Arche

The story of a ghost who is unable to leave behind the suffering he experienced in life and, in order to go to the afterlife, has to learn to overcome it while dealing with the fact of having to live with the statues of those who tortured him and caused him misery. "Arche" is a story that speaks of how the wounds of the past, marked by oppression and war, remain alive through structures that serve to perpetuate hateful ideas whose sole purpose is to remind us how some attacked individual freedom to gain more power at the cost of countless lives through a meditative and leisurely staging with transmedia elements, inpired by filmakers like Michael Haneke and Gus Van Sant (filmakers that would rather let the camera and the framing tell the story instead of the diaologue), that allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the narrative and absorb its themes more naturally. To look toward a different future where we leave behind the traumas of the past, we must, like the ghost of history, accept those mistakes, because otherwise we are condemned to repeat them, creating a cycle of violence and hatred that will always return to eliminate life and love. To see the good in life, one must see the bad; only then can one truly appreciate the beauty of the world. This is Joaquin Sosa's first time directing a short film, which has given him the confidence to continue exploring the art of filmmaking.