He indie has not died! This is the good news that the friends of the platform announce to us of the movie with a new series of films available to its subscribers. Under the generic title of Back to indie, we can enjoy, from this friday 12/6, from a selection of 22 works with the most independent contemporary North American cinema. The beginnings of that first Sundance Festival that would serve as a container and showcase for the most innovative and personal cinema are now far away.. Little by little, over the years, the label indie It would become perverted and the big Hollywood production companies would take over it through films made by subsidiary companies that saw a new vein in it.. The idea of a cinema different from the big productions of the industry was maintained., a cinema of intimate stories, if you want, but subject to very specific coordinates that would make that showcase appease its original radicality.. This cycle comes to tell us that all is not lost. They are works that invite us to come into contact with a new generation of directors who, entering the second decade of the 21st century, have received attention from the most prestigious festivals in the world.
The cycle premieres with two titles that serve as a symbol of this proposal. The first of them is Greener grass Dawn Luebbe and Jocelyn DeBoer, a comedy starring the directors themselves and that has already passed through festivals such as Locarno, Sitges or the Atlanta Film Festival, organized by the Filmin platform itself. An attack on the American way of life that has Jill as its protagonist, a woman who lives in a model house, along with her model children and a husband with a well-paid job, that is to say, everything one could want. But the world around Jill is an absolute distortion of that idealized dream.. In the residential neighborhood where he lives, everything is exaggeratedly colorful., people drive golf cars, couples dress matching clothes and family members are “interchangeable”. As if this were not enough, there is a murderer loose around. Did we say distortion? Maybe not so much.
The second title with which this exhibition begins refers to the diptych A bread factory the Patrick Wang, hilarious comedy, with shades of the best Wes Anderson, tells us about the complex process of gentrification that many communities in the United States suffer (let's go, like here). on this tape, Dorothea and Greta are two women already of retirement age who, after forty years managing an artistic space, They see how it is threatened because of real estate speculation. Around them and in this space we will meet a group of characters, each one more extravagant.. Besides, the cycle includes The grief of others, Wang's previous work, selected at the Cannes festival and, in a more intimate tone, tells the story of a young couple who loses their child a few hours after birth.
The program continues with works such as Ape, directorial debut of the unclassifiable Joel Potrykus with whom he would win, at the time, the Nobel Prize for Best Direction at the Locarno Festival. Here, Trevor Newandyke is a young comedian from stand up, fond of playing with fire, that faces, he alone, to the annoyance of consumer society when your telephone company threatens to raise your rates. The color wheel by Alex Ross Perry tells us about the problems that arise between two brothers from the moment she leaves her relationship with a university professor. Shot in black and white, and in 16 millimeters, The film shows us their differences when they both embark on a trip to collect her things from the professor's house.. Shot in an almost documentary tone, New Jerusalem by Rick Alverson tells us about the hard return from the war in Afghanistan of a young soldier of Irish origin, and in Green, Sophia Takal's debut film, reality and fantasy mix when two young urbanites, Genevieve and Sebastian, They leave everything to take refuge in a small rural community.
After these two jobs, and with references to The seagull by Chekhov, some Ice Moons by Roman Polanski and the work of the writer David Foster Wallace, It is presented Silver bullets from the producer, director y actor Joe Swanberg, story of love and jealousy starring a film director who feels betrayed when his girlfriend stars in someone else's film. The book also deals with relationships that are more than toxic. trhiller Sun don’t shine by Amy Seimetz, while Little feet de Alexandre Rockwell (Four rooms) offers us the intimate portrait of some children who live in the city of Los Angeles and want to see the river for the first time. an idea, that of the trip, that he shares with Vacation by Zach Clark where, in a comedic tone, a group of friends are going to spend a few days at the beach where they will enjoy the sun, the sand… and psychotropic drugs. There is more.
On the other hand, Filmin offers us, also, the third edition of Indie-Doc Fest of Korean Cinema that, as his name already announces to us, wants to be a showcase of the talent of the best emerging Korean cinema. Total, a selection of six feature films and three shorts that we can enjoy between the days 11 al 21 of June. Organized by the Korean Cultural Center of Madrid together with the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the collaboration of ECAM, the magazine Cayman Film Notebooks, Asia House and Asia Cinema, This exhibition puts on the table six female names distributed, in its feature film section, in four works of fiction and two documentaries.
We start this selection with Our body, director Ka-ram Han's debut behind the camera, who offers us here a sensitive portrait of a young, Ja-young, that is at a crossroads. After eight years preparing for oppositions and after turning thirty, decides he can't study anymore. The problem is that he finds himself with the fact that he has never worked and, above all, he feels older, especially against other younger competitors. Ja-young will find her outlet in physical exercise from the day she meets a runner with whom she will make friends. The most relevant thing about this work is the simplicity with which Ka-ram Han guides us through the maturation process of his protagonist, an inner journey that confronts us with the difficult relationship between ourselves and an external world that requires us to adapt.
Sensitive and very curious is also the debut feature of director Yu Eun-jeong, Ghost walk, film for which he received the Audience Award at the Busan Festival. A movie that, somehow, Remitted us to A ghost story by the American David Lowery. Like in the Lowery tape, Yu Eun-jeong puts us before the abyss that opens up before the possibility of death, of that non-being or a world in which we no longer exist. Hye-jeong is a young woman who works in a factory on the outskirts of the city.. One day, He discovers that he has died and that he has become a ghost. From here, Hye-jeong begins a journey back in time to find out what happened. On that trip, The young woman will discover what the life of the people who accompanied her in her daily life and to whom she had not paid attention is like..
Two works close the fiction proposals: A boy and sungreen de Ahn Ju Young, journey of a young high school student in search of a father he thought was deceased, y Way back home, Sunjoo Park's latest work, an intense drama that tells us about how to confront the past through the story of a woman, Jeong-won, who receives a call from the police announcing that the man who raped her ten years ago has been arrested. Now in the documentary field we will enjoy two works. In The pregnant tree and the goblin by Park Kyoungtae and Kim Dongryung, We get closer to the life of Park Insun, a former sex worker from an American military camp who offers us the excuse to investigate death and, again, last. What this woman faces when she discovers that, after forty years, the military base is going to be demolished. Y A corner shop by Lee Suk-gyeong, another documentary piece that will show us the work of Picnic Cat, a successful company dedicated to introducing young people who have no training into the world of work.
Among the short films we find the documentary A town with a blue hill de Joowon Song, small piece of 16 minutes that invites us on a poetic tour of a modest neighborhood. Next to this, we will see the medium film Beginners’ class de Kim Hyun-jung, Seoul Independent Film Festival Jury Prize, in which a young woman who lives in the suburbs signs up for a screenwriting course in the capital, an opportunity for her and an original proposal about personal relationships. And a short animation, The piece Movements by Dahee Jeong, a beautiful exercise in style that invites us to reflect precisely on that, The movement, that is to say, about the very fact of moving, an unconscious act that is present to us here and that perhaps connects us with eternity. GERARDO LEON
