An exploration of the 40-year career of performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña…
Enlightened
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Two people are closely related by unconventional forms of life and vision: Pedro Miranda, a young, blind visual artist; and Iris Palau, a clairvoyant.
Enlightened is a creative documentary with a touch of black humor and with an oneiric atmosphere that deals with mystery, blindness, arts, and experimentation. It bets on the exploration of the thin line dividing the visible from the invisible.
Citation
Main credits
Curioca, Jorge (film director)
Curioca, Jorge (screenwriter)
Núñez Puerto, Marta (film producer)
Miranda, Pedro (on-screen participant)
Palau, Iris (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Cinematography, Frodo García-Conde; editing, Marta Núñez Puerto; music, Catarina Gabriel.
Distributor subjects
Disabilities; Religion + Spirituality; Mental Health; SociologyKeywords
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A part of my father's family
believes there’s a curse.
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Elsa, as a child,
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ran into an old woman who
told her that she would die
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when she turned 16.
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The vein on her forehead was a
vein that spoke of a family curse.
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When my aunt turned 16,
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she woke up one morning and
died in my grandfather’s arms.
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When I was born, everyone noticed
the mole on my forehead,
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and related it to Aunt
Elsa's vein, to the point
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that many of my aunts
and uncles believe
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that I was blind because
of this curse.
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Interestingly, when
I discovered that
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I was totally blind,
I was 16 years old.
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Enlightened
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The way I perceive things is
as if thoughts came to me,
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sometimes it’s concrete
words, very clear images...
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sometimes they come to me in
black and white, others in color
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of any moment or place related
to the person I’m seeing.
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But it still doesn’t smell
like dead, right?
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It smells kind of sweet here.
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The plastic you say is
here in the corner.
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Carmelita.
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Hi.
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Angry?
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No, happy.
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Why?
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What will you give me
for the Day of the Dead?
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I'm still waiting for
it to arrive.
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You see?
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Do you have dried
avocado leaf?
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Yes.
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-The bag has skulls.
-Oh, yes?
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Of which kind?
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-What color is the bag?
-Yellow.
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-And the skulls?
-Purple. Your style.
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I like those bags.
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Yes, because they have
purple, as you like,
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and the little faces
are laughing.
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Tlayuda!
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She charged us 30
and it was 31.
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And she gave us the bag.
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Yes, she is being
very generous.
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-Yes.
-I guess she is in love.
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Look, there are more
skulls out here, Pedro.
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Speaking of loneliness,
I am looking for a partner,
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slave and assistant.
I hope there is
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someone willing to meet
those three requirements.
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Why is it like this?
No idea.
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Tell him:
“I have no idea.”
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-Who knows?
-Tell him: “I have no idea.”
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He already excused me.
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I grab the next piece
of muslin above.
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Then I grab the next
piece of muslin below...
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...and once I have
four, I pull the...
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Theoretically, Fabiola
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here you’d have to
weave it with a hook.
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-Where?
-In the neck, in the sleeves
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and below.
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Remember this is one,
the one in front of you and…
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But stand, we want to see
you standing up.
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How do you see it,
Mariana?
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I like it. It looks nice
because
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she's wearing a white
shirt under the sweater.
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That is. But pull it
some more.
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Go ahead, like that.
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There you go…
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So, I put it through
here, right?
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-You put one in.
-One in.
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-You put two in.
-Two. And I put...
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-And you put three in.
-…three.
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You let go and pull.
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And here, with these fingers,
you feel how you are pulling.
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Can you feel it?
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-Isn’t it tight here, Belén?
-No.
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I’m totally blind, I’m
deaf on the right side,
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I have an injury on my spine,
I have a kind of asthma...
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For the last 20 years
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I’ve kept absolutely everything
the doctor prescribes,
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because the containers
seem elegant to me,
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as if they were a
kind of jewel.
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If at the hospital where I
receive my medical service
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they saw everything I have here,
the first thing they would do
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is send me to the psychiatrist
to see what’s wrong.
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When I started seeing I went
to see a person called Edith,
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who’s also well known here in
Oaxaca, she’s like a shaman.
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She said to me, “Oh, girl,
you came to heal people.”
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I said, “Tell me how that works,
because I'm starting to see things.”
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She said, “No, no, no,
I'm not here to teach anyone”,
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then I spotted her sister
down below and she said:
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“Stay here, I’ll teach you, and
you can learn to read auras.”
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And I remember she
said that day:
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“I'm going to start teaching you
how to read the candlelight,
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because you can also see
things in the candlelight.”
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That’s how I started with her, she
taught me to read the photos
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because everything there is energy.
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Actually, I didn’t
understand anything
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at the time, I only saw things.
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Then one day Edith, who had
too many clients, said to me,
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“Okay, go up and see
what you can do, girl.”
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I was 21 years old at the time.
I saw a woman and said,
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“Well, I see that she
doesn’t have a womb”,
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and the woman said to her,
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“Where did you get
this girl from?”
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“Don’t worry,” she said,
“she’s Dr. Palau’s daughter."
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“Trust her”, she said.
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“Indeed, I don’t have a
womb”, the woman said.
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So time went by,
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I learned to do the
traditional cleansings,
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she cleansed with herbs and
made circles of fire with them,
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as shamans do.
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She was an expert doing that, while
I started to see the anatomy,
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the physiology, I saw
organs back then,
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it was as if I had
an x-ray machine.
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Until there came a
time when I realized
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that I was not meant
to heal with herbs,
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that my thing was not that,
but I respected it.
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I felt that my thing involved my hands.
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“It's the world that's blind:
there are too many images,
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a kind of pollution.
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Nobody can see anything.
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It is necessary to
cut through them
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to discover true images.”
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Evgen Bavčar (Slovenian
blind photographer)
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Fortunately,
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I was never considered a
disabled person here, right?
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Well, in fact, I think
nobody believes I'm blind,
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that's one of my curses, because
nobody believes my blindness.
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Why, Pedro?
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I think because I’m excessively perfectionist.
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That technique of yours,
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not braille but something
similar, piercing the photos...
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-Resembling an engraving.
-...to achieve a texture.
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The first photos you reviewed,
I don’t know if you remember
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they were in color
but out of focus.
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-Of course.
-Yes.
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-Of course.
-It was something that at first
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nobody wanted to
print those photos.
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Yes, that’s right.
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Because everyone said they
were bad pictures, right?
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Because they were out of focus.
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You said to me:
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“No, I want them to
be out of focus
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because when I started
losing my sight,
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that’s how I saw
things, Patricia.”
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What do you have there,
by the way, Pedro?
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A camera that I bought.
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This one I’ve used
without technique,
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and it has four pinholes,
it’s very nice.
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Very nice.
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But, I’m unsure about
the exposure time.
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How do you feel about
the light now, Pedro?
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Right now it's very cold.
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I could almost say
that shaded or cloudy.
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It’s shady and cloudy.
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So, right now, for example,
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we need a lot of time for
exposure, enough time,
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and that time will
help you achieve
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those ghost-like images
that you would like to do.
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And what’s your idea
for the session?
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First of all, he must be
naked, in this fucking cold...
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Nude.
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Yes. And it seems like
it's going to rain,
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and we're going to use
a pinhole camera.
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Perfect.
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Which, with the light,
I’m not sure will work.
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And poses resembling angels.
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Psychopomps are supposedly
mythological animals.
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In all mythologies there
are psychopomps, and...
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-Psychopomps?
-Psychopomps.
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Psycho from psyche, psychology,
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and they are animals
that are in charge
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of guarding the gates
of the underworld
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or preventing the souls of the
dead to wander among the living.
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Can you imagine a cripple
going up this?
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Silly you.
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We’ll have one of them guide you, to
see how you work it out together.
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There it is. Huge.
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Oh, but this is tin.
Oh, no, it's clay.
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Can’t we put him in a vase?
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-Do you think so?
-What is in the...?
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Let's see... No,
it has spiders.
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Well, we can take them out.
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Try the other one, Luis. But
first look out for spiders.
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Yes.
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I feel like El Chavo del Ocho.
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Do you fit in there?
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Yes. Do you want him
to hide completely?
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Hide completely.
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Don’t grab it by the rim to pull it,
because the rim is very fragile.
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-So where then?
-By the middle.
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Okay.
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Let’s hope they don’t make
us pay as if it were new.
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-Let them charge Pedro.
-Why me?
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-Ready?
-Ready.
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-Does it have spiders?
-A shitload.
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-Did something bite you?
-Many mosquitoes have bitten me.
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-Really?
-All over my body.
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Luis, you're going to
step inside the vase,
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but in such way that your
head will appear first.
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And it's the last one.
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You step out of the vase,
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you stand in front
of it and you shake,
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as if you were shaking
off the dirt.
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Okay.
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The sun is kind of coming out.
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It's between hiding, cloudy,
and coming out and so, but...
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Look, María, I don’t
fucking care now.
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Let me come down first
and then tell me
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what the fucking sun is doing.
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But when the sun
reaches the stairs,
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it will create a triangular
shadow that crosses...
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from this side to the other.
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Okay.
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It looks nice, and you
see a few shades of...
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it's for you to
concentrate.
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Yes.
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We see a few shadows
of the trees, it looks good,
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because this way it’s
covering the sun
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and the light is very flat,
I mean, very diffuse,
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I don’t know. It doesn’t create
any shadows or anything.
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So, it will look good with light.
Careful.
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-Oh, man. Okay.
-Okay, last one, there it is.
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This fucking ladder should be
placed outside a Catholic temple.
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-Are you still cold?
-I don’t know what’s wrong with me…
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-Fear.
-No, not fear.
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You’re still in the middle,
right, Luis?
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Yes.
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Tell me, remember I'm blind.
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We're just going to change the roll.
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Okay.
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Here it is.
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Ready.
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Okay, let’s count to three.
One, two, three.
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Put them down like this.
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Put your palms like this.
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Go down.
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-Yes.
-Go further down.
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-Your pinhole is closed, right?
-Yes.
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-It would still be 35, right?
-Yes.
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-Ready, María?
-Ready, waiting for your call.
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-One, two, three.
-At the height of your face.
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-Lower the other foot.
-Yes.
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Move your hands like this.
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-Lower the other foot.
-Yes.
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Pedro, take half a step forward.
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Yes.
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Try not to put your
fingers in there, Pedro.
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No, why not?
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-It’s a chemical substance.
-Oh, okay.
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You're a minute away from
regret, do you want the gloves?
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No.
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-It's okay.
-I hate the gloves, Marcela.
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Okay, then I'm going
to turn on the clock,
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Pedro,
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and I’ll tell you “uncover your tank."
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Ready!
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That’s enough, Pedrito.
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-Enough?
-Yeah, and tap it.
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I remember clearly how
it was a big scandal
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that I had posed naked at
the library for the blind.
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-Oh, yeah?
-Yes, yes.
00:17:59.291 --> 00:18:02.083
Were they dying of
envy or what happened?
00:18:02.083 --> 00:18:07.791
Morbidity, contempt.
A “how could you undress?"
00:18:09.791 --> 00:18:11.375
But it was very funny
00:18:11.375 --> 00:18:14.583
because everyone criticized
me inside the Borges Library
00:18:14.583 --> 00:18:17.083
but at the same time, the custodians
of the Álvarez Bravo Center
00:18:17.083 --> 00:18:20.583
told me that everyone who
could still see a bit
00:18:20.583 --> 00:18:24.916
went with magnifying glasses
to be able to see the photo.
00:18:24.916 --> 00:18:27.833
I understood it had
to do with morbidity,
00:18:27.833 --> 00:18:32.791
but also with being different,
because I was blind,
00:18:32.791 --> 00:18:36.000
I had long hair, I wore
earrings, do you remember?
00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.750
Yes, of course.
00:18:37.750 --> 00:18:41.791
And I always wore muslin huipiles,
embroidery from Chiapas,
00:18:41.791 --> 00:18:43.541
from Guerrero.
00:18:46.041 --> 00:18:49.166
-I can see something, Pedro.
-Yes?
00:18:49.166 --> 00:18:52.541
Well, there’s something, but
it looks very ethereal.
00:18:52.541 --> 00:18:57.708
I can see your model, not
clearly, it looks like a ghost.
00:18:59.916 --> 00:19:03.958
-Okay.
-There it is.
00:19:23.458 --> 00:19:28.875
Some very special things appear
there, Pedro. It’s very strange.
00:19:28.875 --> 00:19:30.375
Strange is my thing.
00:19:30.375 --> 00:19:31.458
Yes.
00:19:45.041 --> 00:19:47.125
It began as an
experiment, right?
00:19:47.125 --> 00:19:50.708
I had no money, I had the
warp of the loom,
00:19:50.708 --> 00:19:54.375
I had a picture in my
house, I took it out
00:19:54.375 --> 00:19:56.166
I cut it and I
started to weave it.
00:19:57.333 --> 00:19:58.583
I was told at the museum
00:19:58.583 --> 00:20:03.250
that my photos were not well done
because they were pixelated;
00:20:03.250 --> 00:20:09.166
that is, the photo textile is
created with pieces of image.
00:20:09.166 --> 00:20:14.708
At the time I was
tearing up the photos
00:20:14.708 --> 00:20:18.250
because I’ve always felt torn,
00:20:18.250 --> 00:20:19.458
in some way.
00:20:19.458 --> 00:20:22.458
I always say
that I’m just masks,
00:20:22.458 --> 00:20:26.458
but I also say
that I’m fragments
00:20:26.458 --> 00:20:29.041
of something that
is sometimes built,
00:20:29.041 --> 00:20:32.625
or destroyed and reconstructed
in another way.
00:20:32.625 --> 00:20:34.958
I did the session
and developed them,
00:20:34.958 --> 00:20:38.083
I printed them and I didn’t
like them, because it was a...
00:20:38.083 --> 00:20:40.000
a model standing there
00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:44.791
it wasn’t ghostly.
The photos were put away
00:20:44.791 --> 00:20:47.416
from 2005 to 2008,
00:20:47.416 --> 00:20:52.083
and in those three or four
years I was learning to knit,
00:20:52.083 --> 00:20:53.750
experimenting with textiles.
00:20:57.291 --> 00:21:00.041
Shall I put more pressure
and do it several times?
00:21:00.041 --> 00:21:03.125
Yes. That’s it, see? That's all.
00:21:12.791 --> 00:21:15.583
And you can do it with…
00:21:15.583 --> 00:21:19.708
-Confidently.
-Yes, it won’t explode.
00:21:39.875 --> 00:21:45.833
Everyone says that the work is
too detailed for a blind man.
00:21:45.833 --> 00:21:50.125
It was made by a very
obsessive blind man.
00:21:50.125 --> 00:21:53.041
-Yes, you can tell.
-Can you spot the obsessiveness?
00:21:53.916 --> 00:21:56.916
All my work has a lot
to do with the past;
00:21:56.916 --> 00:22:01.541
in theory, because I
have never spoken to a ghost,
00:22:01.541 --> 00:22:04.291
that the ghost is, precisely,
00:22:04.291 --> 00:22:10.083
an energy that stays put in a place
because it clings to the past,
00:22:10.083 --> 00:22:15.000
that anchor keeps it from advancing
to whatever there is beyond.
00:22:25.916 --> 00:22:29.083
Why “The Crazy Bride”?
It's a legend, isn’t it?
00:22:29.083 --> 00:22:31.416
It's a legend, yes.
00:22:31.416 --> 00:22:34.500
The church collapsed
in an earthquake
00:22:34.500 --> 00:22:39.125
just as a wedding was taking place,
and when the vaults collapsed,
00:22:39.125 --> 00:22:44.083
they killed several people, including
the priest and the bride and groom.
00:22:44.083 --> 00:22:45.166
Ever since,
00:22:45.166 --> 00:22:50.083
some believe that at night the
bride wanders around the area,
00:22:50.083 --> 00:22:54.958
searching for the love of her life,
the person she could never marry.
00:22:58.125 --> 00:23:02.291
That day that I was weaving
“The Bride” day and night,
00:23:02.291 --> 00:23:06.666
I felt that someone was
with me... watching.
00:23:06.666 --> 00:23:10.625
Don’t doubt it, Pedro. If
you felt it, someone was there.
00:23:10.625 --> 00:23:11.833
There was something.
00:23:22.750 --> 00:23:30.791
My dreams after turning blind
became slightly foggy, dark.
00:23:30.791 --> 00:23:34.166
Many of the things that I
dream take place at sunset.
00:23:34.166 --> 00:23:38.708
I can visualize bodies
but never faces.
00:23:38.708 --> 00:23:43.833
Always, if in my dreams
I see someone's head,
00:23:43.833 --> 00:23:51.250
I can see the hair surrounding a
dark oval or something very deep.
00:24:01.375 --> 00:24:04.916
Hells live inside us,
they’re not below us.
00:24:07.458 --> 00:24:11.666
Suddenly I heard sounds,
things that were not there,
00:24:11.666 --> 00:24:13.375
and that made me feel afraid.
00:24:13.375 --> 00:24:17.208
As a child, I would crawl
under my blanket or my sheet,
00:24:17.208 --> 00:24:20.000
because I didn’t
want to see or hear.
00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.791
My son, he can see spirits with
a body, I only see silhouettes.
00:24:24.791 --> 00:24:30.458
He, as a child, could see
people but they were not alive.
00:24:31.250 --> 00:24:32.791
He would come and say:
00:24:32.791 --> 00:24:36.791
“Someone with a slit throat came,
please talk to him, ask him to go.”
00:26:41.041 --> 00:26:43.458
Pedro,
this is the house,
00:26:43.458 --> 00:26:48.250
this is the backyard
where I have the compost
00:26:48.250 --> 00:26:50.791
and where owners’ van sits,
00:26:50.791 --> 00:26:52.833
and where there’s
a storage room.
00:26:52.833 --> 00:26:55.083
It’s from two centuries ago.
00:26:55.083 --> 00:26:56.875
-Made of sun-dried brick?
-Yes, be careful,
00:26:56.875 --> 00:27:01.833
here is a step and then
another, then there’s a ramp,
00:27:01.833 --> 00:27:03.750
there you are at the end.
00:27:03.750 --> 00:27:06.958
Almost 20 years, right? Since
I came to your workshop.
00:27:06.958 --> 00:27:08.208
Yes, Pedro.
00:27:08.208 --> 00:27:13.041
Hey, Miriam, and how many
dogs keep you company now?
00:27:13.041 --> 00:27:14.625
Now I have five.
00:27:15.125 --> 00:27:17.875
-And do you still have cats?
-I still have cats, yes.
00:27:17.875 --> 00:27:19.083
I have 15.
00:27:19.416 --> 00:27:22.000
-Fifteen?
-Fifteen cats.
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.000
So you’re still fighting for
ecology, animal protection,
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:28.791
the rights of those
who are worthwhile.
00:27:28.791 --> 00:27:32.083
-Only those worthwhile.
-Only those worthwhile.
00:27:32.583 --> 00:27:35.541
Look, here’s another one, Pedro.
This one is smaller.
00:27:35.541 --> 00:27:37.500
Do you still make angels?
00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:39.416
Yes, I'll show you some.
00:27:40.208 --> 00:27:42.000
I would have liked to
continue doing sculptures,
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:48.166
but in my chicken house I don’t
have space for anything.
00:27:50.833 --> 00:27:54.666
The cornfield is
ready for harvest.
00:27:54.666 --> 00:27:58.666
Everything is dry,
the leaves are falling,
00:27:59.291 --> 00:28:01.458
but the light
is lovely, Pedro.
00:28:02.250 --> 00:28:06.291
The light is golden.
Do you remember the color gold?
00:28:06.291 --> 00:28:07.500
Yes.
00:28:09.791 --> 00:28:12.875
Hey, Pedro, are you
going to see Iris?
00:28:12.875 --> 00:28:16.250
Iris Palau, do you
know what she does?
00:28:16.250 --> 00:28:22.666
I’m not sure what she does and I
don’t want to know to avoid bias.
00:28:23.833 --> 00:28:27.666
She's a psychic. I turned
to her and she told me:
00:28:27.666 --> 00:28:31.708
“Marcela, I've seen things
since I was a child.”
00:28:31.708 --> 00:28:35.583
She told me that she could
even see the inside of a body.
00:28:37.125 --> 00:28:39.375
Have you ever gone
00:28:39.375 --> 00:28:41.541
through a cleansing ritual…?
00:28:41.791 --> 00:28:45.125
I cleanse regularly.
00:28:45.125 --> 00:28:50.583
Not so much, because I have
cats and cats can
00:28:50.583 --> 00:28:53.333
change negative energies
00:28:53.333 --> 00:28:55.750
into positive ones
or repel bad things.
00:28:55.750 --> 00:28:58.708
-So you believe in this?
-About cats? Yes.
00:28:58.708 --> 00:29:01.583
The cats take care of you,
and protect you.
00:29:01.583 --> 00:29:03.666
Absolutely.
00:29:05.666 --> 00:29:07.541
When I was a child,
00:29:07.541 --> 00:29:11.375
I had this hope of
becoming a priest...
00:29:11.375 --> 00:29:13.416
So you wanted to be a monk.
00:29:13.416 --> 00:29:16.833
Yes, it still
draws my attention,
00:29:16.833 --> 00:29:19.208
mainly because it means
being locked up,
00:29:19.208 --> 00:29:21.166
reading books...
00:29:21.666 --> 00:29:27.791
The person who baptized me
revealed a prophecy about me,
00:29:27.791 --> 00:29:32.041
and said that I had to be
very careful when I spoke
00:29:32.041 --> 00:29:36.875
because I had the ability
to help many people
00:29:36.875 --> 00:29:40.166
or to destroy whoever I wanted.
00:29:48.333 --> 00:29:52.250
So, everything is
colonial here, right?
00:29:52.250 --> 00:29:53.916
Yes, it’s an alley.
00:29:53.916 --> 00:29:56.333
It still has the colonial touch.
00:29:56.333 --> 00:29:58.416
Yes.
00:29:58.416 --> 00:30:01.000
-There is an angel.
-Is there?
00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:04.208
Yes, the funny
thing is that it has no hands,
00:30:04.208 --> 00:30:07.708
I don’t know if it's
on purpose or...
00:30:07.708 --> 00:30:09.500
Or if they were stolen.
00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:11.875
Or they fell or something like that.
00:30:11.875 --> 00:30:17.375
It reminds me of a
mythological female character,
00:30:17.375 --> 00:30:20.791
whom if you looked at you
were turned into stone.
00:30:20.791 --> 00:30:22.416
-Medusa.
-Oh, yeah.
00:30:22.416 --> 00:30:26.708
Yes. She was a young
woman, right?
00:30:28.458 --> 00:30:33.500
Medusa was supposed to be a virgin,
but because she was raped,
00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:39.333
I believe by the god of the sea,
goddess Athena condemned her
00:30:39.333 --> 00:30:42.791
to live isolated and
away from everyone,
00:30:42.791 --> 00:30:46.208
transforming her
into a monster.
00:30:47.083 --> 00:30:50.333
As of last year, I'm
writing a book about
00:30:50.333 --> 00:30:53.625
my family that deals
a lot about angels.
00:30:53.625 --> 00:30:58.958
One of the main characters
is precisely an angel,
00:30:59.375 --> 00:31:04.291
a seraph, which is
part of God himself.
00:31:04.291 --> 00:31:09.458
-So you believe God exists?
-I could think of a God
00:31:09.458 --> 00:31:13.458
who grew bored of us and now wanders
around another part of space.
00:31:13.458 --> 00:31:19.166
He pilots his UFO ship, leaving
DNA chains all over the place.
00:31:19.166 --> 00:31:21.541
Like a mad scientific God.
00:31:21.541 --> 00:31:27.083
Since I was brought up a
Catholic when I was a child,
00:31:27.083 --> 00:31:31.041
and my parents were Christians,
they are Christians,
00:31:31.041 --> 00:31:35.125
so I was a Catholic in the morning
and a Christian in the afternoon.
00:31:37.458 --> 00:31:40.041
Do you think there is a
big difference between
00:31:40.041 --> 00:31:42.458
being a Christian and
being a Catholic?
00:31:43.666 --> 00:31:47.916
Well, Christians, or almost
all Protestant religions,
00:31:47.916 --> 00:31:52.041
live more attached to
punishment, right?
00:31:52.041 --> 00:31:54.375
What I talked about
with Maestro Adrián,
00:31:54.375 --> 00:32:01.083
the avenger God, the
God of fire and blood.
00:32:01.375 --> 00:32:07.875
I don’t think God has forgotten
us or is bored with us.
00:32:08.958 --> 00:32:09.916
Don’t you?
00:32:09.916 --> 00:32:12.625
No, I think it's the other way around.
00:32:12.875 --> 00:32:17.416
-We’re bored of God?
-We have forgotten God.
00:32:17.416 --> 00:32:19.250
Oh, okay. I see.
00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:23.541
No, I don’t think so, people
think of God all the time,
00:32:23.541 --> 00:32:26.916
only when it’s for their
benefit.
00:32:26.916 --> 00:32:31.416
That’s it, I think we’ve
forgotten the essence of God.
00:32:31.416 --> 00:32:33.583
He doesn’t exist.
I don’t know,
00:32:33.583 --> 00:32:36.541
someone phoned him or
he went to the bathroom
00:32:36.541 --> 00:32:39.291
and he hasn’t come back.
00:32:39.291 --> 00:32:43.166
But maybe you think that
way because...
00:32:43.166 --> 00:32:49.708
Your mom is supposed to have certain...
clairvoyance gift, right?
00:32:51.458 --> 00:32:55.541
My dad always talked to us
about God as a creator
00:32:55.541 --> 00:33:00.458
not as a punishing being, and
about the spirits that existed.
00:33:09.708 --> 00:33:14.166
Astrid Hadad has a prayer
that more or less says:
00:33:14.166 --> 00:33:15.208
“Uncle Sam,
00:33:15.208 --> 00:33:19.583
who art in the northern country,
hallowed be thy new order,
00:33:19.583 --> 00:33:24.166
the dollars come, they will
be done on the United States
00:33:24.166 --> 00:33:26.083
as it is the whole world.
00:33:26.750 --> 00:33:31.208
Give us this day our daily
McDonald's, and forgive the Cubans,
00:33:31.208 --> 00:33:35.208
as we forgive those of
the DEA and the Marines.
00:33:37.875 --> 00:33:42.208
Lead us not into nationalism,
00:33:42.208 --> 00:33:46.583
but deliver us from the Chinese
and Japanese businessmen.
00:33:46.583 --> 00:33:49.666
In God we trust,
Shalom and Amen.”
00:33:49.666 --> 00:33:55.250
That is a real prayer
of our 21st century
00:33:55.250 --> 00:33:58.458
because it really summarizes
what is happening.
00:34:00.625 --> 00:34:04.083
-Listen.
-Yes, we can still hear the band,
00:34:04.083 --> 00:34:05.583
all day long, I think...
00:34:05.583 --> 00:34:07.875
“Hurray for the Pineapple
Flower, hurray for Tuxtepec!”
00:34:07.875 --> 00:34:09.166
It's the “Pineapple Flower.”
00:34:09.166 --> 00:34:11.083
Uh-huh, the dance,
00:34:11.083 --> 00:34:16.000
they do it before the Day of
the Dead celebrations, right?
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.333
That's a few days away.
00:34:20.291 --> 00:34:21.541
Let’s make sure we go then.
00:34:47.083 --> 00:34:51.958
Fifth mystery: Mary is crowned
as the Queen of all creation.
00:34:51.958 --> 00:34:53.625
Please stand up.
00:34:54.166 --> 00:34:59.916
Holy Mary Mother of God,
pray for us sinners
00:34:59.916 --> 00:35:03.666
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
00:35:03.666 --> 00:35:09.208
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
00:35:09.208 --> 00:35:11.666
Blessed art thou amongst women.
00:35:37.916 --> 00:35:39.791
“Even those who can’t see,
00:35:39.791 --> 00:35:45.041
have within themselves what
we might call a visual need.
00:35:45.041 --> 00:35:48.625
The blind sigh for light
like a child on a train
00:35:48.625 --> 00:35:51.833
while going through a tunnel.” Evgen Bavčar
00:35:55.333 --> 00:35:59.166
During the total solar eclipse
which was in the 90s,
00:35:59.166 --> 00:36:02.083
my older sister
beat me up...
00:36:02.083 --> 00:36:04.166
she turned to me
again and again and said:
00:36:04.166 --> 00:36:06.875
“Pedro, don’t look at the sky.”
00:36:06.875 --> 00:36:10.375
And I couldn’t care less and sat
on the edge of the jardinière
00:36:10.375 --> 00:36:14.708
and looked up to contemplate
the whole fucking eclipse.
00:36:14.708 --> 00:36:17.125
My parents arrived and
they beat me up again.
00:36:17.125 --> 00:36:18.333
You know what they say.
00:36:18.333 --> 00:36:21.875
If you stare at the sun you can
burn your retinas and go blind.
00:36:24.875 --> 00:36:28.541
We’re all energy, we’re
all interconnected.
00:36:28.541 --> 00:36:30.541
In a way, when I enter someone,
00:36:30.541 --> 00:36:34.625
because it’s like a sensation,
like entering through the eyes,
00:36:34.625 --> 00:36:35.833
with open eyes,
00:36:35.833 --> 00:36:38.791
it’s the spirit that
communicates soul to soul.
00:36:38.791 --> 00:36:40.041
Connecting to me is like
00:36:40.041 --> 00:36:44.250
this consciousness that
is able to perceive
00:36:44.250 --> 00:36:48.500
beyond what is seen
and what is tangible.
00:37:23.583 --> 00:37:26.500
That's supposed to be
what I want you to sell.
00:37:28.041 --> 00:37:31.041
What I did in two months.
Here, have a look.
00:37:31.041 --> 00:37:32.875
But they don’t have a price.
00:37:32.875 --> 00:37:37.166
Well, I would say
at least 100 pesos.
00:37:37.666 --> 00:37:39.250
100 pesos for the entire box.
00:37:39.250 --> 00:37:42.750
-Don’t fuck with me.
-This is purple, like lilac.
00:37:42.750 --> 00:37:44.083
-This?
-Yes.
00:37:44.083 --> 00:37:45.916
-All of it?
-Yes.
00:37:45.916 --> 00:37:48.458
-This?
-That looks cool.
00:37:48.458 --> 00:37:50.541
If I put it on,
I won’t get it dirty.
00:37:50.541 --> 00:37:52.250
Come on, you're all sweaty.
00:37:52.250 --> 00:37:58.916
I'm all sweaty, right?
Start selling now, chop-chop.
00:37:59.541 --> 00:38:01.250
But, is it very long
with the strips?
00:38:01.250 --> 00:38:02.291
Yes.
00:38:02.291 --> 00:38:04.291
Do you think it will sell here?
00:38:05.041 --> 00:38:08.708
Maybe, someone who’s
kind of cuckoo.
00:38:08.708 --> 00:38:10.375
Yes?
00:38:11.916 --> 00:38:20.500
Not so much pressure, so the
tortilla doesn’t break.
00:38:30.458 --> 00:38:31.583
Ready, it's done.
00:38:31.583 --> 00:38:32.958
-All of it?
-Yes.
00:38:32.958 --> 00:38:34.750
-Absolutely all of it?
-Yes, it looks green.
00:38:34.750 --> 00:38:38.500
Jesus, that’s what I call speed.
Put it in front of the venti, okay?
00:38:44.666 --> 00:38:47.083
Shall I emulsify the other
one or shall I wait?
00:38:47.083 --> 00:38:49.083
Yes, emulsify the other one.
00:38:50.166 --> 00:38:54.166
My grandfather talked, months
before he died, that he used to
00:38:54.166 --> 00:38:59.333
see a woman in a suit from
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
00:38:59.333 --> 00:39:04.750
who told him that it was
time to leave this world.
00:39:09.458 --> 00:39:13.791
Perico, when will I
see your face again?
00:39:13.791 --> 00:39:15.666
For the coming of
Christ, I believe.
00:39:15.666 --> 00:39:16.916
For the coming of Christ?
00:39:16.916 --> 00:39:20.000
Well that’s soon, because
Jesus is already at the door.
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:22.208
At the neighbor’s...
00:39:22.833 --> 00:39:25.666
At my house, what do
you mean the neighbor’s?
00:39:25.666 --> 00:39:30.166
Not yours, but mine.
00:39:30.166 --> 00:39:33.583
I haven’t heard the doorbell ring.
00:39:33.583 --> 00:39:36.583
You won't hear it,
because these isn't one.
00:39:36.583 --> 00:39:37.666
About a year ago,
00:39:37.666 --> 00:39:42.291
I think Jehovah's Witnesses
were knocking on the door.
00:39:43.041 --> 00:39:44.416
When you asked: “Who is it?”
00:39:44.416 --> 00:39:49.583
They would reply: “Jesus
Christ knocks at your door”.
00:39:49.583 --> 00:39:51.041
-Jehovah's Witnesses?
-Oh, yes.
00:39:51.041 --> 00:39:54.333
They came by every day
and stopped doing
00:39:54.333 --> 00:39:55.750
so when I started yelling:
00:39:55.750 --> 00:39:59.958
“Tell him I'm not here..."
00:39:59.958 --> 00:40:02.166
-It was too much.
-Yes.
00:40:06.125 --> 00:40:08.291
-And now they don’t come by?
-Not anymore.
00:40:08.291 --> 00:40:10.166
They were scared away,
Satan came out.
00:40:10.166 --> 00:40:13.583
Thank God. Nobody
comes anymore.
00:40:14.333 --> 00:40:16.583
So, you're not coming
for Christmas, Perico?
00:40:16.583 --> 00:40:20.041
-I don’t celebrate Christmas.
-Is that why you don’t come?
00:40:20.041 --> 00:40:21.500
Why? Are you the Grinch?
00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:24.250
No, I don’t even celebrate
my birthday.
00:40:24.250 --> 00:40:26.541
-But what about the cat’s?
-Oh, of course.
00:40:26.541 --> 00:40:29.416
Now I understand why you
didn’t congratulate me on mine.
00:40:29.416 --> 00:40:32.166
I forgot.
00:40:32.916 --> 00:40:34.375
-Didn’t he call you, Ana?
-No.
00:40:34.375 --> 00:40:36.541
-What?
-He didn’t call me,
00:40:36.541 --> 00:40:39.666
he didn’t congratulate
me, nothing.
00:40:40.625 --> 00:40:43.500
The good thing is that
I don’t hold grudges.
00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:46.958
-You only remember.
-I only remember and I don’t forget.
00:40:46.958 --> 00:40:49.208
Why does it smell
like death in here?
00:40:49.208 --> 00:40:51.083
Because of the
flowers behind you.
00:40:51.083 --> 00:40:53.291
Pedro, you didn’t eat lettuce.
00:40:53.291 --> 00:40:55.875
No, because he’s a cat, not a rabbit.
00:40:55.875 --> 00:40:58.375
-I'm not a rabbit.
-The fish is dead.
00:40:58.375 --> 00:41:01.458
No, it smells like a cemetery.
00:41:01.458 --> 00:41:04.458
-My mom bought marigolds.
-Did she?
00:41:04.916 --> 00:41:08.125
To drive away bad vibes.
00:41:09.291 --> 00:41:12.625
I set up an altar and I put
the photos of my cats.
00:41:12.625 --> 00:41:14.333
-Of what?
-Of my cats.
00:41:14.333 --> 00:41:16.500
-Really?
-Yes, right, Abi?
00:41:16.500 --> 00:41:17.166
Yes.
00:41:17.166 --> 00:41:20.375
Abi is more used to dealing with me.
She lived with me...
00:41:21.333 --> 00:41:24.875
-What can she do that I can’t?
-She pampers me.
00:41:25.791 --> 00:41:27.666
-She chews for him.
-She chews for me.
00:41:27.666 --> 00:41:31.000
I changed your diapers; I know
you better than Abi does.
00:41:31.625 --> 00:41:36.000
-My adopted town is Oaxaca.
-No, that's mine.
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.000
-That adopted town belongs to Ana.
-And I’m right from the center.
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.958
You're usurping a place.
00:41:42.958 --> 00:41:47.000
Yes, so I must go to Oaxaca
and you should stay here.
00:41:47.125 --> 00:41:49.041
It’s very hot here to live.
00:41:58.125 --> 00:42:01.333
I staged a...
00:42:02.791 --> 00:42:11.083
a short scene with other
kids a little older than me,
00:42:11.083 --> 00:42:13.208
who played my parents.
00:42:13.208 --> 00:42:17.000
I had to appear
semi-naked on stage.
00:42:19.041 --> 00:42:22.041
It was like the game
of the foolish child,
00:42:22.041 --> 00:42:27.875
the mentally retarded child
who asked his parents
00:42:27.875 --> 00:42:29.000
what would happen
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:34.208
if he placed his hand on the
stove over the burning flame.
00:42:34.208 --> 00:42:37.666
This caused the father’s
annoyance, who read the newspaper,
00:42:37.666 --> 00:42:40.583
oblivious to his son’s problem;
00:42:40.583 --> 00:42:43.625
the mother, who read
a gossip magazine
00:42:43.625 --> 00:42:48.541
also unconcerned for her
son’s health or education.
00:42:48.541 --> 00:42:53.791
Actually, very similar to the life
of many families of Salina Cruz.
00:42:53.791 --> 00:42:57.625
I wore a very thin
cloth diaper
00:42:59.666 --> 00:43:02.916
and in the end I made
fun of my parents
00:43:02.916 --> 00:43:08.250
and my parents chased me around
the stage, trying to hit me.
00:43:13.541 --> 00:43:16.291
She doesn’t let me pick
up a fucking shell
00:43:16.291 --> 00:43:18.750
but she certainly wants
her picture taken...
00:43:18.750 --> 00:43:21.500
Pedro, she is here
all year round
00:43:21.500 --> 00:43:25.166
and today seems to be the first
time she's seen the sunset.
00:43:25.166 --> 00:43:28.791
On the beach of her dreams.
00:43:28.791 --> 00:43:30.416
They’re going to put it there:
00:43:30.416 --> 00:43:34.666
the first time that Mrs. Catalina
went to the beach,
00:43:34.666 --> 00:43:38.583
with her fly shades and
her PRI party T-shirt.
00:43:54.250 --> 00:43:58.916
-Here comes the prince.
-And the princess.
00:43:58.916 --> 00:44:01.500
Does it look like he got into a
fight or he had a bath first?
00:44:01.500 --> 00:44:02.791
He had a bath first.
00:44:02.791 --> 00:44:05.166
-Doesn’t he look dirty?
-No.
00:44:05.166 --> 00:44:07.041
Okay. The magic of cartoons.
00:44:07.041 --> 00:44:09.916
In fact, it seems to
me that this king,
00:44:09.916 --> 00:44:12.458
who is supposedly the
father of the prince,
00:44:12.458 --> 00:44:16.541
is also the father
of Cinderella.
00:44:16.541 --> 00:44:18.500
-Why?
-Because they look alike.
00:44:19.041 --> 00:44:21.416
They are almost identical.
00:44:31.333 --> 00:44:33.041
Since I was a child,
00:44:33.041 --> 00:44:39.500
the refinery was the horizon
that I saw through the window
00:44:39.500 --> 00:44:46.333
and I always saw it as a
monster or demon,
00:44:46.333 --> 00:44:49.666
which gives little
and demands a lot.
00:45:03.875 --> 00:45:08.958
I started associating it with an
eye that could see everything.
00:45:15.666 --> 00:45:16.916
A wave of trash.
00:45:16.916 --> 00:45:20.833
A wave of trash, typical
of Salina Cruz.
00:45:20.833 --> 00:45:21.875
It’s a classic.
00:45:21.875 --> 00:45:24.291
Plus, we’re going
against the trash.
00:45:25.208 --> 00:45:26.625
Do you remember the motto?
00:45:26.625 --> 00:45:28.583
Yes, “Light and hope of my race.”
00:45:28.583 --> 00:45:30.375
They came up with it
00:45:30.375 --> 00:45:33.291
on our first year of middle school,
which was when I went blind.
00:45:33.291 --> 00:45:37.333
Inside the school, the
deputy director's wife
00:45:37.333 --> 00:45:40.083
was the one who wanted to
kick me out of there.
00:45:40.083 --> 00:45:44.000
Because she didn’t like
people who were different.
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.000
She marginalized right
from the start.
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:47.500
Or I was the asshole.
00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:49.750
I've always been a son of a bitch.
00:45:49.750 --> 00:45:52.416
We can’t do anything about that.
00:45:52.416 --> 00:45:54.541
-Nobody denies it.
-Ever since you were born.
00:45:54.541 --> 00:45:58.750
I always put my finger
up people's ass.
00:45:58.750 --> 00:46:03.291
I don’t know why I
have that gay liking.
00:46:05.416 --> 00:46:07.916
But, in my case, blindness
cut me out of everything.
00:46:07.916 --> 00:46:13.375
Because my path was leading to the
refinery; then, when I went blind,
00:46:13.375 --> 00:46:16.750
the refinery didn’t
accept me.
00:46:16.750 --> 00:46:23.791
There was nothing in Salina Cruz
to stop me, not even my family.
00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:37.708
After my sixth year of primary
school I was learning to drive.
00:46:37.708 --> 00:46:48.666
When I reached the top of the hill,
I saw goats crossing the road,
00:46:48.666 --> 00:46:52.875
so I decided to go
downhill at full speed,
00:46:52.875 --> 00:46:55.583
with the intention
of killing a goat.
00:46:55.583 --> 00:47:00.666
It was like my prize and in the end
we could have slow-cooked meat
00:47:00.666 --> 00:47:02.250
or something like that.
00:47:02.250 --> 00:47:07.875
The goats begin to disperse,
to get away from the road,
00:47:07.875 --> 00:47:12.625
but one of the goats keeps
running along the road.
00:47:12.625 --> 00:47:18.291
And at some point, the goat
disappeared, nowhere to be found,
00:47:18.291 --> 00:47:21.166
I suppose it jumped,
it stepped aside.
00:47:21.166 --> 00:47:25.291
I forgot that I was driving and
I started to look all around
00:47:25.291 --> 00:47:29.500
to figure out where the
fucking goat had gone.
00:47:29.500 --> 00:47:33.916
I ended up driving off the
road with my mother's car
00:47:33.916 --> 00:47:40.833
and falling in a kind of ravine and
finally crashed against some rocks.
00:47:40.833 --> 00:47:45.125
I never killed the goat, but
as a result of that accident
00:47:45.125 --> 00:47:49.500
some believe that I began
to lose my vision,
00:47:49.500 --> 00:47:53.750
because of a big blow on my head,
which I never took care of.
00:47:53.750 --> 00:47:58.416
At that time there was a
trend for an urban legend
00:47:58.416 --> 00:48:02.375
about the “Chupacabras”, which
had impregnated someone
00:48:02.375 --> 00:48:06.916
or had eaten the
children of some school,
00:48:09.250 --> 00:48:13.541
so I decided that the
goat that I tried to kill
00:48:13.541 --> 00:48:17.041
was not really a goat
but the Chupacabras.
00:48:34.291 --> 00:48:38.333
You can see other lives, you
can also see people’s guides:
00:48:38.333 --> 00:48:40.333
those are beings of light,
they are not shadows,
00:48:40.333 --> 00:48:43.625
they are very tall silhouettes...
of light.
00:48:43.625 --> 00:48:49.000
I can also see when the soul of a
person or its spirit can move:
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:53.208
they are very bright silhouettes,
yellow, a kind of golden...
00:48:53.208 --> 00:48:55.166
I see how they
move with thought,
00:48:55.166 --> 00:48:58.000
the thought travels and I
read the person’s thought,
00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:59.750
or their ancestors may appear:
00:48:59.750 --> 00:49:02.000
a grandfather or someone
who has already left.
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.083
There are also spirits
00:49:04.083 --> 00:49:08.125
that are in lower astral
levels or less evolved,
00:49:08.125 --> 00:49:11.375
one has to learn
to identify them.
00:49:12.083 --> 00:49:15.458
You can channel a spirit
that is not even family
00:49:15.458 --> 00:49:17.333
and it just interferes
and says things.
00:49:17.333 --> 00:49:21.250
And the souls that haven’t
been able to grow in
00:49:21.250 --> 00:49:24.458
certain aspects in their lives
or transcend certain things,
00:49:24.458 --> 00:49:30.208
or souls that hate or want revenge
or are destructive are there.
00:49:51.958 --> 00:49:55.041
When I arrive home,
I leave my cane,
00:49:55.041 --> 00:49:59.333
which I use to walk on the street,
at the entrance of my house.
00:49:59.333 --> 00:50:04.625
It’s like the symbolic act of
leaving prejudice and disability
00:50:04.625 --> 00:50:10.666
outside home, and inside
home being human,
00:50:10.666 --> 00:50:18.000
being a person and not just
being a pair of useless eyes.
00:50:27.875 --> 00:50:34.166
I don’t usually leave my house,
I lead an apocalyptic type of life,
00:50:34.166 --> 00:50:37.083
waiting for the
end of the world.
00:50:53.333 --> 00:50:54.416
There is a death,
00:50:54.416 --> 00:50:56.041
it’s like the discontinuity
of consciousness,
00:50:56.041 --> 00:50:58.583
it’s like being asleep
and suddenly waking up.
00:50:58.583 --> 00:51:02.666
The only thing that dies
is matter, the body,
00:51:02.666 --> 00:51:06.500
and what remains alive and has
continuity, is the spirit.
00:51:26.041 --> 00:51:28.333
With my dad I had to deal with
something very difficult.
00:51:28.333 --> 00:51:31.791
Two years before he died,
I knew he was going to leave.
00:51:32.375 --> 00:51:35.250
He would go to me for healing,
00:51:35.250 --> 00:51:36.958
and one day,
00:51:36.958 --> 00:51:38.541
I told my dad...
00:51:39.125 --> 00:51:41.791
It suddenly came to me...
00:51:41.791 --> 00:51:43.250
I felt that his
guide was there,
00:51:43.250 --> 00:51:45.666
because sometimes I
channel people’s angels
00:51:45.666 --> 00:51:49.583
when they want to give very
specific information to someone.
00:51:49.583 --> 00:51:50.083
I said,
00:51:50.083 --> 00:51:56.458
“Dad, you're going to die of
cancer, and I see you in bed.”
00:51:57.333 --> 00:51:59.250
That day, when he was in a very bad state,
00:51:59.250 --> 00:52:01.666
I spent the night
with him; suddenly
00:52:01.666 --> 00:52:07.791
I saw particles coming off him, like
little dark-green light spheres,
00:52:07.791 --> 00:52:10.250
I could see a golden
path with trees.
00:52:10.250 --> 00:52:13.541
It was very strange, his
mother approached him.
00:52:13.541 --> 00:52:14.500
I thought, “Wow”,
00:52:14.500 --> 00:52:16.208
it was the first time I saw
something like that.
00:52:16.208 --> 00:52:19.541
Then it's true that
someone comes to get you,
00:52:20.083 --> 00:52:23.458
and my dad's spirit was no longer
in his body, it was outside,
00:52:23.458 --> 00:52:26.291
it was a golden light,
a golden silhouette.
00:52:42.625 --> 00:52:45.625
Yes, I was telling you
about my grandfather,
00:52:46.166 --> 00:52:49.416
who was kind of important
here in the town,
00:52:49.416 --> 00:52:56.000
with 12 children,
with all the...
00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.208
Oh, I felt that someone
touched my arm.
00:52:58.208 --> 00:53:02.333
-Oh, well. Grandfather has arrived.
-No shit!
00:53:02.333 --> 00:53:05.041
In fact, we're here, Pedro.
00:53:05.041 --> 00:53:12.083
Let's check, let me turn my
lamp on, to see if it's...
00:53:12.125 --> 00:53:15.125
-Well, it is, right?
-I suppose, if I'm not wrong.
00:53:15.125 --> 00:53:19.375
Look, it's Mr. Fidencio
Gijón Hernández.
00:53:19.375 --> 00:53:22.583
He was born on
November 11, 1902.
00:53:22.583 --> 00:53:23.666
Yes.
00:53:24.125 --> 00:53:28.416
And he died on May 15, 1984.
00:53:28.416 --> 00:53:34.166
And then, Pedro, the Virgin of
Guadalupe, you already know her.
00:53:34.166 --> 00:53:35.041
Yes.
00:53:35.041 --> 00:53:38.041
My family and I are
very detached,
00:53:38.041 --> 00:53:40.291
both on my mother's
and on my father's side.
00:53:40.291 --> 00:53:41.416
Do they reach out to you?
00:53:41.416 --> 00:53:44.625
Not at all, it's
like I don’t have a family.
00:53:44.625 --> 00:53:50.875
-Your family is long-lived, right?
-Yes, how scary! That terrifies me.
00:53:50.875 --> 00:53:53.458
-Both sides?
-Yes.
00:53:53.458 --> 00:53:54.958
So, you'll be here.
00:53:54.958 --> 00:53:56.666
My grandparents died
over 80.
00:53:56.666 --> 00:54:01.083
My plan
was to die at 30.
00:54:01.083 --> 00:54:03.375
I've been here for 4 extra
years more in this...
00:54:03.375 --> 00:54:07.791
-Why was your plan to die at 30?
-I’ve never visualized myself
00:54:07.791 --> 00:54:09.958
with more than 30 years of age.
00:54:09.958 --> 00:54:12.041
-How old are you, Pedro?
-34.
00:54:12.041 --> 00:54:17.708
-Oh, well, you lost your chance.
-As J.K. Rowling says:
00:54:17.708 --> 00:54:21.500
“Death is another step
towards adventure.”
00:54:21.500 --> 00:54:22.958
-Of course.
-Yes.
00:54:23.458 --> 00:54:26.500
-And you come back.
-Somehow. Hopefully.
00:54:26.500 --> 00:54:30.583
-I mean, you do believe, don’t you?
-In returning, in being reborn.
00:54:30.583 --> 00:54:35.791
And I long to be reborn as
a cat, to return as a cat.
00:54:35.791 --> 00:54:38.833
We don’t know that, Pedro,
it depends on how you behave.
00:54:38.833 --> 00:54:40.500
That's why I
love cats so much,
00:54:40.500 --> 00:54:44.000
so that when I reincarnate in a
cat, I get an owner like me.
00:54:44.750 --> 00:54:46.250
Lovely.
00:54:46.250 --> 00:54:49.750
-His birthday was on Friday.
-How old did it turn?
00:54:49.750 --> 00:54:51.208
Four years old.
00:54:51.208 --> 00:54:54.541
-Light the candles, will you, Isa?
-Coming.
00:54:56.916 --> 00:54:58.833
Look there, look there.
00:55:04.291 --> 00:55:08.958
-Do you want some cake?
-Yes. What about you?
00:55:08.958 --> 00:55:11.583
-Don’t be scared.
-Or are you talking to Nabor?
00:55:11.583 --> 00:55:13.750
I tell the cat.
00:55:14.875 --> 00:55:18.083
-Oh, I can’t light the candles.
-Can’t you?
00:55:18.083 --> 00:55:20.166
Well, yes, but they’re...
00:55:20.166 --> 00:55:25.250
it’s a bit complicated
with the lighter.
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:27.875
Okay, it’s done.
00:55:29.250 --> 00:55:30.541
-Done?
-Yes.
00:55:30.541 --> 00:55:35.416
Oh, let’s see if we can do this.
Look at the cake.
00:55:35.416 --> 00:55:37.958
I'm just going to
pull the table.
00:55:39.500 --> 00:55:42.958
-Have you seen it?
-Yes, he saw it.
00:55:42.958 --> 00:55:47.416
Shall I put the hat on him?
00:55:47.416 --> 00:55:49.666
-Let's see.
-The hat was here.
00:55:49.666 --> 00:55:55.125
Let's see, try to put it on it.
00:55:57.416 --> 00:56:02.958
Oh, yes. There it is. He
seems to be a bit angry.
00:56:05.375 --> 00:56:08.291
-Does it fall off?
-Yes, it’s big on it.
00:56:08.291 --> 00:56:11.125
-It's its ears, right?
-Yes. He doesn’t want it.
00:56:11.125 --> 00:56:14.333
-Yes, take it off.
-Okay, Nabor.
00:56:14.541 --> 00:56:15.791
Blow.
00:56:16.333 --> 00:56:19.666
There, there, there. Come,
I'll give you some cake.
00:56:20.416 --> 00:56:21.958
Here.
00:56:31.208 --> 00:56:35.125
-Did you like it?
-Yes?
00:56:35.125 --> 00:56:40.833
-It’s smelling, with its little nose.
-Let’s see, blow there.
00:56:43.666 --> 00:56:47.250
-Have they…?
-No, blow more.
00:56:47.250 --> 00:56:50.291
But a little more
to your right.
00:56:50.291 --> 00:56:54.416
-Ah, that’s it.
-There you go. Now further down.
00:56:55.791 --> 00:56:57.458
That’s it.
00:56:58.083 --> 00:56:59.791
Ah, he doesn’t want
to anymore.
00:56:59.791 --> 00:57:00.833
Nabor.
00:57:06.333 --> 00:57:11.791
I like to say that I’m a lover of
the night or a child of darkness,
00:57:11.791 --> 00:57:17.708
in a way because of my blindness
and also because of my messy past,
00:57:17.708 --> 00:57:19.541
suddenly so dark.
00:57:19.541 --> 00:57:22.958
There can be no light
if there’s no darkness,
00:57:22.958 --> 00:57:27.958
they always go hand in hand.
00:57:27.958 --> 00:57:31.166
I could even think
that darkness
00:57:31.166 --> 00:57:36.541
is fertile and light can
be deadly at times.
00:57:59.750 --> 00:58:07.500
One night I dreamt of stars
that suddenly fall on a bed,
00:58:07.500 --> 00:58:11.750
and I’m in that bed,
and the stars fall,
00:58:11.750 --> 00:58:17.291
but when they fall they
become Braille letters
00:58:17.291 --> 00:58:23.125
that begin to bounce on the
bed, trying to wake me up.
00:58:45.041 --> 00:58:47.833
We are going up and what
you see are the mountains,
00:58:47.833 --> 00:58:51.708
the green of the mountains,
the foliage and the clouds.
00:58:51.708 --> 00:58:54.458
I love the clouds, Pedro,
because they are something
00:58:54.458 --> 00:58:59.000
between white and gray, and the
blue is a very clear blue.
00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:01.500
The thing that amazed me the most
is that Pedro sees.
00:59:01.500 --> 00:59:02.625
It was the first
thing I said to him,
00:59:02.625 --> 00:59:04.333
“You can see”,
and he replied,
00:59:04.333 --> 00:59:06.041
“What?” “You can see.”
00:59:06.041 --> 00:59:08.875
Pedro’s third eye is very open.
00:59:19.375 --> 00:59:21.750
What were you saying?
00:59:21.750 --> 00:59:23.208
That I decided not to see, right?
00:59:23.208 --> 00:59:25.083
Yes, because you didn’t
like what you saw.
00:59:25.083 --> 00:59:26.666
Because I didn’t like what I saw.
00:59:58.666 --> 01:00:01.708
And something that surprised
me is that in order to see you
01:00:01.708 --> 01:00:04.041
I have to close my eyes.
01:00:04.041 --> 01:00:06.583
I see with my eyes open
and I couldn’t...
01:00:06.583 --> 01:00:08.375
A voice inside me said,
01:00:08.375 --> 01:00:09.708
“You have to close them.”
01:00:17.041 --> 01:00:18.708
Another thing your
mother said is that
01:00:18.708 --> 01:00:21.791
I have a lot of
power in my hands.
01:00:21.791 --> 01:00:25.833
Yes, he also has a special power in
his hands, in his sense of touch.
01:00:25.833 --> 01:00:28.416
And I cover my hands a lot, I...
01:00:28.416 --> 01:00:30.375
-You protect them.
-Yes.
01:00:30.375 --> 01:00:32.750
-He washes them a lot.
-I wash them a lot.
01:00:32.750 --> 01:00:36.708
I don’t allow people to
touch my hands much.
01:00:36.708 --> 01:00:40.416
-Seriously?
-Or shake hands, or...
01:00:41.666 --> 01:00:46.000
-Because of the flu.
-Because of the flu, of the germs.
01:00:49.041 --> 01:00:52.333
But there was a very luminous path
inside Pedro’s darkness.
01:01:21.750 --> 01:01:24.708
Ah, and the gift of manifestation!
01:01:24.708 --> 01:01:26.458
Yes, you have a great
power to manifest.
01:01:26.666 --> 01:01:29.958
Power to manifest.
01:01:30.083 --> 01:01:33.500
He manifests everything he
wants, positive or negative.
01:01:44.041 --> 01:01:51.750
Ring the door bell three times.
Three times I cheated on you.
01:01:59.583 --> 01:02:03.500
And then just shake the rest,
the one on the refrigerator.
01:02:05.916 --> 01:02:07.625
As if you mean it, Isamar.
01:02:26.458 --> 01:02:28.708
-What now?
-And the one back.
01:02:28.708 --> 01:02:31.208
And now start throwing
in the chilies.
01:02:37.875 --> 01:02:40.500
-I can’t see the other chili.
-Here it is.
01:02:41.750 --> 01:02:43.916
I don’t know how the
smoke is doing, Isamar.
01:02:44.291 --> 01:02:47.250
It’s rather strong, it’s
already burning my eyes.
01:02:47.500 --> 01:02:49.166
No, it doesn’t smell.
01:02:49.166 --> 01:02:51.000
-I can smell it.
-Can you?
01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:54.375
-It smells like chili.
-But very little. No, yes.
01:02:54.375 --> 01:02:56.375
-You see?
-It smells really strong.
01:02:56.375 --> 01:02:58.250
You were not close enough.
01:02:58.708 --> 01:03:04.666
-But is the smoke thick?
-I think it’s thick.
01:03:04.916 --> 01:03:07.916
You have a cage. Did you
have birds or what?
01:03:07.916 --> 01:03:10.541
I found it on the
street and I liked it.
01:03:11.833 --> 01:03:14.708
And weren’t you
worried it had germs?
01:03:15.500 --> 01:03:17.708
That’s why I have
it back there.
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:21.416
And here all over
the living room.
01:03:24.625 --> 01:03:27.375
-Yes? All over here?
-Yes.
01:03:28.625 --> 01:03:33.291
-Over there?
-We’re going to choke here, Pedro.
01:03:33.291 --> 01:03:35.833
And across the entrance hallway.
01:03:37.541 --> 01:03:40.291
Oh, man.
01:03:41.500 --> 01:03:44.083
Do you feel purified?
01:03:44.083 --> 01:03:46.500
A session with you mum,
a walk in the mountains
01:03:46.500 --> 01:03:47.583
and then, in the end, chili.
01:03:55.583 --> 01:04:01.000
“Our desire for images is our response
to the existence of a third eye
01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:05.250
which is aware of the misfortunes
of our physical gaze.”
01:04:05.250 --> 01:04:06.375
Evgen Bavčar
01:04:13.375 --> 01:04:14.916
The first thing I could feel
01:04:14.916 --> 01:04:20.291
was his inner child asking to be
saved, taken out of a very dark place.
01:04:20.291 --> 01:04:22.541
There’s a lot of pain
01:04:22.541 --> 01:04:25.875
in the child locked up in there.
01:04:52.791 --> 01:04:56.541
-The sun would hide behind...
-No.
01:04:56.541 --> 01:05:00.291
-On one side?
-Yes. And in front.
01:05:00.291 --> 01:05:04.041
The sun rather follows the
path of the road, right?
01:05:04.041 --> 01:05:06.291
In a way?
01:05:06.291 --> 01:05:08.000
More towards...
01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:11.416
I think coming out
of the curve...
01:05:11.416 --> 01:05:15.708
If we went to Etla, the sun
would be on our left side;
01:05:17.625 --> 01:05:19.125
right where
you’re turning,
01:05:19.125 --> 01:05:22.208
where we’re feeling the
light, in that direction.
01:05:22.208 --> 01:05:24.833
But does the road continue
in that direction or
01:05:24.833 --> 01:05:28.083
would the sun continue
along the top of the hill?
01:05:28.083 --> 01:05:30.291
-Along the top of the hill.
-Along the top of the hill.
01:05:52.041 --> 01:05:57.000
My parents always left a light on,
it was usually the bathroom light,
01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:01.166
so if one suddenly got up
because he was thirsty
01:06:01.166 --> 01:06:03.000
or because he wanted
to go to the bathroom,
01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:08.083
there was always a halo
of light or clarity
01:06:08.083 --> 01:06:15.166
that allowed us to wander around
the house at any time at night.
01:06:15.166 --> 01:06:18.083
Later, being blind,
01:06:18.083 --> 01:06:20.958
I kept leaving the light
on because
01:06:20.958 --> 01:06:24.375
I felt that without that
light I couldn’t...
01:06:24.375 --> 01:06:31.166
I can’t sleep. I need to
know that there is a light.
01:06:53.916 --> 01:06:56.708
My cat is making
his mess back there.
01:06:56.708 --> 01:06:59.500
It makes me nervous because
there must be ants in my room
01:06:59.500 --> 01:07:00.583
because of the Coke.
01:07:00.583 --> 01:07:06.625
-No, not a single ant.
-Yes, I see them, with my inner eye.
01:07:06.625 --> 01:07:11.333
Now that we go, I’ll empty the three
cans of insecticide that I have.
01:07:27.208 --> 01:07:30.833
With a lump in the throat,
01:07:34.291 --> 01:07:37.625
begging for salvation.
01:07:41.666 --> 01:07:45.416
The dark nights of the soul
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:55.041
draw a ray and storms
that precede calm.
01:07:57.208 --> 01:08:08.041
Enlightened, obsessed,
invoking divinity.
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:16.875
The discharge of love that melts
and accelerates the heart.
01:08:17.333 --> 01:08:23.041
A greater force that
makes us delirious.
01:08:24.375 --> 01:08:31.875
Enlightened by fire, pierced
by the triumphal sword
01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:37.416
in an outburst of
celestial light.
01:08:41.750 --> 01:08:45.083
Recited prayers
01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:51.750
go in search of faith.
01:08:56.291 --> 01:08:59.625
We abandon science,
01:09:03.458 --> 01:09:06.625
knowing that everything
is a miracle,
01:09:06.625 --> 01:09:09.583
that coherence is over.
01:09:11.750 --> 01:09:17.208
Enlightened, obsessed,
01:09:18.458 --> 01:09:22.625
supernatural feeling,
01:09:22.625 --> 01:09:28.125
enlightened, amazed,
01:09:29.958 --> 01:09:37.333
accepting
the total renunciation of will.
01:09:39.208 --> 01:09:46.208
The discharge of love that melts
and accelerates the heart.
01:09:46.291 --> 01:09:51.958
A greater force that
makes us delirious.
01:09:53.541 --> 01:10:01.083
Enlightened by fire, pierced
by the triumphal sword
01:10:03.083 --> 01:10:06.916
in an outburst of
celestial light.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 70 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish / English subtitles
Grade: Middle School, High School, College, Adults
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