America America was the last set of nations to be inhabited, in prehistory, by man.
Since 2016 he has made multiple trips to carry out works in which technology, science and classical culture dialogue. A trip that will soon end in Tierra del Fuego. What was the starting point and what encouraged you to go much further?
In 2016 I won a Nat Geo Explorer grant to follow in the footsteps of the Paleosiberian cities that crossed the Bering Adjustment 20,000 years ago and became the first settlers of the Americas. There I approach the cradle of animism and I also try to reiterate what worked for me with ‘A Caçada – El Cazador’, which consisted of examining the limits between fiction and situation through reportage cinema. But by the time I arrive in the region, my projects go down the drain and I approach something I had not expected: the town of Vankarem, located in Chukotka, among the much colder, eastern and unpopulated areas of the Federal Republic of Russia. . . There I had my first contact with the Chukchis and I connected with some very particular traditions. In their time and mythology, each individual is not only one, but also their father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so on. Thus, everyone carries with them a small part of their ancestors. It seemed like a very interesting path to me and I began to examine ways to understand ourselves from that multiplicity of identities, to capture that initiative in images and to achieve a way to combine the romantic part with the experimental part. One of the considerable virtues of carrying out the venture with Nat Geo is the interdisciplinary team with which I was able to work, from experts in city genetics to anthropologists or scientists.
«Europe was among the last continents to be colonized by man»
For Homer Aridjis, the energy and harmony of nature, after its incessant germination Matter, emits an ethic and spirituality that must return to the earth transfigured, to those origins that are, perhaps, the only possible revelation on the modern planet. Other dead, boned, seemed to have been exposed to acid wind and black rain, or simply turned to red ashes, or skinned. The bones, which seemed to be taken from their bodies, were stuck in the sand. Or, in certain cases, a fungus occupied the space of the boneless body, turning it into a kind of filamentous and branched phallus. Relevantly, these novels by Homero Aridjis, due to another praxis that responds to the impulse of the war, detail the collapse of the material scaffolding of the region. The atomic explosion, contrary to the common paradigms of any civilizing company, runs outside of the documented understanding and methodically filed for posterity in what forms the collective memory at an official level.