Olivia and the Clouds (Olivia y Las Nubes)
Olivia cannot forget Ramon, and keeps his ghost under her bed. As we embark on a trip through memories of their affair, the film’s circular structure invites the audience to adopt multiple perspectives of the story, through a variety of animation styles (hand and digital drawn, cut out, claymation, stop motion and others).
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat offers us a dizzying whirlpool of forms and colours, in which stories intertwine with each other and the narration follows the logic of dreams. And in dreams, thoughts are hungry for jumps and links and want to grasp it all.
A surreal exploration of the memory of love’s enduring power, with the premise that emotional growth is the never-ending process or learning how to live with our ghosts and befriend them.