1492. Among the crew captained by Christopher Columbus, travel three men who should have been dead by now. They have managed to avoid their sad fate by taking part in this uncertain journey, but reaching the Canary Islands they flee, taking one of the ship’s sails with them. Meanwhile, in the “Old World”, a woman tries to save her dying sister by bringing her to a healer. Both of these journeys attempt to laugh at death. Both journeys are at the mercy of time and History.

We have always been seduced by the mystery of the past, because of the universe of possibilities, actions , ideas and experiences, which envisioning it from a contemporary standpoint implies.

The film is set in 1492, a year that represents the beginning of the Western project of global domination, a period which also represents what some theorists point out as the beginning of a new geological era, the so-called Anthropocene. From this date on, witch-hunts, the slave trade and the conquest of America were essential to establish and articulate the modern capitalist system of which we are all descendants.

They Carry Death is a film about mourning, about the death of our loved ones, of our friends, of the image we have of them in our memory. But also of those we never knew, of the ideas and memories that were buried along the way, and that somehow manage to stay alive in us, like an inextinguishable flame.

Samuel M. Delgado y Helena Girón