We have mirrors instead of eyes

We're at a workshop at the Goethe Institue in Mexico City, centring on the idea of creating a short film with a mobile phone, and I'm one of the students. The date could be today or last week or even 10 years ago, but as it happens it's taking place over these days. We don't specifically examine the actual technology of making films using mobile phones or stuff like that. Instead, we focus on the old question of storytelling, and the first week, we spend a routine eight hours a day developing ideas, writing, and discussing scripts, point of view and the different things that motivate us to tell a story. Slowly and painfully we come to understand and accept that the thing we so obsessively wanted to talk about and to which we still cling is simply not a story.