Altiplano by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth

The film comes closer to deciphering that issues which seemed to have stayed in a second plan in the man daily life. These are the personal relationships of respect towards the environment and human relations beyond self-interest. The search starts without exploring the identity of each of the characters in an individual conception, but rather in a cultural one.

A bride is a bride in any part of the world and a doctor is also a doctor. However, Altiplano plays out like a clothing item where the threads intersect each other looking for a new figure at every step. It could be done with the fingers that seek to restore the image that makes us, a symbol of another time, that symbol that lives side by side and in the same time is the center of other stories.

A Belgian optometrist arrives in Peru to collaborate in a medical center in the Andes. A bride waits the day of her wedding. A mistake produces a delay and a series of casualties begin, provoking an unexpected resolution (for those who have another distance, the mental one). Altiplano is esthetically close to Eréndira Ikikunari by Juan Mora or Babel, by Gonzáles Iñarritu. It narrates, with a very wide sound spectrum, the strong presence that the Andes produce; the mountain is reflected in the film in its silences and dialogues.

Claudio Sanchez