2024 | Spain | Documentary

Mitología De Barrio (A Suburban Mythology)

  • Chinese, Spanish English, French 70 mins
  • Director | Antonio Llamas, Jorge Rojas, Alejandro Pérez Castellanos
  • Writer | Alejandro Pérez Castellanos, Ximo Peris, Antonio Llamas, Jorge Rojas
  • Producer | Jaime Gona, Eva Bodas Gómez

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

In the torpor of a summer afternoon with suspended temporality, crushed by sunlight, falsely deserted spaces are revealed. Large fixed shots that come to life with insistent figures but seem lost in the places: here dogs on a walk, there a man planted as much in as in front of the landscape, or another crossing the frame at a running pace. From one close-up to the next, these sketches with a burlesque tone seem to haunt the city as much as to inhabit the dreams of the character who lives at the heart of the film: Mr. Tang, in his small neighborhood shop. Without any indication of location, over the course of this survey a form of generic and singular mental map of this periphery gradually takes shape. With its own mythology, as drawn by the three young members of the collective " espíritu escalera ". A city subject to creeping gentrification also appears, suggested by touches. Far from the center, from power, and without it, as the final montage underlines not without irony.

Drama Psychological Surrealism Summer Sunlight Landscape Dream Haunt Inhabit Mythology Irony Neighborhood Life Documentary
Playlists