Aqueronte

TITLE

Aqueronte

DIRECTOR

Manuel Muñoz Rivas

COUNTRY

Spain

YEAR

2023

DURATION

25′

GENRE

Documentary

Overview

Aqueronte

On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other. Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time. The journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Manuel Muñoz Rivas (1978) is a filmmaker based in Spain. He alternates his personal film projects with co-writing and editing films for colleagues. His work as a film director to date explores a local geographic area that is familiar to him (the southern Spanish region of Andalusia), with special attention to the aesthetic and poetics of the landscape and the photogenic value of the human face, with a hybrid approach that aims to transcend genre labels or conventions (fiction or documentary) and privileges what we could call "cinema of presence" versus "cinema of representation”. His first feature film EL MAR NOS MIRA DE LEJOS (The sea stares at us from afar) was premiered in 2017 at BERLINALE, in the FORUM section, and was shown at several international film festivals.

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Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Manuel Muñoz Rivas (1978) is a filmmaker based in Spain. He alternates his personal film projects with co-writing and editing films for colleagues. His work as a film director to date explores a local geographic area that is familiar to him (the southern Spanish region of Andalusia), with special attention to the aesthetic and poetics of the landscape and the photogenic value of the human face, with a hybrid approach that aims to transcend genre labels or conventions (fiction or documentary) and privileges what we could call "cinema of presence" versus "cinema of representation”. His first feature film EL MAR NOS MIRA DE LEJOS (The sea stares at us from afar) was premiered in 2017 at BERLINALE, in the FORUM section, and was shown at several international film festivals.

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