Grandma, I'm going to Space 2019

Grandma, I'm going to Space 2019

Jose Garcia
Works in alliance with the image festival

In the video, Grandma, I'm Going to Space, I tell my grandmother that I'm going to space and her reaction is authentic. I knew that her ability to believe was due to unique and special circumstances. My goal was to imagine maybe in 200 years what conversations with family members about interstellar travel might be like. It's a conversation to represent the time when the wonder of space travel will be accessible to many more people.
In the Solar Eclipse video, we toured the streets of my family's town with a car-pipe announcement system to share with people that in 7 years there would be a solar eclipse over Colombia. It is an impractical but at the same time poetic gesture to announce the eclipse years in advance because this is a celestial event that occurs very rarely in the life of a human being. It is a game that we started with the townspeople and their reactions are interesting. In a few years we will return to the town to continue the preparations for the solar eclipse.