This next video has been possible thanks to the help of community members in twitter spaces. Its an extract of the short documentary Who is Piscis el cantante? 

On my first album Caracoles by Kanaku y el Tigre, I was able to explore my creativity together with my bandmates in a free and uninhibited way. A record that was made in a bedroom, between two people with only one microphone, which went around the world and allowed me to make many more records.  

Generally, filmmaking requires large teams of people and millions of dollars that result in rigid parameters and molds.  In my experience, when resources are limited, I have found myself in the richest positions for my creativity. That's why I want to make films the way I like to work in music, building on layers and improvisation. Because it has forced me to make the most of the few tools I have and stick to the essentials. Like David and Goliath. To use my limitations as advantages. 

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One of the most essential things making albums has taught me is the importance of the unconscious when creating. When they put a camera on us the first thing we do is to show the best we have, we opt for our best angle, our best words, our best version of ourselves, and so we also hide ourselves.  The same thing happens with the mind. Over time I have learned that to bring out the unconscious one must trick the mind.

This is why I am taking as a reference Salvador Dalí’s method of creating from paranoia. The aspect that Dalí found interesting in paranoia was the state the mind is put on when doing the effort of perceiving links between things that have no apparent connection. I think it is precisely in the exercise of trying to make sense of the pieces that the unconscious speaks, and I think that is what is so powerful about Dalí's method. This is what I mean when I talk about fooling the mind. Forgetting the right and the best. The challenge of making sense of meaninglessness forces me to take unexpected paths in my psyche and brings out what I truly have to offer as an artist. My deepest feelings and thoughts. The ones that many times get swallowed by one's self image or rational agenda.

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I think this is a very interesting starting point, not only for me, but also for other people who are interested in creating in this way. I think we often think that in order to find a story worth telling we have to go through a long search full of revisions and high demands. But perhaps, if we delve into our unconscious we might all be surprised at what we can find.

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Nico Saba.