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Foto Novelas: Seeing Through Walls |
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Seeing Through Walls is the first installment of Carlos Avila's Foto-Novelas, a four-part series of original dramas presented by The Independent Television Service (ITVS), inspired by the fantastic elements of the Mexican and Latin American pulp novel tradition, where everyday reality is woven with other world surrealism. This first film is set in a California state prison in the year 2005. The prison is host to a new experimental program, headed by researcher Dr. Teresa Puente (Star Trek: Voyager's Roxann Dawson), designed to "rehabilitate" through the surgical implant of a microchip containing the vast knowledge of the world in the human brain. The prison warden (veteran actor Miguel Sandoval) suggests death-row inmate Gabriel Peņa (John Verea) as the test subject, believing the man innocent, and hoping to save his life. The experiment seems to have no effect, until one night when Peņa awakens from a fevered dream and begins to scribble something on his cell wall -- Van Gogh's "Starry Night," one of thousands of images programmed into Peņa's microchip. From there, he is on fire as he discovers the new knowledge within. But with knowledge comes consequences for Peņa, and for Dr. Puente. Written and directed by Carlos Avila. |
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