1 01:00:02:02 01:00:08:01 “The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, 2 01:00:08:06 01:00:15:01 for through them one reaches the original source of life" 3 01:00:22:15 01:00:25:13 In a summer night by the end of 2010 4 01:00:25:22 01:00:29:09 The only spectator to see my movie “Drifter” 5 01:00:29:14 01:00:32:06 at Cine Casablanca in Montevideo 6 01:00:32:13 01:00:35:03 sat on a row behind me 7 01:00:35:21 01:00:39:21 We watched silently the entire movie in that empty cinema 8 01:00:41:22 01:00:46:21 At the movie's crucial moment she stood up and I thought she was gone 9 01:00:47:21 01:00:52:04 but shortly after that she came back and took the same seat 10 01:00:53:18 01:00:56:20 Maybe she had missed the best scene of the movie 11 01:00:57:00 01:00:59:00 due to her full bladder 12 01:00:59:23 01:01:01:17 But also because of it 13 01:01:02:04 01:01:04:22 I had the need to approach her by the end 14 01:01:05:03 01:01:09:01 and say that she had to see the movie again 15 01:01:09:21 01:01:13:04 We left the place wandering by the late night 16 01:01:13:16 01:01:17:08 and we keep on walking together to this day 17 01:01:54:03 01:01:56:01 A raindrop is born 18 01:01:56:22 01:02:01:09 and it immediately enterprises a vertiginous and suicidal downfall 19 01:02:01:18 01:02:04:04 from the skies to your body 20 01:02:05:17 01:02:08:09 The impact makes it multiply itself 21 01:02:08:13 01:02:11:07 into new drops that run on your face 22 01:02:12:10 01:02:14:18 Other drops fall from the sky, 23 01:02:15:04 01:02:17:23 ever faster and stronger 24 01:02:19:17 01:02:22:16 Some of them are to get bound to your wet body 25 01:02:22:21 01:02:25:08 so that later they will dry out in the Sun 26 01:02:26:20 01:02:29:22 It will be the end of its brief existence 27 01:02:30:13 01:02:33:12 The birth and death of a drop 28 01:02:34:01 01:02:36:06 Unless she saves it 29 01:02:36:19 01:02:40:03 by jumping into the freshwater of the river by her side 30 01:02:41:13 01:02:43:14 There it will find refuge 31 01:02:43:19 01:02:46:20 in the same liquid matter of which it's made 32 01:02:48:02 01:02:51:07 It will fuse its body with the body of other drops 33 01:02:51:23 01:02:54:11 forming one grand body of a river 34 01:02:55:17 01:03:00:19 And quite tight like an army marching towards an unlikely war 35 01:03:01:13 01:03:03:19 It will undertake a new trip 36 01:03:04:12 01:03:08:07 From the surface to the bottom, from the bottom to the surface 37 01:03:08:21 01:03:12:07 In the cadence of tides and moon phases 38 01:03:12:22 01:03:15:10 Till the river finds the sea 39 01:03:15:22 01:03:19:00 The dim brown finds the bright green 40 01:03:19:16 01:03:22:22 And it feels the salt particles on its body 41 01:03:23:17 01:03:29:03 And the salty foam will burst into little air bubbles towards the skies 42 01:03:29:16 01:03:33:07 forming then new clouds and new drops 43 01:03:33:22 01:03:36:02 Its destiny depending on the direction of the winds 44 01:03:36:07 01:03:38:03 and the mood of the Gods 45 01:03:39:05 01:03:40:19 Then she thinks: 46 01:03:41:16 01:03:44:01 “Life is a circle” 47 01:15:09:05 01:15:13:01 “You are entering a phase with much action and achievement in your life. 48 01:15:13:06 01:15:17:00 There may be people who will ask you for important things. 49 01:15:17:05 01:15:21:00 Before answering such demands, you must carefully review your position.” 50 01:22:16:07 01:22:21:02 She is 25 and her eyes want to see 51 01:22:22:04 01:22:24:13 She likes cats and gods 52 01:22:25:04 01:22:28:04 Pats on the neck and steak à milanesa 53 01:22:28:23 01:22:30:00 AM radio 54 01:22:30:04 01:22:32:19 and jumping in bed by the morning 55 01:22:34:00 01:22:36:22 Grabbing things with her toes 56 01:22:37:17 01:22:41:08 Flat streets and reunions with old communists 57 01:22:42:21 01:22:45:10 She likes unique words 58 01:22:45:15 01:22:48:20 And to underline phrases in difficult books 59 01:22:49:23 01:22:52:15 To bullshit with her friend Vik 60 01:22:53:00 01:22:55:18 And to bake easter pies 61 01:22:57:01 01:22:58:12 Likes fireplaces, 62 01:22:58:17 01:22:59:18 shadows 63 01:23:00:00 01:23:01:04 and butterflies 64 01:23:02:16 01:23:04:23 She likes street parades 65 01:23:05:04 01:23:07:08 and ancient mythology 66 01:23:08:01 01:23:10:05 Caricatures and cartoons 67 01:23:10:20 01:23:12:23 Operas and zombies 68 01:23:13:20 01:23:15:10 The smell of jasmin 69 01:23:15:15 01:23:17:08 and the texture of a beard 70 01:23:18:16 01:23:20:23 Telling dreams in the morning 71 01:23:21:07 01:23:24:05 Shutting the curtains at daybreak 72 01:23:26:02 01:23:29:03 It feels so good to know a person! 73 01:30:43:01 01:30:47:04 I shot these images while thinking of sprouting 74 01:30:48:13 01:30:50:16 At the Strait of Bosphorus 75 01:30:51:06 01:30:54:16 Part of myself in her Fallopian Tube 76 01:30:55:12 01:30:59:21 Meiosis, mitosis, gamete, zygote 77 01:31:00:16 01:31:06:01 A profusion of chromosomes and DNAs searching for their pairs 78 01:31:06:19 01:31:09:11 Fishing for the color of the eye 79 01:31:09:16 01:31:11:07 For the tapered fingernail 80 01:31:11:12 01:31:12:19 For bunion 81 01:31:13:04 01:31:15:00 For the tendon of Achilles 82 01:31:15:07 01:31:17:09 The quantity of gravity 83 01:31:17:19 01:31:20:05 The quality of gaiety 84 01:31:20:14 01:31:22:09 But not for ethics 85 01:31:22:20 01:31:24:15 Maybe for optics 86 01:31:25:18 01:31:29:05 What to say of that matter one can't fish? 87 01:31:29:16 01:31:32:03 Matter with no memory 88 01:31:32:12 01:31:36:09 Which is precisely the life that fires up! 89 02:06:19:03 02:06:23:04 25 years ago I crossed this Uruguai river 90 02:06:24:12 02:06:27:13 And I wrote a poem about a flower 91 02:06:29:02 02:06:33:06 Maybe she was being born when I was passing by 92 02:06:34:13 02:06:39:12 Her amniotic fluid dripping by the tubes of Montevideo 93 02:06:39:17 02:06:42:04 until reaching the waters of the river 94 02:06:42:09 02:06:44:21 in which my boat passed by 95 02:06:46:06 02:06:47:23 Neither she or I 96 02:06:48:10 02:06:51:20 had imagined that 25 years later 97 02:06:52:03 02:06:54:09 we would be on a porch contemplating 98 02:06:54:14 02:06:57:21 the encounter of these same waters with the sea 99 02:07:00:18 02:07:02:17 Neither she or I 100 02:07:02:22 02:07:07:23 had imagined slipping this way in the spiral of time 101 02:07:08:17 02:07:11:20 For life rounds, rounds, 102 02:07:12:03 02:07:14:13 turns around itself 103 02:07:16:05 02:07:20:07 Otto is the palindrome born of this love 104 02:07:21:21 02:07:26:09 25 years ago, Otto did not exist 105 02:07:27:01 02:07:29:22 But it is as if he existed already 106 02:08:29:22 02:08:39:21 "Being is not more than Non-being"