Bliss

2017 | Cuba, Italia | HD | 12’ 55”
Bliss poetically explores human consciousness and perception from the perspective of a 2 months old human being.
Existence is made of touching, eyes contemplation, body attachment and con-fusion with mother figure, that keeps us alive.
Human species survival strategy is based on love.

Festivales

– Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Sección “Vanguardia”, Cuba, 2017
– Salon Internacional de la luz, Colombia, 2019
– REFF – Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Italia, 2022 

Director’s Note

Bliss was shot in a small village in the Cuban countryside called Pueblo Textil. I observed with the camera, from a very close distance, the life of Sheila, a two-month-old baby.

The film is made of visual fragments, organized by a sensorial rather than rational criterion, structured along the axes of rhythm and the relationship between light and darkness.

The narration is intuitive and addresses the body and senses of the viewer before their judgment and rational mind. It plays at reaching the mammalian part of the human brain — the part that already exists when we are two months old, when our rational brain, the neocortex, has not yet formed.

The film is silent, thus experimenting with the sounds created in the mind during viewing, seeking synesthesia and leaving total freedom in the reception of the film.

Bliss is a “utopian” search for that era of our lives — the first months — whose sensorial and emotional memory lies buried in the intimacies of our minds.