José Luy

Leonardo Oviedo is an ambitious theatre director, whose plays haven’t accomplished the success he dreamt of. Seeking for some recognition, he decides to write a play for four characters; a one-performance only, where all actors have to die onstage. On that matter, he casts an old has-been actor, who is an alcoholic, a fat actress, an endearing and intellectually disabled boy and a black actor, who has only been cast for the color of his skin. The play brings on a media hype never seen before, is an instant success and everyone is eager for the opening night. Whit defenders and detractors, the whole country talks about Leonardo Oviedo, and he will be willing to get to the very end, to fulfill this sickening artistic ideal.

The word sceneries means both a place where a situation or action takes place and a theatre stage area. In a series of 360o movements, three different videos show clandestine, forbidden or isolated landscapes. Each scene has been staged and the situations has been built up from scratch. The images allude to the recent history of Lima, Peru, and it comes from the intersection of political and biographical images. The timeless and suspended landscapes suggest national memory as a silent and unresolved issue.

Grace es una fotógrafa de guerra que decide dejar su trabajo tras un violento accidente en Irak. Max es su marido, un cirujano belga especializado en cataratas que trabaja en una clínica oftalmológica en los Andes peruanos. No muy lejos de allí, los aldeanos de Turubamba enferman gravemente por los vertidos de mercurio de la mina local. La joven Saturnina pierde a su prometido, infectado por las aguas contaminadas. Sin saber las verdaderas causas de la epidemia, los aldeanos centran toda su furia en los médicos extranjeros, y en medio de una riña, Max es asesinado. Entonces, Grace comienza un peregrinaje hasta el lugar de los hechos. Por su parte, Saturnina toma medidas drásticas para protestar contra la interminable violencia que brota de su tierra y sus vecinos. Los destinos de Grace y Saturnina se cruzarán.

After the nuclear holocaust, one man rises from the ashes to become the leader of a ragged gang of survivors. They soon discover that their greatest challenge is yet to come; they must fight a battle for the ages against the evil minions of The Bishop.