64 minutes // Color and Black and White
This film exists because of a summer vacation. We went to Acapulco in the summer of 2018 and spent a week there. I had always planned to shoot something while on this vacation, but the exact shape it would take was unclear. I remember writing down a list of ideas and situations that I could shoot. But it was always very nebulous since I wasn’t exactly sure what we would be doing on this vacation. The idea was also to make something short and breezy, a film in the pop mode, as compared to my previous films.
Of course, each film ultimately decides what it wants to be – sometimes outside of our control. The breezy pop film I longed to make turned into something a little more melancholy and sad. The potential short turned into another feature. Everything that I originally planned became something else.
Veranito (Once Again) tells the story of a young girl who tries to write stories, and through those stories we chart the path of her emotions, her innocence, her maturity. What does it mean that she tries to write a poem? What is the difference between one story and another one? Is it progress? Is it confusion? All throughout we return to that original summer vacation, the site of her creative birth, her consciousness. It’s a story of an emotional formation. And how that looks like, to herself, to others. Surrounded by family, we are privy to her emotions, comments, doubts, etc. – and through the juxtaposition of this voiceover against the images it draws a complex portrait of this young girl as she becomes herself.
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So Many Dreams 