Synopsis

Filmed in Cuba and directed by Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Inmanencia is a poetic sensory ecologically and spiritually charged artwork that slowly unfolds in a series of  cinematic moments that reveal the divine in our ordinary experience.

"A therapeutic experience. The visuals and sound-designing are hypnotic. It soothes and cleanses the mind and soul."

-- Druk International Film Festival of Bhutan, winner Audience Choice Award 2019.

"Meditative & visually stunning."

-- Thomas Edison Black Maria FIlm Festival, finalist, 2019.

We know that we love nature and yet we are not able to feel the drama of an Amazon in flames or of the funeral of an iceberg.

What does it look like to re-sensitize ourselves to the depth of that love?  What does it mean to heighten our experience of the divine in everyday nature?

Each deliberate phase of the film mediates an environment that breathes with elemental sounds, earth tones and a sense of divinity permeating the everyday. A heavy downpour in Havana slows our breath and reminds us to be present to the wet earth and gurgling water; a church bell tolls in a canopy above the city, overlooking a river, as we slowly become aware of the sound of  water and the presence of birds––living souls of the city; a misted tropical forest hums and brims with life, framed by Carribean-influenced music; a field being plowed by oxen at dawn reminds us of our deep connection to life-giving sustaining earth as the sound of the tilling intimately resonates, in the creak of harness, the whisper of soil, and the exhale of a bullock. 

Where are we going? What do we want--for ourselves, and for the world around us? What is happening to our beautiful, precious planet, before our very eyes? Filling audiences with remembrance and love for earth’s nourishing richness, soundscapes, innate variance, beauty and sacredness, Inmanencia brings us home to ourselves and home to nature ––even in a city street.