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ALEGRÍAS RIOJANAS

Velasco Broca
Spain, 2022
19 min.

An ophthalmologist’s confession is interrupted when the priest who was attending him leaves in an emergency. After he is fatally hit by a car, his immortal soul is cast into a medieval-looking purgatory populated by grotesque creatures, blemishes and devils.

Alegrías riojanas is a free-flowing exercise of non-narrativity. Located between dream and surrealist purgatory, Velasco Brocas’s film constructs a universe in which symbolism is difficult to unravel, and proposes an iconographic spectacle similar to the REM phase of sleep, when dreams are most vivid. What ends up being sent to this universe is the soul of an ophthalmologist who died in an accident. Not having finished his religious confession, it seems that his soul is stuck in an in-between world, forced to live with the grotesque. Broca’s grainy black-and-white film enhances a feeling of unreality and the sense of mystery, moving even more categorically away from the actual perception of things. (Emilian Lungu)

Data proiecție și locație

Thursday, 28th of September | 20:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Premii și festivaluri

Velasco Broca

Velasco Broca’s trilogy of 16mm short films, Echos Der Buchrücken (2001-2007) has participated in international festivals such as Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Sitges, Slamdance (Best Experimental Short Film Award) and Torino, among others. In 2010 he shot the short film essay VDO out of his mind about the film director Val del Omar. After his five-year retreat in India, he returned with Our Friend the Moon, whose World Premiere took place at the Locarno Film Festival and won the Best Short Film Awards at BAFICI and Malaga Film Festival.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Juan Antonio Herreruela, Ramon Churruca, Fernando Moreno, Rafael Alberola, Barbara Mingo, Jose Luis Pérez Santiago, Nerea Revilla
  • SCREENPLAY: Velasco Broca, Lucía Moreno
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Isabel Ruiz Ruiz
  • EDITING: Velasco Broca
  • SOUND: Luca Rullo, Roberto Fernández
  • ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Pedro Muñoz
  • FX: Salvador J. Boluda, Jorge Torrens
  • PRODUCED BY: Euskadi Movie AIE
  • PRODUCER: Eduardo Carneros

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An ophthalmologist's confession is interrupted when the priest who was attending him leaves in an emergency. After he is fatally hit by a car, his immortal soul is cast into a medieval-looking purgatory populated by grotesque creatures, blemishes and devils.

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