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THE HUMAN SURGE 3

Eduardo Williams
Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Peru, 2023
161 min.

Three different groups of friends wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards the mystery of new possibilities.

Devant nous, the surge. Bazin’s myth of total cinema ascends to a new meaning in the hands of Eduardo Williams, as he opens the screen — what even is the screen anymore? — to the flowing stream of a reality much more complete than we’ve ever imagined. The Human Surge 3 stretches the frame and the visual field to the limits, questioning, in the age of VR and expanded technologies, the relevance of such concepts. The images of a 360° camera that can never be seen yet is so jarringly easy to perceive turn the film into a visual paradox of both omnipresence in its most acute form and a simultaneous, exacerbated lack of presence. Total reality and total construction, behind the technological lyricism of a hyper-contemporary visual language there lies a celebration of the cacophony and imperfection of human life. (Dora Leu)

Data proiecție și locație

Friday, 29th of September | 18:00

Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bd. Dacia, nr. 77
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Eduardo Williams

Eduardo Williams is a filmmaker and artist whose works explore a fluid mode of observation, looking for shared relations and spontaneous adventures within physical and virtual networks. His first feature, The Human Surge, won the Pardo d’oro at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • SCREENPLAY: Eduardo Williams
  • CAST: Meera Nadarasa, Sharika Navamani, Livia Silvano, Abel Navarro, Ri Ri Yang, Bo-Kai Hsu
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Victoria Pereda
  • EDITING: Eduardo Williams
  • SOUND: Paulo Lima, Yu-Hsien Wu, Chris Shiao, Ísis Araújo
  • SOUND EDITING: Paulo Lima
  • SOUND MIXING: Tiago Bello,Tiago Raposinho
  • MUSIC: Alada
  • SFX: Eduardo Williams
  • VFX: Eduardo Williams
  • PRODUCED BY: Un Puma, Oublaum Filmes, Estúdio Giz, Revolver Amsterdam, Rediance, Volos Films International
  • PRODUCER: Jerónimo Quevedo, María Victoria Marotta, Eduardo Williams, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Ico Costa, Xie Meng, Chang Chu-ti, Aline Mazzarella, Matheus Peçanha, Naomi Pacifique, Albert Kuhn, Germen Boelens, Raymond van der Kaaij
  • EXECUTIVE RPODUCER: Jerónimo Quevedo, María Victoria Marotta, Gerald Herman, Felipe Fernandes, Stefano Centini, Julia Alves
  • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Kurt Kao, Yaoting Zhang, Krzysztof Dabrowski, Franco Bacchiani
  • PRODUCTION MANAGER: Trilce Patrón, Anthony Lordon

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