16'  Spanish Uruguay

t’s strange to sneak into other people’s houses at night and film them while they sleep, or to take family portraits and return them days later without anyone noticing. It’s strange not to have friends your own age, to spend your time with much younger kids and film them doing things no one understands.

Holding a fluid conversation with a GRANDMOTHER (91) who [...]

t’s strange to sneak into other people’s houses at night and film them while they sleep, or to take family portraits and return them days later without anyone noticing. It’s strange not to have friends your own age, to spend your time with much younger kids and film them doing things no one understands.

Holding a fluid conversation with a GRANDMOTHER (91) who can barely mumble is strange. So is the fact that no one knows your first name, where you came from, or when you arrived.

That’s BICHO. One eye is enough for him to observe the world through the viewfinder of his handycam. He’s the village gardener everyone thinks they know—without realizing he knows them better than anyone.

Category:  Fiction 

Genre:  Drama