indigenous Mapuche elders, live with their granddaughter in a humble house in southern Chile.The precarity of the terminally ill Antonio, leads his wife Elsa to seek the help of a Mapuche shaman, a Machi. Through an ancient ritual, the Machi tries to heal him from the unknown disease that will eventually cause his death. Antonio’s departure plunges Elsa into a state of despair and profound silence.

D E S C R I P T I O N
HUMANO is a three color channel video that intimately portrays the humble existence of a indigenous Mapuche family in southern Chile. In this video piece humans live in and are part of land, which in turn is part of humans. It’s a family portrait as well as a free-form format. And a story where beauty and its frailty, melancholia, and a life for the sake of death are brought into light as a whole. If the ultimate meaning of this video portrait, almost silent, remains indecipherable, it is probably because the meaning of the historical suffering of the indigenous people in its double dimension – past and upcoming – is indecipherable itself.
HUMANO proposes a real time immersion experience through lengthy stills into living pictures and poetic force.