La rivière

In this film, there are people who walk on water, because the river levels have dropped so low. As well as walking, they talk, and it is beautiful when the rivers gatecrash the soundtrack, with their parallel chattering. Rather than disagreement, this dissonance can be understood as whatever might be missing that stops us from living together better. Everything dreadful that is happening in the rivers comes down to human causes, although the people talking here actually love, study and take care of the rivers. 

The film shows the many connected processes that make up the life of a river. All these connections require a feature-length film to show so many sequences —glaciers, aquifers, dams, salmon, trout, biologists, butterflies, corn, decomposing plastic. The water gushes out or flows in gentle waves, but the most complex dynamic is the one we cannot see: a river always comes from or goes further afield. There is a recurring movement in the film, perhaps parallel to the actual water cycle: panoramas working with or against gravity, that begin in the river and finish in the sky (or vice versa). As opposed to the rivers, they represent an audience.

Manuel Asín