The Wind Knows That I’m Coming Back Home
Art of the Real 2017
April 20 - May 2, 2017
A filmmaker prepares to shoot his first fiction film, about the real-life disappearance of two lovers in the woods of Chile’s remote Meulín Island in the early 1980s.
In the early 1980s, a couple vanished without a trace in the woods of Meulín Island. Director Ignacio Agüero (This Is the Way I Like It II) had intended to shoot a documentary about this strange occurrence, but eventually abandoned the project. Now, he journeys to the area to shoot his first fiction film based on the events, and José Luis Torre Leiva follows Agüero as he speaks with locals about the legends that have arisen surrounding this mysterious occurrence in between scouting for locations and auditioning nonprofessionals, who often provide a source of tender comic relief. The film is also a meditation on the isolation of those living on Chile’s Chiloé Archipelago, capturing its unique and solitary landscapes.
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