Some Kind of Sadness

While working as a photographer in Benin, West Africa, a two-week trip will turn into a two months personal journey. Me dicen Yovo (I'm a Yovo) is a visual diary of that experience. A Peruvian traveller is an odd presence in Benin whose ethnic a cultural identities are constantly creating unique situations, and provoking original thoughts on what it means to be from the "third world".

The camera is reflected in the rearview mirror of a car sliding down a dusty desert road on the Peruvian coast. This image symbolically captures the director behind the lens, observing a vast empty space that slips from the sides, trying to escape the center: the present, which simultaneously represents memory, which is at once here and yet always far from here.

A meticulously filmed documentary portrait of the hard life of the cargadores who trek through the mountains of Peru with baggage on their backs.

A woman faces an uncertain future. She recounts her life in shorts, summaries, broad strokes, and seemingly disconnected episodes. One by one, the scars and bitterness left by a life of obligations, sacrifice, and scarce joy emerge inexorably. Díario del fin is a visceral, moving record; filled with liberating and brutally honest confessions, in which every sentence is permeated with a profound introspection and a clarity of perception that seem to surface only in extreme situations—those with no point of return.