Ana Vaz stelt film voor als een fysieke ervaring. In Amérika: Bahía de las Flechas laten de constante camerabewegingen en verschuivende perspectieven de kijker opgaan in het landschap van Lago Enriquillo, een verdwijnend meer in de Dominicaanse Republiek.
“It is said that in the year of 1492, the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus, disembarked on the coast of Samaná, present-day Dominican Republic, and was received by a rain of arrows carefully plotted by the Caribbean Taíno. Presently, a saline lake named after the Taíno chief Enriquillo witnesses profound eco-systemic changes leading to species migration, forced evacuation and an expanding coral desert revealing the lake’s geologic past. Taking the camera itself as an arrow, a foreign body, Amérika: Bay of Arrows looks for ways in which to animate, to awaken, to make vibrate again this gesture in the present — arrows against a perpetual ‘falling sky’.” (Ana Vaz)
