El Nino

Film Maker
Betts, Gerard
Year
1998
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
13
Genre
experimental

“El Nino” is a poetic experimental film about traveling. On a journey over land and sea, and in a dream on a journey of the soul, a young man suddenly sees the world through the eyes of a child. But as he comes to a crossroads, he sees there are two worlds. One floats in isolation on the sea. The other lies in ruins. And at the end of the day, the ship sails away as the burning suns sets on civilization. The climatic phenomenon, we know as El Nino, was originally named by a Peruvian fisherman in the 1890s when they began to notice how the appearance of an unusually warm countercurrent in the Pacific would dramatically affect weather conditions. Since the phenomenon would appear each year around Christmas time, they named it El Nino in reference to the Christ Child.

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