18/03 / Filming in the 2010 Mistol, Cuenca del Pilcomayo (dep. Boqueron, Paraguay).
Unlike in Chile really here the distances are enormous. In areas like this meeting in Bolivia in 1994. It 's weird for me is like being at home, but part of me looks at me from outside, mainly through pictures and video, he says, but you're in a distant place, you should worry. Normally people do not live in tents and cook over a wood fire. Well, although I have no doubt the European and Italian, I can not feel "the adventure" as someone pointed out to me sometimes. The main difference compared to what I live every day, the 'trip outside the city' is that when the 'field' in places like this I feel the life pulsating around. The problems are real, tangible: if I take the pit with the machine it takes 2 hours to out if the engine plant there we have to do 20 km on foot, we need to collect wood for cooking around the community not because there is more, we must be attentive to relations with people, because words have weight, etc.. etc.. The anxiety of everyday life disappears, but maybe it's because the bills to pay, poor project management, your phone, are away at least 300 km of gravel road ... and luckily the only thing I can do is what I like: talking to people, tell me how they live, film. Maybe just the sound of modernity is far away, and most of the problems that beset us every day is not here. Logically, this is their 'journey': you move by air, while the problems traveling by land. Rest assured that if you stay more than a couple of months, you can reach. I met people who were moving constantly, I can not tell if you have achieved the same, but in the end our problems are part of us, it is how to escape from themselves.
Although communities in Latin America are similar, the difference here is huge with Chile. perceived isolation, distance and difficulties in communications. At last I see the short-wave radio that are so lacking during the emergency earthquake in Chile, where communication takes place almost entirely via phone (with the consequent cost.) Almost in every house there is an AM radio always on, and the background of music, news and announcements of Mary who gave birth and that Juan can not go back this weekend because have not yet paid are part of the soundscape. They become part of the conversation, comments that run like tererè (mate made with cold water).
in Chile I found it odd that spending on the phone from a poor family to become almost a right of first necessity. As companies gain with phone calls of people below the poverty line?
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