The hermit Horace von Clunk finds a cowboy, Kyle Hellman, in the desert and, after discovering that he has been bitten by a rattlesnake, amputates his leg. Kyle decides to travel to the nearest town, but amidst the physical suffering and the difficulties of crossing the desert, he decides to kill himself. After tying a noose to a tree, the cowboy finds a wooden leg buried nearby and, not knowing that it belongs to another man, takes it for himself.
Biography
film director
Juan-Felipe Balcazar
(1987, Bogotá, Colombia) studied visual media and philosophy in Washington and worked in New York and in London. He then completed his master's degree in filmmaking at the London Film School, where he made several short films covering different roles. As director he made Races (2016), Red Night (2016) and The Third Degree (2017); Downbound Wayfarer (2019) is his last short film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Races (cm, 2016), Red Night (cm, 2016), The Third Degree (cm, 2017), Downbound Wayfarer (cm, 2019).
Declaration
film director
"What attracted me to the idea of adapting this ancient writing to the modern medium of cinema is its use of irony and what I perceive is the underlying humour that indicates the lack of control that man has over his own fate. It depicts a kind of cosmic joke at the expense of the individual that reflects my interests in black humour and how it deals at its core with a very serious subject matter, in this case, the issue of suicide."