El Gran Movimiento

SYNOPSIS

Bolivia, today. After walking for a week, Elder and his fellow miners arrive in La Paz to demand for the reinstatement of their job. Suddenly, Elder begins to feel sick. With the help of the elderly Mamá Pancha, Elder and his friends find a job in the market. But Elder’s condition gets worse, he is choking and has difficulty breathing. Mamá Pancha sends him to Max – a witch doctor, hermit and clown – who may be able to bring the young man back to life.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

When we represent life through cinema, there are several levels of representation. We can reach the highest point of fiction where everything is created almost in 3D, but we also have the possibility of thinking about cinema as the reflection of a moment. Even though the scenes never paint the exact same reality, they can be close or far from it. I am very interested in the traces of time, in this case the traces of time are captured in the walls of a city. On the other hand, optics can condition our gaze and sometimes make us see things that are invisible to our eyes, which is why I am so interested in zooming in this film. La Paz is a city where you always see several neighborhoods including neighborhoods on the mountain in front of you. We see the houses but we can’t see the people and when we zoom in, we can see the details and it’s another world compared to the one seen from afar. This relationship of being able to see and not see, seems to me very close to the idea of the relationship between individuality and the crowd. We are immersed in the middle of a crowd but we can’t see anyone. El Gran Movimiento is an exploration of this relationship between the individual and the multitude. The film aims to give an idea of how this system works.