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AQUERONTE

Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Spain, 2023
26 min.

On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other. Cradled by the waves, their journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.

Taking its name from a Greek river of mythical dimension, Aqueronte projects the legendary nature of this body of water onto a ferry trip in Southern Spain. The borders of time and space become unclear inside the film’s 16mm images, blending one into the other amongst intoxicating tones of blue. All passengers fall into a deep sleep throughout the crossing, as if under anaesthesia induced by the endless dilation in space and time. Caught in a dream, the journey passes almost imperceptibly, and, when they wake up, the passengers seem to have already arrived at the shore. Aqueronte is a piece of slow cinema that, through relocation and atemporality, gains a mystical connotation, yet doesn’t hesitate to also cast its gaze upon the ordinary, with the impatience of lovers who want to isolate the moment in time. (Emilian Lungu)

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Thursday, 28th of September | 20:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Manuel Muñoz Rivas is a filmmaker based in Spain. He alternates his personal film projects with co-writing and editing films for colleagues. His work as a film director explores the Spanish region of Andalusia, with special attention to the aesthetic and poetics of the landscape and the photogenic value of the human face. His approach aims to transcend genre labels or conventions (fiction or documentary) and privileges a “cinema of presence” versus “cinema of representation”. His first feature film El Mar Nos Mira De Lejos was premiered in 2017 at the Berlinale in the Forum section.

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  • Production and distribution
  • DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER: Manuel Muñoz Rivas
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Mauro Herce / Manuel Muñoz Rivas
  • EDITOR: Manuel Muñoz Rivas
  • SOUND RECORDIST: Joaquín Pachón
  • SOUND DESIGN : José Homer Mora / Luiz Lepchak
  • SOUND MIXING: Alejandro Castillo
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Manuel Muñoz Rivas
  • PRODUCTION MANAGER: María Gisèle Royo

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