Credits
Duration: 28 minutes
Director: Rogelio Sosa
Original script: Rogelio Sosa
Production: Mariana David Gershenson, Rhizomes Films and Rogelio Sosa
Direction of photography: Erik Mares and Andrea Rodea
Edition: Andrea Rodea and Rogelio Sosa
Music and sound design: Rogelio Sosa
Cast: Adriana Ordoñez Ortiz, Angélica García Garza, Cristóforo Chamorro Estrada, José Dolores García Víctor, Juana Chamorro Estrada, Oscar Menchaca López y Verónica Sánchez Díaz.
Associate producers: Rhizomes Films and Alina Rojas Sotres
With the support of Elastic Arts Chicago and No Idea Festival Austin
Production design: Mariana David Gershenson and Rogelio Sosa
Assistant director: Rasiel Rodríguez
Color correction: François Nobécourt
Direct sound: Chris Cogburn
Location coordinator: Cristóforo Chamorro Estrada
Make-up artist: Kira Sosa Wolffer
Production assistant: Andrés Menchaca López y Santiago Edían Carrillo Chamorro
Catering: Rafaela Santana Castillo
Manantial, 2022
In a rural Mexican setting, a group of people exhume a body in broad daylight. The story continues following their journey from sunset into the depth of night, unfolding the process of an ancestral ritual.
During the film, the exhumed body travels through different places; the corn fields announcing the countryside’s drought, a hut that seems lost in time, secret passages from a forgotten forest unto the hills where hidden forces whisper. In this careful procession the tone rises until it reaches an unexpected outcome. While sitting in a circle around the fire with the full moon as their witness, the film’s characters listen to stories that are passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth.
When writing the script, the author was already thinking on the sound of a story that would speak about the human need to maintain a balance with the natural order. It’s a tribute to the anonymous guardians of nature, to the ancient custodians of the elements and their cycles, those which sustain life. Moreover, this short film is conceived as a metaphor of rebirth through the sound and sensory dimensions of the image.
