Sin ton ni son
World premiere.
Introduction and Q&A with Víctor Ladera (filmmaker) and Inés Calero (film programmer).
With a radical premiss that strips cinema of its artifices to expose its entrails, Víctor Ladera expresses a hypnotic journey of unconventional minimalist technique, filming with an analogue video camera, without editing, and with an obsessive soundtrack created with a cassette tape recorder.
Sin ton ni son is a film that lasts thirty minutes because the DV magnetic tape on which it is recorded has a length of thirty minutes. There is no post-production editing to reinterpret each shot or to break away from the original emotions. Every shot is final, every alteration of light an expressive change, every fade a punctuation of the piece’s condensed experimental prose where chance also forms part of the artistic inscription. The magnetic exploration of digital language by filmmaker Víctor Ladera runs parallel to an astounding sound technique that delves into the possibilities of a forgotten device like the cassette, creating an expressive loop of accelerations and decelerations that imbue the narrative with melancholy and obstinacy. A supposed trip to Florence, or perhaps to Palma de Mallorca, or perhaps to Portugal, lights and compositions that penetrate the retina, a fascinating sunset. Every film is a construct, every shot is a film — stripped here of all superficiality, moving towards a truthful feeling in which everything is said, although nothing is written.
Miquel Martí Freixas
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