Cinema
EFPEUM
Mauricio Odremán Nieto · 1965
Synopsis
At the university, an architect presents to an audience the project for a building of a new kind: a functional structure for finding oneself, which would allow those who live in it to live differently and to go beyond their own dimension. He sets out to build this impossible machine, a work of architecture and alchemy at once. The occult and the Orient run through the undertaking, one character says he has sent a message by telepathy, and humour accompanies each person's journey.
Context
The film was produced by the Coofilven cooperative. Samuel Roldán, Bertha Mantilla and Carlos Guerrero, who was also a producer, are the performers; the photography is by Tony Rodríguez, the editing by Antonio de la Rosa, the music by Manolo González, and the credits name the ensemble of young musicians Los Sigmas and the dog Azabache. The poster announced it as the country's first science fiction film. Its author recounts in a book that the audience at the Cinémathèque laughed from start to finish and spoke of the craziest film of the year, without grasping the architect's point, and that the prints remained in the hands of the producers.
Who it is for
Half an hour in Spanish, in black and white, with no translation; one must accept an architect's exposition and a measure of esotericism.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the first Venezuelan film of its genre; its author's family put a copy online in 2006.
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