The place where everything begins and ends
Shortfilm
15:00
Stage: Distribution
Synopsis:
A research android travels through space to build reports on alien life forms. As he explores an unknown planet composed of plastic-like blends, his circuits begin to show oddities and malfunctions, jeopardizing the space traveler's mission.
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About:
The project began in 2022 as a comission for Casa Plástica, an Art House based in Bogotá, Colombia. By that time the first images were produced with high quality standards, and they were focused in a observational persepective of strange beings that appear to be merged with plastic, while looking to raise questions about the future of mankind in this planet. Some of these images were shown at the gallery's opening as part of an experimental video installation. This helped seting up the gorund for a deeper story, a detailed creation of a complete new world, as seen through the eyes of a research android. This character was never seen before, but was previously mentioned in Juan Pablo's 2018 short film "Spacewalkers" and was referred to as "The White Man", which served as inspiration to tell his story in this film.
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Form that moment on, until the end of 2025, a new guerrilla production stage began, a filmmaker's solo journey which included lots of stop motion, new observational recordings --from insects to garbage, from old found footage to drone vfx intervention to make it look microscopical, time lapses and more-- Until finally, Artist/Director Daffy London stepped in—bringing expert compositing and 3D animation to elevate some images that were sorely lacking punch. A meticulous artistic refinement took place during most of 2025 to get every shot to the expected level of ambiguity that transports the audience to the uncanny valley, the liminal experience, the intersection.
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The question is always about the place of humankind in the universe and what it has done with the given time, the question is about us, our trace, and our absence. The Place Where Everything Begins and Ends is a collage, a mashup of eerie imagery that pushes the audience in to a sort of cinema guided meditation.
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