Les Brigittines

Having always been fascinated by Tarzan, stories of exploration and remote landscapes, Carlos Casas has created an immersive cinematographic work that starts from the discovery of otherwise impenetrable natural environments. In Sanctuary, he plunges us into the darkness of the jungle en route for the elephants’ graveyard, the final resting place for those who sense the end of their life approaching. A place of refuge for a disappearing species, and a path perhaps towards reincarnation… Somewhere between expanded cinema, a documentary and a sound installation, Sanctuary composes an environment out of images and (infra-)sounds recorded in the field by Carlos Casas and Chris Watson, a pioneer in field recording. The work invites us to go beyond our own cognitive and sensorial limits and lose ourselves to an extremely moving experience.

Sanctuary is an exhortation to leave behind our viewpoints as humans always out to win and to imagine our own sanctuaries. Visionary.