LA PIEL EN PRIMAVERA (Skin in Spring) was born from a spontaneous observation exercise on the streets of Medellín. A furtive encounter between a passerby and a bus driver became the trigger for the film. Speculating about a possible romance in the city was the premise that guided the writing process and the exploration of female desire in an urban environment, the imprint of the mise-en-scène.
As a creator, it is fundamental for me to give voice to female characters who face internal fears, who propose an alternative path to what is socially and culturally established. I am interested in questioning feminine desire as a subject that has been silenced and made invisible in our societies because we as women have been taught to feel guilty about it, leading us to deny and hide it. And this is where my question about pleasure, the true enjoyment of the body, arises, because although women are seen as sex symbols, we are not taught to enjoy sex as men do, and the female body ends up being a body to please others and nothing else.
I am interested in drawing on the subtlety of looks and silences to enter into the lives of the characters and to contribute to the tale of a counter-history that is focused on society’s minimalist expressions; I believe that it is in the small everyday acts where you can really start to create an awareness of what we have culturally constructed as feminine.
Yennifer Uribe Alzate
