"Girona, 8th of August, 2008." "WAKING UP SLOWLY" "Dear Naomi," "I don't know if you remember me." "I'm writing to you from the balcony." "It's too hot to be indoors." "We've only met once." "We spoke for five minutes, six months ago." "Since then I've been travelling, a long way from home." "I filmed these images the day after I met you." "We were on a boat headed for Fuerteventura." "You have to listen to boats" " not for safety reasons" "(all boats will sink if they wish to do so) - but to discover the music of the voyage." "Ours was a diatonic boat." "Very contemporary." "If I knew you better," "I wouldn't be telling you this." "I will only hint at it because you don't know who we are." "We were running away." "I won't tell you what from." "Only that in these situations you have to go far away," "until you reach a desert where no one can find you." "For the past six months we've travelled to invisible places." "We travelled on and on:" "Australia, China, South America..." "When we reached the Russian border, we heard the story of a man who lived right on the border." "Half of his house was in Russia, and the other half was in Poland." "When people asked him where he lived he always replied: "In Poland"." ""It's warmer"." "Now we're back home." "The only place I never film." "Once, I made an invisible film." "Nobody has seen it," "I haven't even finished it." "In fact, it's not really a film but a lucky charm, to keep me from losing her." "Like every August," "I find it hard to get to sleep and she finds it hard to wake up." "I'm taking the opportunity to write to you." "It's always hotter in the Polish half of the house." "I don't believe that dreams can predict the future." "And I have misgivings about the writing of dreams." "Although every night dreams are etched onto her skin." "I'm still writing to you from the balcony." "We suggested writing to each other from our homes to start getting to know each another." "But now it's easier to know things that are far away than those that are near." "I know you're going to visit soon." "Maybe then, if we meet on our own, and we get to know each other better - but not too much, just enough so we won't delude ourselves -," "I'll be able to tell you the rest of the story of the past six months." "There's really not a lot to it:" "sometimes, we weren't even there." "Light exists because of darkness." "Time creates light." "One light cancels the other." "Darkness falls on my homeland." "The wind blows through my homeland." "Prayers are always offered in my homeland." "His name is 'light'." "My blood runs through his veins." "His father's name is 'big-light'." "They brought light into my life." "Prayers are always offered in my homeland." "I can't exist without them... as a particle of this wonderful world." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you for having come into this world!" "Dear Naomi," "Yesterday I went back to the town where I grew up." "My grandparents are buried here and so is one of my best friends." "I didn't go to visit their graves." "They taught me how to pray but later I forgot how to do it." "In a country like this it's easy to believe in everything or in nothing." "This is the museum where I was educated." "We used to come here on excursions." "There was no art museum, so we learned to draw from the bodies mummified by the famous" "19th-century taxidermist Francesc Darder." "In 1990, the museum was refurbished and most of my memories now slumber in the storeroom or in the archives." "Here is where I learnt the art of disguising myself in order to survive and the names of bizarre animals that I have recently seen alive." "This lion attacked Darder and his dog saved him." "Darder had them both stuffed and now they stand side by side." "This is how we learned the meaning of heroism and all its consequences." "Darder's most famous exhibit was the stuffed body of a black man:" "a bushman, who was the first black man we had ever seen in the village." "When I was a child, bodies from all over the world were displayed around him." "In 1992 the Olympic Games were held in Barcelona and people complained that the display of the black man was racist." "During the drawn-out controversy, nobody bothered about the mummies, foetuses, or preserved skins of other races." "The "Negro of Banyoles"" "was buried in Botswana, in the midst of a great drought." "The museum decided to close the human specimen gallery and to keep all the exhibits in the storerooms." "In fact, it was here that I first saw a Japanese person." "And I remember another foreigner, associated with a kind of love story:" "during the Civil War, a German pilot performed acrobatics over the lake to seduce an enemy girl." "The plane crashed into the lake." "When I was a child, they found the wreckage and people say that the altimeter read zero metres and that the clock inside the plane had stopped at the exact time of impact." "Nobody knows anything about the girl." "If you visit, I promise to show you the secrets of the lake." "In a place like this it's easy to believe in nothing or in everything." "THE WORLD AROUND ME" "You are beautiful." "Good morning." "You don't let me sleep." "Can you see me?" "I'm getting ready for tomorrow." "This will be over tomorrow." "And I will move on to the next stage." "I will do my best." "Please, don't be so hard on me." "Shall I do it again?" "You show your boobs a lot, don't you?" "What can I say...?" "I should have something to say..." "Answer my e-mails, won't you?" "Hello." "Now you've got a nice office with a great team." "You always work hard." "How embarrassing!" "I don't know what to say." "I hope more and more people find out what you're really like." "That's what I want." "That's all." "I'd never met anybody like you before." "Your lifestyle is quite different from mine." "You are like a daughter or a sister to me." "And your son Mitsuki is like my own grandson." "I am always happy to see him, and play with him as though I were a child." "I always have a great time with him." "Thank you." "I am here surrounded by my friends." "Mummy." "Mummy." "I love you." "I love you." "Mummy." "I love you very much." "Don't copy my words." "Good morning, my dear Naomi." "I will try to have another good day." "At Midnight" "I am here, alone." "It's raining." "Where are you now?" "I'm here." "Dear Naomi," "I've already received the footage that we flamed" "when you came to Banyoles." "It was all badly exposed!" "I'm trying to identify which are your shots and which are mine." "For the first time, I'm afraid our styles are very similar." "A lake." "your son running around the lake." "Or a striped tiger." "You and me, dancing flamenco." "Or at least trying to." "Without a doubt:" "Isa." "And my bro' Diego." "Me, swimming naked." "Diego, chasing a lion." "The tomb of my best friend." "And my grandparents' grave." "A downpour." "A cloud shaped like a hippopotamus." "Clouds like flaming giraffes." "A cloud like a normal-boring-cloud." "A deep kiss." "And lots of kisses for you." "WHAT HE REMEMBERS" "Good night, see you later." "P.S. From VERY FAR AWAY:" "FAREWELL SONG" "Dear Naomi," "As I told you, I never film at home." "All these letters have been a nice break." "Now, I'm on the road again, preparing a new movie." "Today, it has been raining." "The first rain of the season." "And I would like to show you the children chasing the flying ants that come out after the rain." "Just this:" "flying ants after the rain and a strange white man with a camera." "As a farewell song" "I would also like to send you an old film by Segundo de Chomón." "I've edited the film with music by your friends" "The Pascals, playing a song by my beloved Pascal Comelade."