« I saw three black lights »: vibrant dead – Liberation

I saw three black lights tells us a story that has the form and detours of a quest, it is a tale painted on a vegetable background to deploy, in digital and on the way, its fantastic little ecology. A 70-year-old man, who is challenged in the surroundings under his full name, José de Los Santos, when he needs him, leaves the Afro-Colombian community of his small village to sink into the surrounding jungle, a place of goals and their dangers. Healer, renowned in the area for his wisdom, José (played by the theater actor and Professor Jesús Maria Mina) is also known to know how to take care of the dead: their bodies for funeral rites, their minds for the passage. It is a gift transmitted from father to son, but that of José, Pium-Pium, was taken to him, killed a few years earlier. It is that in Aguaclara, on the Colombian Pacific Coast, the living and the non-living are threatened by the war which continues between the armed forces of the country and the factions of the guerrilla warfare.

When Pium-Pium appears to his father to tell him his imminent death, and he enjoins him to find a peaceful place in the forest, in the footsteps of his ancestors, José de Los Santos leaves his house and leaves to meet the ghosts of reality, much less reassuring than the specters with whom he treats daily. The film by Santiago Lozano Alvarez evokes the endless armed conflict and the brutality of deforestation, on which the steps of his H