The pit is the pretext… what you find is life itself.
A Mexican legend says the devil demands souls so that bridges, once built, won't fall. En el hoyo follows several laborers during the construction of the second deck of Mexico City's Periférico freeway.
The monumental project is a pretext to come close to the daily life, the dreams and the dignity of those who raise it: humor, romance, danger and small moments suspended between concrete, steel and traffic.
“A profoundly human, moving portrait of an invisible Mexico.”— Guillermo del Toro
I like to wander where no one is looking. Construction was changing the face of Mexico City; it had to be recorded from the place of those who work day and night, almost always beneath the indifference of those who pass by.
Juan Carlos Rulfo was born in Mexico City in 1964. He studied Communication Sciences at the UAM and Film Direction at the CCC. En el hoyo is his second feature documentary.
The crew and the site during filming. Photographs: Ana Lorena Ochoa.
Produced by La Media Luna Producciones. In co-production with FOPROCINE and IMCINE. With support from the Sundance Institute, John Simon Guggenheim Fund, New Art Group and the Government of Mexico City.
