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Stroking an animal

A film by Ángel Filgueira

1. SUMMER

Dragonflies are born in water

they live near rivers and lakes, and fly heaps of kms chasing rain.

But they can't swim.

If they wet their wings, the weight of the water is superior to their strength.

They sink.

"Dragon-fly", the name is great.

Look what a beautiful mermaid.

Yeah

Hold on tight

one, two...

ready?

Here, right?

Yes

See you.

Bye!

Wait...

Do you mind if I use your bathroom?

Come.

Goodbye!

Bye!

Hey, ready?

Yeah, come on, let's go.

They’ve got such cute kitties…

They’ve got a gray one with a tail like this,

and then an orange one

so furry

that turns around and does this...

I want kitties too…

So cute.

But you remembered to pee, right?

Yeah, I remembered to pee.

Good.

2. AUTUMN

Do you know the story of the spoon? A trick to have a lucid dream.

It's said that you have to go to sleep with a spoon in your hand.

And when you fall sleep, the spoon falls on the floor.

And you wake up.

And you remember the dream you had.

Look, look...

It's you!

Ey, how are you?

You are on fire!

Of course.

How is your life?

Let's order something to drink.

What the fuck, Tomás!

Let´s see…

What are you doing?

Covering him.

Come

Are you comfortable?

I’m getting settled...

Like this

Are you okay?

Good morning

More, more...

What?

I don’t remember anything...

3. STILL AUTUMN

THE TRIP

You scared me!

What are you doing?

Measuring your ears.

You’ve got small ones.

They aren't so small.

Yes

Santa Tegra, you asked about earlier,

is more over there...

Near A Guarda.

I think so.

I’ve never been there before.

Well, it’s very beautiful.

It's nice

The monastery, look

Do you see?

Whoa, it's really beautiful.

It’s almost impossible to solve,

even writing it down.

I didn’t solve it.

My brother solved it on his first try.

He’s fucking smart.

Here.

I have

over here.

Here you have a lot of them

And over here on top, look

I’ve always had them, since I was a child.

No, no.

Make a birdie face for me.

How do seagulls sound?

I don’t know how to make the sound

Intense girl

I’m thinking about how a seagull sound

Look at the camera!

Why?

It’s really bright, Mariña

I don't know.

Definitely I don’t know

Such a sharp bend! If another car comes...

It’s amazing to see your face in the camera

Look,

a crab with a white hood

If I had a house,

I would like to paint it orange

Who’s that?

Who’s that?

If you stay there, I’ve got two Adas.

You’ve got two Adas?

There, stay still there...

Where they are?

There, stop.

No, a little more to the...

There

And how many Tomases?

There’s only one Tomás

Hello, Tomás!

Hello, Mariña!

Mariña?

Tomás?

That is Tomás and that it's me

In the end, the Minor Arcana,

what they describe are really situational circumstances

And the Major Arcana are archetypes

And they tell a story

And that story has different phases

And you go on reorganizing that story

as if taking a tale and dividing it

and it tells different stories

I don’t know.

These work. These are all Major Arcana

All of them are Major Arcana?

These, these

There’s only six

No, there aren't six.

You’re going to get your ass kicked...

See?

It’s easy to understand

Yeah, I’m understanding everything.

And this one?

This in the material world,

and then what happens when you transcend

This is the worst card you can get, "by the way"

"Uh la!"

"Uh la" no, it's true

"Uh la, uh la"!

People always think it’s death, but that's a lie.

Death is always a positive change,

this card is an absolutely destructive change

Read him the cards!

Should I?

Don't throw the cards on his face, read him the cards.

Okay, so ask...

How will be my relation with…

my relation with the world

My life

Any doubts?

Ready? Should I wait for you or I start?

Go

Ok.

This is you

Yes.

This one in the center

This is you in the past

This is you now

This is going to be you in a few

days, months...

Ah, this is my future?

Near future.

Your behavior, your environment,

a conflict and a result.

Ok, let’s start at the beginning:

these four describe

your situation as if from the past to the future.

And these are the things that are happening

around you from your context and your behavior.

Let’s start with you.

Right now you are represented by the Moon.

So your path is illuminated.

This is a path with a conlict right now

between your most wild side, which is represented by the wolf,

and your more docile side, which is represented by the dog.

So those two parts face each other in conflict.

And there are many faces of you...

What?

Stop.

Nothing.

Can I continue?

Yes.

There are two parts of yourself in conflict,

so you have to balance them

to be able to continue that path.

What you hide

must be made present

to come to terms with yourself.

Where does this all come from?

Because you were so distracted here,

you didn’t see that there was no path here....

Right!

I see you.

No, like this I’m taking longer,

because I can’t concentrate.

If you’re laughing and "piquipiquipiqui"

I can’t concentrate.

Ok? These things are difficult to explain.

What happened? You didn’t see that there was a cliff here.

You fell in the ravine.

That’s curious because the other day

I was about to fall in a ravine.

Can I continue or not?

Yes, go on.

In this fall you lost something

very important to you in an emotional level.

Possibly someone close…

a partner… a family member… an intimate friend…

And you had to process all that pain.

Yes. You’re getting it right now.

But it’s statistics.

But yeah, continue, you’re getting some right, of course.

Well, then that’s it.

Well, listen...

No, if you ask me something...

We are here chill,

read us the cards.

No, that's it.

Don’t kill the mood, we were fine

It wasn’t making me feel fine.

It’s not like that, don’t get mad.

I’m not mad, but I’m trying to do something serious

and you’re not letting me.

Because you are "jajaja"

and I don't see the funny part.

Don’t be spoiled, come on.

You don’t feel like what?

No, stop!

Can you help me?

No, no!

Stop you two!

So I turn around.

Right, turn around…

See, look...

This says straight.

Oh, really?

Hey, long time no see!

It just get me the creeps

because it looks like something is going to come out.

Hello?

But what are you going to see with that flashlight,

if there’s more sun than anything else.

No, that's it. Hello?

But it’s all dark.

Shure it's all dark.

4. WINTER

They called me "Mariña" ("Marine") to give me the strength of the sea.

But with the name and the strength,

came also the weight of all that body of water.

I read that cats bite when they can't contain the love that they feel inside.

You don’t smell like anything.

And you?

No, you neither.

Maybe we just smell the same.

What are you doing, idiot?

5. SPRING

How is a house built? Come, we’re going to add soil and plant stones.

You’ll see they won’t move with the wind. Water is going to filter between the holes when it rains,

and moss will grow us on top. But the stones will always hold us.

Hi, beautiful. Good morning.

Look, dont be obfuscated.

When I start to write, I do the same.

I really want to have that cofee with you.

So...

Ada will arrive around two.

I'll call you after we eat.

Is it good for you? And then you tell me.

See you.

Hello.

Can we talk for a moment?

Yes, what's wrong?

Are you ok?

I was just talking with Tomás.

I met with him because I wanted to clear things up,

but we ended up sleeping together again.

I'm sorry.

What? What do you want?

I don't understand.

Honestly, I wish...

I wish I could understand what you want.

I wish I could do what you want.

But I can't, I'm tired, Ada.

I am super tired.

Of you and your...

shit.

Let me go.

No. Calm down.

Ada, I don’t need to calm down.

Let me go!

Ada, let me go!

Please...

6. SUMMER AGAIN

As a girl, I used to play with the seaweed at the beach with my friends.

We put the seaweed on our heads, as it were our long hair

or we covered our whole body with it.

Right now seaweed makes me a little disgusted, but I still liked it.

Your mother took you to an exorcist?

Not to an exorcist. To a medicine man!

He had a sword like the one of Gryffindor.

Gabi, did your mother take you to an exorcist?

He wasn't an exorcist.

He was.

I visualize Gabi tied to a bed...

That's what you want with Gabi.

Hi!

How are you?

Very good.

What’s up!? How are you?

Hi, I'm Pepe!

She is Ada.

Nice to meet you.

Me too.

We’re going to set up the tent, okay?

Where do we put it?

Over there is fine.

There’s a spot over there.

You know, Sarai...

that "Jurassic Park" is a documentary.

This way.

Wait, wait...

Can you get me two pegs there?

Yes!

..and I don’t know what they planted there.

The one with the boy on the island.

Ah, that's a nice film.

A nice film?

The one with the spinosaurus!

That's the dinosaur of the movie.

The "spinosaurus", the one with the sail.

Fuck, Sarai! The one with the sail!

Didn't you learn that in biology?

Horrible.

I left some space.

Well, wait.

Should I put it like this so you can sit too?

We fit?

Ey, look closely at these cards.

Let’s see.

They aren't mine, eh.

But whose cards are these then?

Are they yours?

Dear God...

Come on! Let's start.

Let's see how these mushrooms taste.

Split it, please.

The one who split it, takes the bigger part. Right?

Take it, Gabi.

Fuck, they taste awful

If you take it, I take it.

Such a strange taste.

Like a mix of dust and flour.

What are you doing, crazy? The sea is gonna take it!

Supposedly, I am in the living room now?

No, now we are all in the bedroom of Tomás.

All together in this room?

Yes.

You are turning darker.

Come on, faster!

I can't.

You are sure you don't?

Sure.

Well, you know best.

I remember the first time you took me to your house,

and we showered together with that boiling water that turned red our skin.

I drove past your house with my car recently.

I think I saw you there.

I was going to stop to say "hi" but I kept going.