SICKLAND
Director ALEJANDRA MÁRQUEZ ABELLA
Countries Mexico
Duration 76 min
Synopsis
Land Sick centers on several characters: three sailors from Veracruz, three flight attendants based in MX City, and three truck drivers from Ixtapaluca, Estado de MX. You could say that Land Sick is a documentary about their lives, their families and their travels. But It also has to do with a classical subject: the impossible quest for the way back home, the urgent need for a pause, a moment of absence and the sheer fact that in order to come back one first has to leave. The social, environmental, gender and even age differences between the characters is evident. Even so, their discourses seem to share something. They seem to share a way of being. As if they were some kind of great character. Some Frankenstein cobbled together out of pieces of Laura, Lizette, Linda, Enrique, Cigarrin, Ricardo, Andres, Wolf and Chavez. Land Sick is all about movement, instability and motion sickness.
Land Sick centers on several characters: three sailors from Veracruz, three flight attendants based in MX City, and three truck drivers from Ixtapaluca, Estado de MX. You could say that Land Sick is a documentary about their lives, their families and their travels. But It also has to do with a classical subject: the impossible quest for the way back home, the urgent need for a pause, a moment of absence and the sheer fact that in order to come back one first has to leave. The social, environmental, gender and even age differences between the characters is evident. Even so, their discourses seem to share something. They seem to share a way of being. As if they were some kind of great character. Some Frankenstein cobbled together out of pieces of Laura, Lizette, Linda, Enrique, Cigarrin, Ricardo, Andres, Wolf and Chavez. Land Sick is all about movement, instability and motion sickness.