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Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. Through episodes in which the line between reality and fantasy fades, these characters travel both the celestial and terrestrial with a single objective: dying to generate life. The obsessive impulse to fall to fertilize takes place between a scientific narrative and myths of Mesoamerican origin that intertwine the actions aroused by more than a force of gravity, leading to poetic and visually suggestive lapses. This docufiction work opens a dialogue of coexistence between life and death that fuses the representation of a natural phenomenon with a millenary rite through an altered reality.

Mauricio Sáenz (b. 1977, Matamoros, Mexico) is a visual artist and filmmaker with a practice between experimental and docufiction. Meteorito, his first film, is a short that opens a dialogue of coexistence between life and death by fusing the representation of a natural phenomenon with a millenary rite through an altered reality. He obtained a master?s degree in artistic production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain and has exhibited his audiovisual work in festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Stuttgarter Filmwinter and European Media Art Festival in Germany where he was also nominated for the Dialogpreis of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was recently nominated for the LOOP Discover Award in Barcelona for outstanding international video artists.