Baltasar Thomas

El Ausente

El Ausente is a short film about a garden that aims to persuade its inhabitants, visitors and onlookers to disengage from thinking about past (events and feelings) and future (desirable states and outcomes) and instead engage with the ever available present.

Its images are accompanied by a voice that speaks seductively amidst a discordant melody of analogous and disparate sounds. The voice and sounds give shape to an ongoing friction between ambition, indecisiveness and acceptance.

‘El Ausente’ (‘The Absent’) – SD-video, 12’35, 2016
Mira
Escucha
El jardin canta
Que canta?

No puedes escuchar?
Tienes algo mejor que hacer?
Seguro

Basta
Basta de buscar
Look
Listen
The garden is singing
What’s it singing?

You can’t listen?
Got something better to do?
Are you sure?

Stop
Stop searching