Project %22Work In Progress%22 in production phase since 2014

The irony of nature and its whims before an image that never happened. How to represent a reality that is missing images?

On October 10, 2011, a volcanic eruption took place in the underwater vicinity of the small Canarian island of El Hierro. During this process, which lasted until the first months of 2012, there were up to 250 earthquakes in one day and an underwater mountain of more than 250 meters high was created. It was then speculated on the possibility of a new island being formed. Something that finally did not happen because the cone was less than a hundred meters from the surface.

The project ‘La noche del mediodía’ takes as its starting hypothesis the possibility of this island, as a social imaginary fabled by the inhabitants of El Hierro, a traditional geographical, economic but also symbolic periphery. From the fictionalization of the resources of documentary cinema, the audiovisual construction of a new spatiality is proposed through shared ways of looking and interpreting.

Thus, the impossible testimony of an imaginary island is configured, a persistent human fantasy that can be traced throughout the centuries, so was the Utopia of Tomás More. Un territorio de lo afectivo caracterizado en palabras de Omar Calabrese por ser el ‘espacio por excelencia donde invertir unos sistemas de valores culturalizados y generar distopías, mundos alternativos, mundos al revés’. A symbolic geography of insular form through which to make memory of a past that did not take place and transfer the experiences of a present that is not.