Follow The Water
Large-format screening of Pauline Julier and Clément Postec's film
La Centrale, Saturday, September 27 at 8:30 p.m.
Winter 2021. Atacama Desert, Chile. Around one of the world's largest lithuim mines, several protagonists recount their attachment to this land. An indigenous woman's commitment to water rights, the doubts of scientists exploring the desert as an analogue to Mars, the beliefs of industrialists, the spectres of colonization and the tales of new expalers collide. The quest for the traces of life in the universe deepens that of the film crew, vertiginous and absurd. Voices become entangled and discourses jammed. The arid, dry landscape of the desert soon merges with that of the Red Planet and its reasoned delirium. Like a crystal ball, Mars appears as the beginning and end of time.
