THREE WOMEN
Director ALEXIS DELGADO BURDALO
Countries Spain
Duration 29 min
Synopsis
Three Women is an intimate portrait, in the form of a triptych, of three prisoners. We don't need to know in which prison they are held, who these women are, or their names. After a few images and brief testimonies, we come to realize how these women feel, and more importantly, that which these women choose to keep silent. The portrayal explores both the inner worlds of each inmate, and their subjective experiences of the cold world around them. The only free, open, space exposed to them is the sky, paradoxically both unattainable and infinite. Even the reverberating birdsong from the skies above gets trapped as it falls between the echoing prison walls. Nature, lush and mysterious, remains excluded behind these same walls, The personal prison for each woman differs. For one, prison has meant a loss of contact with loved ones. Another admits that prison brought her a kind of salvation, while the third affirns to us that the prison confining her is really not that which we can see with our eyes.
Three Women is an intimate portrait, in the form of a triptych, of three prisoners. We don't need to know in which prison they are held, who these women are, or their names. After a few images and brief testimonies, we come to realize how these women feel, and more importantly, that which these women choose to keep silent. The portrayal explores both the inner worlds of each inmate, and their subjective experiences of the cold world around them. The only free, open, space exposed to them is the sky, paradoxically both unattainable and infinite. Even the reverberating birdsong from the skies above gets trapped as it falls between the echoing prison walls. Nature, lush and mysterious, remains excluded behind these same walls, The personal prison for each woman differs. For one, prison has meant a loss of contact with loved ones. Another admits that prison brought her a kind of salvation, while the third affirns to us that the prison confining her is really not that which we can see with our eyes.