Jazmín López : 2012
Lions
Five young people, aged between 18 and 21 years, suffer a car accident on the highway. Four of the young people die. The youngest, Isabel, survives. Nevertheless, the journey has just begun. None of them is aware of their own death. Deep in the forest the group of five friends wander around like a lion herd. They roam the forest without a fixed course, immersed in their puns and surrounded by a halo of mystery that lies somewhere between life and death, between realism and surrealism. One of the group, Niki, obsessively listens to a tape recorder that's captured the sound of them all travelling somewhere in a car, an event no one can remember but which offers vital clues to their existential situation. Lost in their word games, they play and seduce each other whilst going back and forth into adulthood territory, in a desperate search to avoid their already written story. Jazmín López's mysterious and astonishing Borgesian debut feature premiered in the Orizzonti selection at La Biennale di Venezia 2012.
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