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TrackerA silent film on paperImaginated and painted byBatán SilvaBased on the screenplay Tracker, by
Neil CohenInspired on the book from 1858, Scènes de la vie militaire au Mexique, by
Gabriel Ferry
Produced by
Bill Pullman
Batán Silva
Neil Cohen
This book, Tracker, is a silent movie on paper. The images were painted by Batán Silva, inspired by Tracker, an original screenplay by Neil Cohen, who in turn was inspired by the stories of Gabriel Ferry, but the final film is the one you direct. This book gives you neither dialogue nor instructions: You are the director. You decide the plot of the story in your head, you assemble the montage, you provide the music, the sound, or the silence. The images only seek to be that magic lantern of cocuyos that only you and Tracker know how to use.
Octavio Paz connected both worlds by noting that the “marvellous” images Breton discovered in Ferry were, in fact, the same essence that Alejo Carpentier termed as “the marvellous real.” For Paz, Ferry is the common foundation: the man whose chronicles allowed Europeans to dream and Latin Americans to recognize ourselves in our own “strangeness.”
“Ferry portrays a world at once strange, picturesque, and visceral: a poetic beauty rooted in the raw and untamed reality of a nation in revolution.”
George Sand
“It was Gabriel Ferry’s tales, that 'magic lantern' which first illuminated my imagination.”
“I am going to Mexico to see if the country of Gabriel Ferry still exists.” “Mexico is the surrealist country par excellence.”
André Breton |
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