Country: Angola
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
A woman by the name of Cocó accidentally scratches the film on which she is portrayed, thus creating a strange character, which she decides to call Nicó. This character goes out of his way to try to please his creator, engaging in a peculiar love story with her. A game, dream and love… “Cocó y Nicó is a game explaining what cinema can achieve with its technical defects: dirt, skips and irregularities in the images can be put in relation with a character, creating a little story.”
Biography
film director
Alejandro Cantú
(Mexico City, 1969) studied visual arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, photography at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía and film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos. He won the Young Creators grant from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes with the short Película perdida y encontrada, and the Z Films award at the third Mexican Short Film Day. He directed three episodes of the series “Cuentos para solitarios.” Since 1997, he has specialized in cinematography, working on music videos, commercials, television and many Mexican films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Las Alas de Alicia (cm, 1995), Película perdida y encontrada (cm, 1999), La Bomba (cm, 2000), Cocó y Nicó (cm, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, soggetto, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, screenplay, story, director of photography, film editor, producer Alejandro Cantú
scenografia/set design Martha Camarillo
musica, suono/music, sound Pedro Jiménez Gurría
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Diana Lein (Cocó), Junior Paulino (Nicó)
produzione/production Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine)
coproduzione/coproduction Colectivo Mis Polainas Imcine
distribuzione/distribution Colectivo Mis Polainas Imcine
scenografia/set design Martha Camarillo
musica, suono/music, sound Pedro Jiménez Gurría
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Diana Lein (Cocó), Junior Paulino (Nicó)
produzione/production Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine)
coproduzione/coproduction Colectivo Mis Polainas Imcine
distribuzione/distribution Colectivo Mis Polainas Imcine