Los Ojos del Camino

Session Submission Type: Film

Abstract

Director: Rodrigo Otero Heraud

The Eyes of the Journey is a poetic film that expresses the feelings of Andean culture toward Mother Earth, and the search for a deeper understanding of nature as a living being, as an eternal companion for humankind.
The main character is an Andean shaman, who appears, walks and disappears in diverse geographies and Andean communities, as a wandering spirit who wants to take a last look at the sacred mountains, and converse with the spirits of water, rock and men, to get a better idea of what is the main disease our world suffers from in the present.
In the climax of the film, the shaman climbs to a powerful mountain, and listens to the message of its spirit: the disease is not physical or mental, it is a new disease, consisting of people’s hearts becoming like stone. And then he reflects: “even stones have a heart, so humans must find their way into their hearts again, leading to the heart of nature, this should be the only way out of this situation that drags us to our doom”.
The film flows sometimes as a prayer, and sometimes as a meditation through native communities and landscapes, from the highest mountains in Peru, down to the vast ocean, where rain and water start its never-ending cycles of regeneration of life. Humans who live in the highlands are portrayed from childhood to the old age, dealing with all kinds of emotions and histories.

Sub Track

• Film Festival