Wilderness

“I received an invitation to visit visual artist Alfredo DeStefano. In principle, the collaboration was to make a behind-the-scenes of his photographic work, he primarily works in landscapes. I started working with him and on the days off I set about portraying people. My work is typically focused more on people. Finally, we realized that what wasn’t initially intended to be a movie, but rather a record of the ways of life in deserts, was turning into cinema. Alfredo agreed to become co-producer and on through editing with Paloma López Carrillo we started to make sense of the images. That’s how Wilderness came to be.

I traveled where the producer would take me. For that reason, the film is put together from a place of ignorance, without pretense. That helped in finding a voice devoid of the arrogance we bring when taking cameras into an unknown and distant world.

It was a very physical experience. The lack of budget forced me to be the director, photographer, sound engineer and my own assistant at the same time. The nomadic life has the extraordinary condition of replicating the most primitive decisions in the history of man. The routes of nomadic life being the same as those of thousands of years ago.”

– Everardo González, Director