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Del agua al aire. The transformation of natural elements in cinema

Cinema is alchemy

Over the last ten years I made several short films; in this program, four of them are presented under the title Del agua al aire. The main concern throughout these years of work has been water; I have always dreamed of a cinema that seems submerged, wet, an underwater world of reverie. Digression and incongruity have not been a whim but rather a way of restoring, in moving images and sounds, the space-time we fabricate while sleeping, perception deformed by the density of water. Just as water passes through different states, my cinema has undergone a transformation — from the liquid to the gaseous. Now I face ethereal and vaporous images, a cinema that floats, that is mobile and light. Del agua al aire accounts for that condensation, for my transformation.

- Simón Vélez

Short film program

Del agua al aire (2025) 1″
Self-portrait

Historia del agua (2016) 13″
Two friends, two soldiers and a crop duster share a common story surrounded by
forest and water.

La máxima longitud de un puente (2018) 13″
After jumping off a bridge, William steals a motorcycle to take Gina for a ride.

Los mayores ríos se deslizan bajo tierra (2022) 19″
After a failed casting, Sofía sells her lamps to go work on a strawberry
farm.

Historia del aire (2024) 15″
Jairo works at an ice cream shop. One day he finds a valuable pre-Columbian figurine that
he trades for a motorcycle and some cash at a pawnshop.

After the screening, a conversation will take place with Simón Vélez, director of the film.