​CIELO ABIERTO / MAR ABIERTO / SUELO ABIERTO (OPEN SKY / OPEN SEA / OPEN GROUND)
​Super 8mm, 4:00, 2021, ECUADOR
Co-dirigido con Martín Baus

Desde un punto de vista-escucha animal y elemental, entre el aire, el océano y la arena,
se despliegan relaciones entre el humano, las aves y los peces.

From a point of view/listening that is both animal and elemental, between the air,
​the ocean and the sand, relationships emerge between humans, birds and marine life. 

FESTIVALS
Prismatic Ground 2022 (UNITED STATES)
VI Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida 2021 (ECUADOR)
Pan-Cinema Experimental Festival Internacional de Curitiba (BRASIL)
Open City Documentary Film Festival (UK)
Festival Juan Downey - Programa Alterno (CHILE)
CORRIENTE Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine de No-Ficción (PERÚ)
Festival de Cine Etnográfico de Ecuador (EC)


ARTICLES
Prismatic Ground Year Two: Documentary Waves - FILMMAKER MAGAZINE (James Hansen)

"...Libertad Gills and Martin Baus’s open sky / open sea / open ground achieves maximum effect by reorienting visual and sonic expectations of space. Using distinctive blue and red filters on rapidly edited shots of sky and sea, the film’s chaotic presentation whizzes through space, adopting a subjective bird’s-eye view of a topsy-turvy world. Enhanced by a jarring soundtrack of harsh whips of air and underwater gurgles, the film unsettles representational expectations and coordinates a unique terrain for human-animal relationships."

THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS I SAW IN 2022 - Michael Sicinski

"A potent miniature that considers the natural environment and humans’ place within it, this film by Baus (who also worked on Alexandra Cuesta’s Lungta) and Gills takes its coastal images and saturates them in a hazy sky blue, formally uniting the film’s three distinct ingredients."

"This delicate Super-8 film is defiantly small, but its impact is considerable." LETTERBOXD.COM
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ALSO:
Highlighted by Occitane Lacurie,  "Prismatic Ground, 2022", Débordements, May 2022. 


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