Dead slow ahead

Dead slow ahead

 

30 June | 22:00h | Teatro Principal

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A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its pace reveals the continuous movement of the machinery devouring its workers: the old sailor’s gestures disappearing under the mechanical and impersonal pulse of the twenty-first century. Perhaps it is a boat adri , or maybe just the last example of an endangered species with engines still running, unstoppable.


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Spain, France | 2015 | 74’ | Color | DCP

Direction: Mauro Herce. Script: Mauro Herce, Manuel Muñoz Rivas. Cinematography: Mauro Herce. Editing: Manuel Muñoz Rivas. Sound: Daniel Fernández, Alejandro Castillo, Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Carlos E. García, José M. Berenguer. Production: José Alayón, Ventura Durall, Mauro Herce. Production Company: El Viaje Films, Nanouk Films, Bocalupo Films. 

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Festivals:

Locarno Film Festival 2015. Special Jury Prize.
Jilhava Film Festival 2015. Best World Documentary.
DocLisboa 2015. FCSH Award for Best First Feature Film comprising Competitions and New Visions and Universities Jury Award.


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Born in Barcelona in 1976, Mauro Herce graduated in engineering and fine arts before enrolling in film school at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière in Paris. He started his career as a director of photography and screenwriter on such films as Arraianos (2012), O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser (2013) and Slimane (2013). Dead Slow Ahead  is his first feature film as a director.