As a child, Victor Garcia Rodríguez saw himself conducting an orchestra on the big screen
Víctor García Rodríguez (right) audio engineer, and Ramón Ramírez, director of photography, with the poster for the film Agua de Arrayán
Jazmín Stengel(Chapala).- The 30-year-old composer Víctor Ignacio García Rodríguez beat cancer in 2019. One year later, life gave him the gift of fulfilling his childhood dream: to score a movie.
García Rodríguez wrote the music for «Agua de Arrayán», a Jalisco film production by director Alejandro Robles Gil that premiered on March 24. García Rodríguez had already made a small musical contribution with the short film «Primera Lección de Magia», directed by Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos native Ramón Aurelio Ramírez Hernández. Then Robles Gil gave him the opportunity to be in charge of all the music of the feature film.
Two years earlier Víctor’s life was hanging by a thread; at the end of 2018 doctors detected a malignant tumor.. Within seven months, his doctor told him that he needed life-saving surgery.
«I had a lot to live for, since I still wanted to fulfill my dreams, like scoring a movie, I thought I would never be able to do it because I didn’t have the money; I don’t have insurance and I am a musician at heart,» García Rodríguez recalled.
A group of expats, friends, and admirers of the musician collected donations for him. On February 17, 2019, an event organized by Daniel Cordero with more than ten musical groups and soloists was held at the Iron Horse, a biker bar located in Riberas del Pilar. That day painters and photographers donated their works and more than a hundred musicians contributed their work. The community of Chapala and Ajijic raised the funds needed to save Victor’s life.
«So many times I have given my music from my heart to the people, that has been a miracle of God.» García Rodríguez has now undergone surgery and radiation three times, with one more to come. All have been paid for through donations that people offer him from their hearts, he said.
The film «Agua de Arrayán» tells of the journey of a pilgrim to visit the Virgin of Talpa, emphasizing values and personal growth. Garcia Rodríguez made the harmonies using only a computer, an interface, a controller and horn monitors. «The composition is somewhat mysterious,» he said.
The composer and musician hopes to continue his career in the world of cinema, «I still have a very long way to go, knowledge can be infinite,» he concluded.
The film «Agua de Arrayán» can be seen in 18 theaters of the Cinépolis chain in Guadalajara and in theaters in San Luis Potosí and Monterrey.
Translated by Elisabeth Shields
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