Ways of going Back

In Ways of going home, even more impressed by the colossal amount of people than by the indomitable force of nature, Khamis takes a contemplative look down to the ships that bring tourists closer to the Niagara Falls. Presented on a split screen, we see on each side extremely zoomed-in, almost abstract images of visitors agglomerated on the deck of the ferries, uniformed in blue and red plastic raincoats. Based on text fragments of the homonymous novel by chilean poet and writer Alejandro Zambra, Khamis subtitles the wordless sounds with childhood notions of getting lost and feeling home, placing us somewhere between memory and dream.