Juan is on the beautiful mountain of La Sarna trying to make a documentary when two events lead him to confront serious topics: on the one hand, the discovery of a violent event related to the place, and on the other, the progressive loss of his sight.
The birds that inhabit La Sarna, in Colombia, carry multiple meanings. For the Andean culture, some of these birds absorb bad luck by confronting it; others believe that certain species embody evil, seen as bad omens for some communities. Amidst the legends and folklore of his country, and facing an illness in his optic nerve, Juan Sebastián Sisa draws an intelligent connection between his own loss of vision and the historical obscuring of a violent event that marked his land. A symptom that transcends not only his country’s collective memory but also, in a way, could resonate throughout Latin America in a whole. (Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro)
