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00:00Venezuela, a country rich in oil, is now in ruins due to a sharp political and humanitarian crisis.

00:06Inhabited by transit characters, orphans of a state that in a way has abandoned them.

00:11What happens when what you thought belonged to the homeland, to the symbols, to history,

00:18suddenly decomposes completely, leaving you absolutely devastated?

00:23That is, like an orphan, what happens at that moment and where do you go, especially inside yourself?

00:27With the novel Nostromo by Joseph Conrad under his arm,

00:30in its second part, the Galician Álvaro Fernández Pulpeiro

00:33turns Venezuela into his particular Costa Guana,

00:36a name with which the writer baptized a fictitious republic of South America

00:40and offers us a sensory and immersive experience,

00:43along with ghostly characters and characters from the film.

00:47Venezuela is a rhetorical figure for me.

00:49That is, Venezuela is like Paraconra of the Costa Guana,

00:52which is a fragmentation of a lot of feelings, landscapes, geopolitical situations,

00:58where you start to organize them, but beyond the documentary reality.

01:03Here the images were discovered, just as a diamond is discovered, under pressure,

01:07under pure pressure, we discovered it.

01:09So, in that sense, Venezuela is a metaphor,

01:12sometimes you don't make the film you want, you make the film you can.

01:16And that seems very beautiful to me.

01:18Making the film you can, because it also gives you a touch of humility

01:21that cinema is not subjugating a landscape or a society or a reality

01:25based on resources and financing,

01:28but based on ingenuity,

01:31based on identifying yourself a little bit with everything you are.

01:35I would like to ask you,

01:38to identify yourself a little bit with everything you are.

01:41Un cielo tan turbio is a journey to the bowels of desolation,

01:45a fascinating film in the background and in the form,

01:48in which an overwhelming cacophonic colas

01:50and the heartbreaking beauty of shadows and darkness

01:53imprison us without feeling the need to escape.

01:57Because such a cloudy sky is as subjugating

01:59as the way of living and understanding the cinema of its director,

02:03Álvaro Fernández Pulpeiro.

02:05One of the great visual inspirations of the film is

02:08Soy Cuba, by Karatozo,

02:10which is photographed by Sergei Urusevsky,

02:13who was a war photographer, a war cinematographer, really.

02:19The sound is really an absolutely invented sound.

02:21Imagine, 400 layers of sounds

02:24during an hour and a half of film.

02:26Una patria que es tan grande, aunque quieran ser malos.

02:32And in terms of the image, or the darkness,

02:35or the gloomy identity of this image,

02:37it basically comes from the idea of suspending the passage of time.

02:41And in this way we build what is a limbo.

02:44The limbo in which all these characters live, all these people, really.

02:47We didn't want to drink, for example,

02:49neither from the Verité cinema nor from the ethnographic sensory cinema.

02:53We wanted to invent, let's say, a new poetic of the image

02:56in which we negotiate in a visceral and total way with reality,

03:01but at the same time we didn't only exist in relation to it.

03:05We didn't just observe it, we weren't passive entities.

03:09From there comes, obviously, a type of photography

03:11that is both intrusive and at the same time completely distant from reality.

03:16It's curious, what is to observe?

03:19That is, who observes who?

03:21Because we always think that cinema is us looking at.

03:24But I felt, and we really felt in many moments,

03:27that the most important thing is how they looked at us,

03:29from the inside out and from the outside in.

03:31So we are trying to invert a little the relation of the gaze.

So Foul a Sky | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer

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