Origin



—UHD video
—15:35
—5.1 surround sound
—Ca2M
—Madrid
—2023
—text

[Installation shot at Ca2M, 2023]


Director: KARLOS GIL
Directora de fotografía: CRISOL CARBALLAL
Ayudante de cámara: ANE HERVÁS OZCÁRIZ
Foto fija: MANUEL ÁLVAREZ
Directora de producción: LAURA MARTÍN GARCÍA
Ayudante de producción: ÁLVARO TORRES PASCUAL
Gaffer: MARÍA JOSÉ ROS
Eléctrico 1: ROCIO CUENA
Eléctrico 2: CARLA GAMO
Manipulador de dron: JUAN MANUEL HERRERO
Runner: AARON VAZQUEZ
Auxiliar de montaje: JAVIER ROBLES
Edición: KARLOS GIL, 
Sonido: KARLOS GIL
Postproducción Sonido: VINCENZO GERMANO 
Colorista: CLAUDIO GÜELL (El Colorado)


The film Origin was shot in the vast, dark passages under Madrid. Images of the hollow underground are combined with haunting deep listening music in order to interrogate the nature of time and how cinema can shape our conception of past, present and future realities. The film conjures up ghosts of Mesopotamian warriors while predicting human disasters and futuristic alien behavior. Things of ever deeper antiquity seem to wake up and begin their comeback lurking in a smooth subterranean labyrinth

Places are severed from the conventions of time past, present or future where the line between real and imagined becomes uncertain. In that sense, underground chambers are where extraordinary events come to pass, the origin of gods and monsters; fossils and new living systems, of burial and rebirth. Dark, labyrinthine and timeless, underground chambers are places of visions and experiences both sacred and profane

Here the spectator is summoned into a labyrinth of tunnels, an architecture below the recognizable face of the Earth, perhaps beyond the strata of time of human life and of nature itself. As if the narrative had been subsumed to a stream of intangible beings and non-intelligible language, to a world of pure haptic perception and phenomenological experiences

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