Polvo Serán

The scenes themselves come from different sources: many of them are adaptations of transcriptions of the exercises and improvisations that we did during the devising workshop with the original family. Other scenes have their origin in the research and documentation phase I always do when preparing to write a script. I collect lots of materials from very different sources: talking to people, reading, watching documentaries, music, etc. The most difficult part of the process to me is collecting interesting scenes that go beyond plot points. I dislike plot points, I try instead to collect moments that reveal something about the people and the subjects I’m dealing with. Writing the dialogue to me then comes in a very - 2 - straight forward way, the characters and the situation speak by themselves. It’s almost like doing an improvisation but playing all the roles yourself.

As I grow older, I feel I trust less and less the notion of reality as something objective. However, cinema is the one art that has a unique quality to document people and places... Locations and casting are the most important choices I feel we have as filmmakers to convey feelings and thoughts.

One of the most beautiful things in making this film was to see how transformative it was in many ways for everyone involved.