Chapter one · Seaflower
Presence
In post-production · Approximately 9 minutes · San Andrés and Providencia
Filmed underwater in San Andrés and Providencia, within the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve.
Presence has already been filmed underwater in San Andrés and Providencia. The institutional VR edition is in post-production. A dedicated fulldome edition is coming soon.
The chapter is built around attention rather than explanation. Large forms appear first—coral, sharks, schools of fish, open water—then quieter activity becomes visible when the viewer is given time to remain.
Private previews are being prepared for museums, science centres, aquariums, planetariums, educators, funders and potential project partners.
The fulldome edition is not a conversion of the headset film. It is a separate presentation edition being reauthored for collective viewing in planetariums and dome theatres.
The camera enters the reef. Then it waits for the reef to forget it is there.Request a private preview
How it was filmed
Stationary observation inside the reef
Presence was filmed with a method that privileges waiting over pursuit. The camera enters the reef, then remains long enough for the environment to continue around it.
Local guides in San Andrés and Providencia shaped access, safety and respect for the marine environment during production.
The immersive chapter creates the encounter. The website and education programme provide the context.
Presence is not a film about an untouched paradise. It is a document of a living system—beautiful, inhabited, protected and under pressure.
The role of the film
The encounter comes before the explanation
Environmental communication often begins with statistics, loss and instruction. Presence begins somewhere earlier.
It gives the viewer time to perceive the reef as a living place—first through its most visible forms, then through movement that only appears when attention slows down.
The chapter does not summarize Seaflower in nine minutes. Its purpose is to establish the encounter; context continues through the website, educator material and live presentation.
Presence is the encounter. Seaflower is the context.
The viewer leaves the experience. The system continues.
Where it was filmed
Filmed in Seaflower
Presence was filmed underwater in San Andrés and Providencia, within the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve—a vast biocultural seascape in the western Caribbean recognized by UNESCO since 2000.
Seaflower is inhabited, protected and under pressure. The film creates the encounter; the dedicated Seaflower page carries the fuller ecological, cultural and conservation context.
Seaflower is both an ecological system and a cultural territory.
Explore Seaflower →
Filmed in Seaflower. Environmental conditions vary between sites and through time.
Production credits
Presence was filmed with the support of local dive operators in the Seaflower region. Their knowledge of the water, conditions and community made the production possible.
San Andrés
Blue Life Dive ShopSpecial thanks to Fabian Garcia, owner of Blue Life Dive Shop, PADI Course Director with more than 25 years of experience, for his support throughout the production.
Special thanks to Angelica Henriquez, Dive Master and an incredible guide.
Thanks to Sofia Belarmina Cruz Olaciregui, dive assistant.
Providencia
Malcoln's Dive ShopSpecial thanks to Malcoln Barker, dive instructor with 25 years of experience and a remarkable guide in the water.
After the experience
What happens after the headset comes off
Stay with the film
Request a private preview of the institutional VR edition, or follow the fulldome edition as it develops for dome theatres.
Explore the place
Open the Seaflower page for ecology, culture, pressures and conservation context that sit beside the film—not inside it.
Bring it to audiences
Use educator resources, curator material and venue programmes to move from observation toward discussion.
Support access
Sponsorship can help schools, libraries, museums and nonprofits experience Presence with accompanying material.
Presence preserves a time-specific immersive record of reef environments filmed in 2026 across San Andrés and Providencia.
Although Presence is an artistic documentary rather than a formal monitoring survey, its dated and geolocated imagery can contribute to a longer visual archive of the places filmed.