Shadows of Ourselves

The feeling of being persecuted. If history reminds us at every turn of women and men of different religions, creeds and beliefs who have been questioned, arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death, it is impossible not to look at this animation in the light of current days. This distressing, demonstrative, uncomfortable feeling is conveyed to us in this film through a play of shadows created using the sand animation technique. If we think about the technique itself, the use of this mineral, sand, as a set of degraded rock particles formed by the erosion of time, we can see a metaphor for what is hidden under that sand, what is concealed or what doesn’t want to appear. It can be a shadow, a hiding place or a prison, it always depends on the perspective of the one looking and the one being looked at. That’s why Serrazina built this work, which is both abstract and concrete, with light and shadows, to the sound of a lament that comes from far away, from time immemorial, and which tinges, breaks, ignites and causes disturbance. Serrazina once again surprises us with an arresting cinematographic gesture. (Miguel Valverde)