AZUL

Some lights turn on before they even have a name, and go out before they have had time to be. AZUL is an aquatic poem about what remains when the light goes out and words fade away: the ash of that light, the memory of a heartbeat, the perpetual presence of this absence. What becomes of tears when we cry underwater?

Pablo Diconca is a Uruguayan filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Quebec, Canada. Working at the intersection of dance and cinema, he creates fiction films, documentaries, dance films and hybrid works that explore themes of belonging, memory, transmission and territory. Since his first short film, Sauf Julia (1997), he has directed more than twenty films screened internationally and broadcast on networks including Canal+ France, ARTV and Bravo!. His acclaimed dance film Abismo (2016) received more than twenty international awards and became one of the most awarded dance films of its time. His feature documentary To My Father (2024), co-directed with his son León Diconca, has screened at more than fifty international festivals and received numerous awards in Europe and the Americas. Drawing inspiration from contemporary dance, literature and auteur cinema, Diconca's work often explores the relationship between bodies and landscapes, with water, fire and natural environments recurring throughout his visual language. He is currently starting the distribution of his new dance film titled Azul and developing Icarus and Thalassa, a new dance film inspired by myth.