Jorge Jacko

Through this documentary work, we gain access to the creative intimacy of José Castillo, unequivocally one of the forerunners of animated cinema in Venezuela. With its original and poetic artisan style, it overcomes the frontiers of conventional filmmaking, to build a unique, original and unforgettable work.

Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.

Fulgencio Martinez wants a car to give a good image to the president of the company where he works and thus get a promotion. Carmina, his wife, suffers from a fatal illness and the only way to flatter her life is with an operation. Martinez tries to kill her so as not to spend the money from his savings on the clinic and buy the car. In the end, after a dream that makes him feel the loss of his wife, he abandons his plans.

María Eugenia Alonso, almost a woman, still an adolescent, returns from Europe to impose the light of her reason on that of her old house, a temple of boredom, where, as in the ancient and moist churches, the old smell of traditions and race floats.

The obsession of The Mother for The Negro causes her sick relationship with The Daughter. Mother and daughter perform a daily routine of rites to conjure The Negro's soul. It pushes them into the dolorous tragedy which will consume them.