Experimental Documentary Film
DCP 4K / 7.1 / 2:39:1 / colour / 83’ / 2021
‘So foul a sky, clears not without a storm.’
– Joseph Conrad quoting Shakespeare
OIL. NATIONHOOD. IDENTITY.
“So Foul A Sky” is a cinematographic meditation on the fragile and conflictive relationship between the citizen and a state that has ceased to provide meaning, future, and identity. Taking as a starting point certain sensibilities of Joseph Conrad’s magnum opus, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904), this film finds in contemporary Venezuela an illustration of a nation-state on the brink of political, economic, and foremost, symbolic collapse.
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CREDITS
Written & Directed Álvaro F. Pulpeiro
Produced Laura C. Solano, INSIGHT TWI, Pulpeiro.Co
Cinematography Mauricio Reyes Serrano, Álvaro F. Pulpeiro
Edited Martín Amézaga
Sound Design Tomas Blazukas
Voices Carlos Eduardo Meneses, Rosaura Arteaga
Original Music Sergio Zuluaga
Colour Correction Vlad Barin
With the support of CHEAT, London Audio Post
Distribution SYNDICADO Film Sales
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
– Wolrd Premiere CPH:DOX Next:Wave Award Competition, 2021
– IndieLisboa International Film Festival 2021 (Lisbon, Portugal) – Silvestre Competition
– Olhar do Cinema Festival Internacional de Curitiba 2021 (Curitiba, Brazil) – Competition
– Saratov Sufferings International Film Festival of Documentary Drama, Official Selection (Saratov, Rusia) – WINNER BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
– BIFF Bogotá International Film Festival, Colombia Viva Official Selection (Bogotá, Colombia)
– Biografilm Festival 2021 (Bologna, Italy) – Official International Competition
– Development LAB DocsBarcelona Work in Progress
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