A Tiny Message To Infinity
- Film présenté cette année à Cinélatino
Apenas el Sol – Compétition Long-métrage documentaire 2021
- Direction
- Arami Ullón
- Country
- Switzerland, Paraguay
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Documentary
- Original title
- A Tiny message to Infinity
- Scenario
- Arami Ullón
Arami Ullón
Arami Ullón (Paraguay) produced 18 and a Half Cigarettes (SPAIN/MEX/PAR – 2011). Directed the feature documentaries El tiempo nublado (CH/PAR – 2014) and Apenas el Sol (CH/PAR – 2020). Her documentary debut was awarded the Regard Neuf for Best First Film at Visions du Réel (2014) and was the first Paraguayan entry to the Oscars (2016). Her second film was released as the opening film of IDFA 2020.
Filmography
– Apenas el Sol, 2020 IDFA (Opening Film & Competition), Cinélatino (Competition) –El Tiempo Nublado, 2014 Visions du réel (Winner section regards neuf) , Karlovy Vary, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal, Locarno Film Festival
Note of intent
What I have been building as the body of my work explores identity, sense of belonging, and the meaning of home from different angles. Moreover, as a filmmaker, I am constantly faced with the complexities of creating representations of others and of oneself. These subjects, to which I am personally and professionally committed, have great resonance with those arising when facing the project of human representation in space, and the human desire of conquering new territories, potential new homes.
Synopsis
A Tiny Message to Infinity is a documentary essay which dives into the deeply human need to communicate, identify, and define ourselves. In this case, through the messages – official and unofficial – that humanity has been sending into outer space. This set of communications, made of matter, images, and sounds is creating one of the most extensive collective portraits of humanity ever built, through which we try to explain, once again, who we are. And, through them, we might also be cultivating the hope that life can continue on other planets, in the face of the dramatic degradation of our current home: Earth.
Visual concept
Currently in development.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
To find programmes for further development, co-producers, TV broasdcasters and sales agents.
- Shooting planned date
2022
- Planned shooting location
Several places around the world
- Budget
- 900 000 USD
- Percentage of funding in place
- 10%
- Project's development phase
Developement
- Production
- Cineworx FilmProduktion
- Coproduction
- Arami Ullon Ciné
- Biographie producteur.ice
Pascal Traechslin founded in 2003 Cineworx, a distribution company based in Basel and in 2004 Cineworx Filmproduktion, a production company based in Zurich. In his career, he distributed around 150 titles and produced more than 15 films like Zeit des Abschieds by Mehdi Sahebi (2006), Madonnen by Maria Speth (2007), El tiempo nublado (2014) and Apenas el sol both by Arami Ullón (2020).