Eternal Presence

He was a night writer, daytime journalist, father, husband, and dear friend not only of the literary and artistic world of Mexico, his native country, but of the entire world. This is how this short documentary, directed by Miguel Ángel Nieto, traces the Portraitof José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014), poet, translator, narrator, columnist, essayist, and writer of children's literature who, among many other international awards, received the Cervantes Prize and the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry in 2009.

The documentary rescues a magnificent sketch for children written by his daughter, Laura Emilia, as well as fragments of the voice of this tireless creator, photographs, and archive images and words from some of his public interventions appearances. With the participation of the artist Tomás Lozano, "Eternal Presence" puts music to Pacheco’s most outstanding poems and recreates with suggestive filmic lyrics references to time, death, and the tiny but decisive things that caught the writer's attention, such as snowflakes or the simple trickling of drops of water on ivy.