Unextinguished fire.
'To know how to look at an image is, in a sense, to make it distinct from a burning place, where its beauty reserves a place, a secret sign, an unpacified crisis, an empty one, a symptom. Where the ashes haven't cooled.´ Didi-Huberman.
Red comes the sky as Didi recommends: look for the cracks, the fault, the crisis of the unextinguished fire. Francina Carbonell's opera prima in 2010 has re-opened a judicial archive of the fire at San Miguel prison in Chile.
Visturium inspection is fine. He's obsessed with finding the ineffectiveness of operating images among the many materials a lawyer has to offer him after two years of struggle, which are sold as smart, objective, transparent and hygienic. They are images of prison security cameras, court records, reenactments of investigations.
In a sense, the film is another document of the case (or vice versa), and allows us to think about the possibilities of cinema as a contemporary instrument of expression and resistance.
Introduced by Vicente del Pedregal, film´s screenwriter and sound designer.
Red comes the sky as Didi recommends: look for the cracks, the fault, the crisis of the unextinguished fire.
