Boca de aire

Direction
Julián d´Angiolillo
Country
Argentina
Format
Feature film
Type
Fiction
Original title
Boca de aire
Scenario
Julián d ́Angiolillo

Julián d´Angiolillo

Julián d ́Angiolillo (Bs As 1976) has a Visual Arts and Playwriting Degree. His documentary “ Hacerme feriante” shot at La Salada market, was shown at several international film festivals and was awarded Best Documentary Prize by the Argentinian Academy and from FIDOCS Festival. He designed the 4 channel video installation “ Ride direction”. He recently finished his second film “ Cuerpo de letra”

Filmography

“Hacerme Feriante”  (Become a stallholder, Documentary Feature 2010) / Best Documentary Prize 2011 Argentinian Academy / FIDOCS, Chile – Jury Mention / BAFICI Argentina Official Competition / Black Movie Film Festival, Switzerland. “ Autosocorro”  (Selfrescue, Documentary short, 2014)  /Festival Internacional de Mar del Plata Selección Oficial / SpeleoFilm Festival, Croatia. “ Cuerpo de letra”  (Embodied letters, Documentary Feature 2015) / VIENNALE Film Festival / FICUNAM Mexico City International Competition / Transcinema, Perú – Jury Mention / Cinema de Fronteira, Brasil – Best picture Prize UFAC.

Note of intent

This movie is based on a research carried out about diverse historical milestones of the discipline that studies caverns:Speleology.But above all it is an excuse for thinking over that thing we call inner world. When talking to speleologists, many of them remarked to me the experience of “ being in a place before anyone else ever” —a paradox that stirs the experience of Enlightenment in a blind space.The frantic search of a place when one can feel sheltered in depths unsuspected by Google Earth

Synopsis

Airflows guide the mountain’s expeditionary team, to the rhythm of the breath in its insides: the caves. A group of speleologists makes acoustic records to measure up the size of invisible hollow spaces, huge sound boxes. The Field Recording changes into a time-space odyssey that tunes historical episodes which are isolated but secretly bonded: the Renaissance representation of the caverns and its influence on the public parks of modernity, the hydrological studies of Martel the pioneer, the geographical institutionalization in Cuba where caves were thought as refuges for civilians during the Cold War, or the tourism industry taming centuries of geological erosion. The language of the expeditionary members mutates smoothly from one history to the other; the underground inspires the dissolution of the homeland that rules up in the surface.

Visual concept

In underground expeditions, the perceptual boundaries determine the sense of sight. Blinking is useless; light is not longer given. The ears listen in detail what is beating inside the bodies rather than the environment. The episodes’ structure of the film will be immersed in this mood confined by darkness and by the prevalence of the sense of hearing; a remembrance of the childhood’s bedtime story, when it is not possible to tell whether the tale comes from the outside world or from the subject’s subjective one.

Shooting planned date

November, 2016 / March, 2017

Planned shooting location

Cuba, Argentina, France, Italy

Budget
$800.000
Percentage of funding in place
10%
Project's development phase

Research, scouting. Script development.

Production
El Nuevo Municipio
Biographie producteur.ice

Producer of several films, documentaries, performances and installations, she recently created her own film production company Andes Cine (www.andescine.com) with the intention to boost the 3 production of works aimed at new perspectives on fiction and documentary. She also worked as General Producer of 29th Mar del Plata International Film Fest (2014), and Executive Producer of 28th edition (2013)