AQUERONTE

Film Info

Spain 2023 | 27 min. Director: Manuel Muñoz Rivas

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AQUERONTE

Synopsis

On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other.
Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time.
The 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.

Cast & Crew

Director

Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Producer

Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Screenwriter

Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Director of photography

Mauro Herce, Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Editor (Cut)

Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Sound

José Homer Mora, Luiz Lepchak, Joaquín Pachón, Alejandro Castillo
Production Design

María Gisèle Royo

Director's comment

With each new film project, it is natural for me to return to the foundational question of "what is cinema", and to engage with this inquiry through a wider formulation:
"What can cinema be?".
I feel that the commitment of every filmmaker is to carry out a formal exploration through which, hopefully, to broaden the contours of what we expect from cinema as an art. Both as a filmmaker and as a film spectator, I seek astonishment and wonder.
I would add that I also seek the revelation of something, a kind of truth, which might comfort me (and others) with a sense of belonging.
When I first approached the location where later I would shoot my film AQUERONTE, the river Guadalquivir and more specifically the ferry boat that crosses it, I was struck by the aesthetic characteristics of the scene. Everything that I identify as defining elements of cinema was there: movement, faces, bodies, landscape, sound atmospheres, light and shadow, reverie, the visible and the latent force of the invisible ... all present in the raw material with which to shape fragments of time and space.
Because ultimately that is what we filmmakers do: compose with fragments of time and fragments of space.