"In April 2023 I was invited to give a workshop at the San Antonio de los Baños School in Cuba.
I arrived with a Bolex, knowing that for most of the workshop I would want to film, along with the participants, the surroundings and the school itself. It was the fourth year I had been there, so I knew the spaces very well, and especially the rhythm of life and the peculiarities of a space closed to the world, a kind of island within an island.

In my spare time I filmed a long corridor, a fundamental part of the school. All the workers who arrive in the morning on the morning bus enter through this corridor, but it is also a place where students and teachers pass through to the dining room and the school bar. I had always been attracted by its austere architecture, but above all by the constant passage of bodies.

During the first week I kept hearing news about the imminent closing of the school; that could be the last year... A thousand times announced apocalypse. Cuba is that too. An accident put on pause.
So I think that idea of the end, of closing a dream, had a lot to do with the decision to film that space where workers and students walk. The urgency of keeping a memory of a space. (...)