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Why did I choose my major?

    My passion for cinema did not come in the most usual way. Most people who study it have a  desire to communicate and express themselves. In my case it was not like that. When I was  a child I wanted to be a physicist, and then in a resounding change, I studied social sciences  and read a lot of philosophy. In this period, I became interested in the mechanisms that allow us to think differently, find vanishing points, allowing events to occur and be able to de-automate  perception. At the same time that I had these concerns, I also began to experiment a lot in a  personal way. I sought to get out of my safe space and explore the world, allowing the world  to speak to me. It was during this period that I fell in love with cinema, as a device of  subjectivation and as a machine for empathy. Cinema is capable of showing other ways of life,  other ways of time, new values, new hierarchies and alongside the actor’s face human  challen...

Who Am I ?

.       Hello, my name is Andrés Larenas Salvador and I´m pisces. I was born in Quillota, but I don't  really feel I belong anywhere because all my life I have wandered from one place to another.  Some time after I was born, we lived in Santiago. When I was three we went to live in Belgium  because my father won a scholarship to do a master's degree in urbanism at Louvain la  Neuve ´s university. My first language was French, although I did a couple of Spanish classes  to be able to handle both languages.   When I was eleven, we returned to Chile. My return to this country was no less chaotic. I went  through four different schools and lived in six houses in different neighborhoods. This  instability also affected my vocation. At school I was in a mathematical elective and I wanted  to be a physicist, however,...