A child kneads bread dough with elemental gentleness. A transference between the primary food and its allegorical nature occurs. Association between the fierce appearance of the beings carved in the chapters of a church and their childish expression. Formless worn stone and mysterious iconography, resemblances between the figures made of bread and stone.

A stone lies in a dry, abandoned place on the outskirts of Barcelona, in the middle of a mountain that is no longer a mountain. Thousands of years ago it was used as a place to leave offerings. Sacrifices were made here as petitions for good omens.

Catalan spoken, English subtitles

From a patio, two sisters watch the clouds drift by. The rain drenches their house in colour. The waves of an ancient sea envelop its silence. No one truly knows where the house is. There is nothing there but clouds, the sisters, and their dead.

The routines of two women fuse together over time. One is busy with her bread, the other with her memories. Their similar gestures, repeated again and again, slowly unfold the special bond that unites them.

A poetic reflection on family as an emotional system that operates across generations, Here and There focuses on the passing of time, the possibilities of remembering and the construction of space as an ongoing historical and subjective process.

Weaving fragments of private and public spaces, gestures, voices and phrases, the film creates an intimate audiovisual site of personal and collective memory that reflects on the complexity of family dynamics between Lina’s grandparents, her father and his siblings during their time together in Chipaque, a small town near Bogotá. A type of cognitive map that works as a family portrait, the film juxtaposes colour 16mm, B&W mini-DV footage and photos from the filmmaker’s family archive with an impressionistic sound design and a diaristic use of text to illustrate the impossibility of looking at the past as a fixed, solid and understandable dimension.