LOOK AT THE CLOUDS

Experimental, Music Video
United States
2021

3' 22''
Archival Footage
Color and B&W
Sound: Stereo
No Dialogue

Exhibition Formats:
Digital
ProRes 422HQ
1920x1080 (1.33:1 pillar boxed)
24fps

A short archival film composed of family travel footage, public-domain cinema, science films, and nuclear defense reels.

The film explores nostalgia as an invented memory: a desire for places, images, and selves that may never have existed. Built through montage, the work places unrelated fragments into relation until they begin to produce a shared emotional logic.

A film essay in the form of a music video.

Original music by Juan Ernesto Velásquez.

Screenings —

'22 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival; West Virginia University, USA

Credits —

Research / Edit: Camilo Barria
Original Music: Juan Ernesto Velásquez
Recording & Mastering: Pedro Chacón Requena

This film is a transformative experimental work composed from archival and public-domain materials. Its structure explores juxtaposition, montage, and the production of meaning through previously unrelated images.

© Camilo Barria / Machinista LLC. All rights reserved.