Flores que brotan entre antiguas piedras
(Blooming Flowers Among the Ancient Stones) 2022
Starring: Carmen Serratos Chavarría Rocío Rebollo Vázquez Khiabet Morales
Director & Cinematographer: César Iván Ortiz López Producers: Liz Hernández, César Iván Ortiz López Production Assistant: Jesús Guerra
With the death and fall of a flower, a supernatural entity is summoned. As she wanders through the streets and palaces of an ancient land’s past, she begins asking questions.
Blooming Flowers Among the Ancient Stones is a short film directed by César Iván Ortiz López and produced in collaboration with Liz Hernández. It is a story parallel to the legend of Las Jacarandas, in which one of the Jacaranda spirits is summoned by the death of a flower. As she roams through the ancient streets and palaces of Mexico City, she interviews its inhabitants, hoping to understand her new reality.