Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent José Lezama Lima the hereafter thereafter

To make a film about a poet it is necessary to move away from all cinematographic purpose all technical language all aestheticizing intention we should just think like him in terms of image and animism of arrow and spell The film in question will then be a tree and every facet of his work a branch the trunk his life Thus this incipient metaphor will evolve in the form of the film the body of the image is henceforth encircled by the cortex of sound whose independent relief segregates its own layers of meaning the cavities through which the silence of an army of ants searches for its center