Entrelazado
[Entangled]
film and research project, 2012-2015




“Suddenly, everyone felt a big shake. […]
Then, we realized that the bus had fallen into the Cali River.

The police arrived and asked about the cause of the accident. The bus driver told them that he saw a lion sitting in the middle of the road. They laughed a lot and decided to go to the zoo to inquire whether a lion had escaped.”

In quantum physics, if two particles interact in a certain way and then become separated, regardless of how distant they are from each other, they will share a state called ‘quantum entanglement.’ That is, they will continue to share information despite their separation. This theory used to upset Einstein. In his theory of relativity, no transmission of information could occur faster than the speed of light; therefore, he couldn’t understand how the two particles could be simultaneously connected.

Entrelazado is a research project on a series of interwoven narratives taking place in Cali, Colombia.
It is composed of a film, a series of documents, and a slideshow.

The film intertwines four interviews collected in Cali. A tailor, a puppeteer, a parapsychologist, and a physicist narrate certain episodes supposedly occurred in the city: the disappearance of a cow; a form of possession caused by a puppet; a paradox in quantum mechanics; the fall of a bus into a river caused by a lion on the road.

A latent ‘entanglement’ between the four stories emerges, outlining possible examples of action at a distance.


Full Film (DAFilms.com)

trailer

installation view, Lo Schermo dell'Arte, Firenze, Italy






The project includes a series of documents collected from the personal archives of the four people involved.

Exhibited at: Lo Schermo dell'Arte, Firenze, Italy; Fondazione Baruchello, Roma, Italy (2018); Shoonya, Bangalore, India; notgalerie Seestadt, Vienna, Austria (2017); International Film Festival Rotterdam (Bright Future section), The Netherlands; FICUNAM Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (El Porvenir section), Ciudad de México (2016); FIDMarseille, France (Grand Prix of the international competition); New York Film Festival, USA; Doc Buenos Aires, Argentina; FIAC (Cinéphémère), Paris, France; Pariscience, Paris, France; Les Rencontres du cinéma documentaire, Paris, France (2015); MIDBO - Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá (Colombia); Festival de Cine de Cali (Colombia); Filmmaker Festival, Milan (Italia); Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia (2014); Galerie Ton de Boer, Amsterdam; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy (2013); lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia (2012).