Country: Spain
Year: 2015
Duration: 74'
A freighter crosses the ocean lulled by the hypnotic rhythm generated by its unstoppable machinery. The crew, inextricably linked to its functioning, seems trapped in a dimension with dystopian hues: they automatically do their work, repeating the same gestures at a time when machineries have destroyed the ancient job of the sailor. Or maybe it’s just the wreck of a species going extinct, already adrift…
Biography
film director
Mauro Herce
Mauro Herce (Barcelona, Spain, 1976) studied engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and fine arts at the University of Barcelona. After graduating, he enrolled in film school at San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba, followed by the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière in Paris. After completing his studies, he started working as a director of photography and screenwriter on more than twenty movies, including Arrayanos (Eloy Enciso, 2012), which was presented at the Locarno Film Festival, and O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser (Alberto Garcia, 2013), winner of the FIPRESCI Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Dead Slow Ahead is his first feature film as a director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dead Slow Ahead (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“We imagined we were on the last ship on Earth: the crew on board doesn’t know the world has ended so they keep repeating the usual automatic gestures dictated by the needs of the steel monster that they unknowingly keep alive. Dead Slow Ahead depicts a very topical nightmare, without trying to express judgment or sociological explanations. It has a different intention: it seeks to capture the most ancient and fundamental images of human kind, the forge where man becomes insignificant before the verdict imposed by the machinery that is looming over him.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia/director, cinematography
Mauro Herce
soggetto/story
Manuel Muñoz R., Mauro Herce
montaggio/film editing
Manuel Muñoz R.
suono/sound
Daniel Fernández, Alejandro Castillo, Manuel Muñoz R., Carlos E. García, José M. Berenguer
produzione/production
El Viaje Films, Nanouk Films, Bocalupo Films
Mauro Herce
soggetto/story
Manuel Muñoz R., Mauro Herce
montaggio/film editing
Manuel Muñoz R.
suono/sound
Daniel Fernández, Alejandro Castillo, Manuel Muñoz R., Carlos E. García, José M. Berenguer
produzione/production
El Viaje Films, Nanouk Films, Bocalupo Films
