Temporal
2020
HD video with a single channel sound
12′ 56”
Director, concept and editor: Lorena Mal
Sound design: Homero González
 
Commissioned by El Aleph Festival, UNAM, 2020
With the support of Biosphere 2, University of Arizona
Contact support by José Lever, UNAM-University of Arizona
text by Lorena Mal
Mexico City, June 2020
A storm [trans. spanish: temporal] with jungles, and thunder, and earthquakes, and falls, and landslides, and the sea, and rain, and false rain from a human-made biosphere in a dome at the Arizona desert, and stalactites of thousands of years inside caves at Mayan territory in Yucatán, and the grumbling of dunes, and the magnetic movement of meteorites, and the sound of lungs and blood circulation inside humans, and the synapsis of a neuron, and whales, and crickets from Japan and Latinamerica, and the magnetic field of a solar storm in space, and calls of birds from Mexico city and all continents, and Antarctic ice breaking, and the calling of frogs and toads from different seasons, and fire, a lot of fire, and little fishes that make big sounds, and birds imitating humans, and humans imitating animals or water or wind or whistling encrypted messages in the Oaxaca mountains

SCREENINGS

TV UNAM, online transmission, 2021
 
Sala Julio Bracho, Centro Cultural Universitario, Ecofilm Festival, MX Sala, 2021
 
José Revueltas, Centro Cultural Universitario, Ecofilm Festival, MX, 2021
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