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.
