Forum of Independents - Competition 2011 / El alma de las moscas / Spain 2011
An imaginative, magically poetic story of two brothers who were unaware of each other’s existence and who never knew their father until a letter arrives from him inviting them to his funeral.... A perfect example of an independent writer-director film with superb music by Tim Walters and original songs from Andrea Calabrese.
Brothers Nero and Miguel are unaware of each other’s existence; they didn’t even know their father, until he wrote them a letter inviting them to his own funeral. Thus the siblings meet for the very first time at a train station, only to discover that no trains have run through here for years. So they begin their wanderings through the Castillian Meseta, a scorched landscape instilled forever with their father’s stories. As they head for the funeral, their true journey is one that takes them towards each other, drawn from nothing into a strange imaginary world of magical dimensions, a surge of memories, stories and dreams, united by solitude. Through his innovative visual poetry full of absurdity, humour and melancholy, Cenzual Burley proves that poetry is not created in poetic images, but in the way we look at the world. He managed to film his low budget debut with only one camera and a crew of seven. The director’s creed: "If you haven’t got any money, make a film that doesn’t require any. Stories don’t cost anything, so long as you surround yourself with like-minded people who share your enthusiasm.”
80 min / Color, HD CAM
World premiere
Director Jonathan Cenzual Burley
/ Screenplay Jonathan Cenzual Burley
/ Dir. of Photography Jonathan Cenzual Burley
/ Music Tim Walters, Andrea Calabrese
/ Editor Jonathan Cenzual Burley
/ Producer Jonathan Cenzual Burley
/ Production El Mailan films
/ Cast Andrea Calabrese, Javier Sáez
/ Contact El Mailan films
www: www.elalmadelasmoscas.com
Jonathan Cenzual Burley (b. 1980, Salamanca, Spain) studied drawing from the age of eleven and, age 12, he was taking photographs on a Zenith 12XL. He moved to England in 1997, where he did film projections for various bands during their live concerts. In Argentina he collaborated on films with the production company Black Boot Beach, and in Colombia and Panama he worked as a cameraman and documentarist. He was artistic director for the British bands Last Days of Lorca and Monsters Build Mean Robots. The Soul of Flies is his first feature film.
El Mailan films
, 371 84, Salamanca
Spain
Phone: +44 779 620 565 2
E-mail: [email protected]
Jonathan Cenzual Burley
Film Director, Film Director
Laura Laakso
Film Crew
Tim Walters
Music Composer
Norberto Gutiérrez
Actor
Javier Sáez
Actor
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