Pozo

Crude secrets about the Cantarell oil field, Mexico’s most prolific offshore oil reserve, are portrayed in reverse in the visionary documentary Pozo. The mysteries of the bastard family of the fisherman who discovered the country’s greatest energy treasure are accompanied in chorus by the intrigues, apparitions and petrosexoracial traumas of the inhabitants of Ciudad del Carmen, an island radically transformed by the voracious hydrocarbon industry. The chants of the gods of darkness, of crude oil and of the end of time, accompany and guide this return to the eternal source of emptiness.

This invocation does not count the facts from the end to the beginning, but undoes them, diminishes them, de-refines them, decreases them, deconsumes them, de-extinguishes them.

My aunts tell me that one of our ancestors discovered the country’s most prized energetic inheritance: the largest offshore oil field on the planet.

From a simple shrimp fisherman to a hero who filled the nation with hope.

In the end, the only abundance he left behind was the largest debt on the planet.

This is a story of a mysterious secret. It is a story about that which cannot be known, That which must not be spoken.

It’s like those family secrets that everyone knows but no one talks about, like an addiction, a rape, illegitimacy, or a debt. It’s like those State secrets that everyone knows but no one talks about, like fraud, dispossession, forgery, or a debt.

And since all of this cannot be told, It can only be embodied

Direction, script, photography, and editing: Diana Cantarey
Music and voices of Abkatún: Ana Cristina Pérez Ochoa
Sound: Andrés González (AASSP)
Animation: Mariana Peralta
Infrared photography: EYEAYAY Science Outreach
VFX: Martha Maya

With the support of the System of Supports for Creation and Cultural Projects

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