Vir Andres Hera
Le Romanz de Fanuel - Film - 20min - 2017
presented as part of the exhibition panorama 19
Self-contradicting upland landscapes retreating
one behind the other – volcanoes and valleys,
mountains – they are characters in the fullest
sense. They possess a presence on film, two
sides, at the same time a territory of immense
beauty, and also the symbol of constant
subjugation, that of the insignificance of man
faced with these hearts of lava; the landscape
is a mirror of the state of the soul.
A secret, unspoken story unwinds from around
a character taken from a book who wanders
through the real world.
This is Fanuel/Alferez, a being born of
the connection between two ghostly figures,
revenants; the actor’s wanderings are
a reflection of the invisible, inaccessible and
imperceptible stories using the metaphor
of a mountain exile.
As the story unfolds, we get to know his
psychology, his desire to live outside a body
that undergoes various metamorphoses.
This parallel, dislocated and anachronistic
narrative is told through the voice of an Aztec
god, Tlaloc, who roams free and who seems
to speak from his timeless dwelling place, a
divinity who observes the changes through
each epoch and landscape (no less indefinite),
and through whose mouth speak long-vanished
voices, sentences made of forgotten words.
