Country: Angola
Year: 2007
Duration: 48'
“Bardo” is a buddhist term that makes reference of the middle state between death and rebirth. The film is a video travel journey across northern India with echoes from Mexico City. Two journeys. One journey across Northern India, looking, listening and feeling, the other, towards the past to recover the memory of a family member who recently past away. “Bardo is my thesis project from my film school Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City. I wanted to do a very risky and intimate film. For me doing Bardo was so hard but so exciting, traveling to India all by myself with any crew, no schedule, no shooting, no actors, only intuition, very freighting but very beautiful, only cinema. I spent two months in India, when I came back I edited the film for almost a year and when I finished, I really did not know what to think about it, but I knew that when you do something that comes directly from your heart and you do it with honesty and sincerity nothing can go really bad.”
Biography
film director
Gabriel Mariño
(Puebla Pue., Mexico, 1978) graduated in History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1998 and to 2006 he studied at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica of the same university, specializing in Direction. He participated in an exchange project with the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film of Munich, taking place in the fall of 2004. In 2006 he took part in the documentary film seminar given by Patricio Guzmán in Mexico City. He has worked in a great number of short films, commercial spots, television programs and feature films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Yo, Netzahualcóyotl, lo pregunto (cm, doc., 2002), Vivir 1 (cm, 2004), Beso negro (mm, doc., 2005), Bardo (mm, doc., 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio/director, screenplay, director of photography, editor
Gabriel Mariño
suono/sound Rogelio Villanueva, Gabriel Mariño
produttore/producer Gabriel Mariño, Ángeles Castro, Hugo Rodríguez
produzione/production Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica