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SFFILM Festival

The Human Surge

Directed by Eduardo Williams

Argentina/Brazil/Portugal | 97

15 Apr
Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:30 pm PT

Description

Eduardo Williams has steadily made a name for himself with a series of indelible shorts featuring young protagonists adrift in strange environments. In his debut feature, a prizewinner at Locarno, he takes the premise further, crafting a dreamlike three-part drama where youths from Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines are connected by invisible, electronic, or even subterranean means. Without clear demarcations between work and leisure, or public and private space, the camera itself seems at a loss to define its relationship to these figures: Are they documentary subjects? Narrative protagonists? Virtual avatars? The only constant is movement. The Human Surge’s thrilling horizontal jumps between disparate settings, tones, and palettes suggest the connective logic of the internet, making it all the more ironic that, in a sly riff on Beckett, the characters spend much of their time looking for a way online. Consistently inventive, The Human Surge burrows into three continents and finds surprising associations. –Max Goldberg

Director Eduardo Williams

After studying at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Eduardo Williams directed a series of peripatetic shorts including Tan atentos (2010), Could See a Puma (2011), That I’m Falling (2013), and I Forgot! (2014). His debut feature, The Human Surge, won the Golden Leopard in the “Filmmakers of the Present” section of the Locarno Film Festival.

Trailer

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Film Details

Language Spanish, Portuguese, Cebuano

Year 2016

Runtime 97

Country Argentina/Brazil/Portugal

Director Eduardo Williams

Producer Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero, Jerónimo Quevedo, María Victoria Marotta, Rodrigo Teixeira, Rodrigo Areias

Writer Eduardo Williams

Editor Alice Furtado, Eduardo Williams

Cinematographer Joaquin Neira, Julien Guillery, Eduardo Williams

Cast Sergio Morosini, Shine Marx, Domingos Marengula