Mamántula is the guy everyone desires, but he is also, secretly, a giant tarantula disguised as a human, conceived during a brief encounter in a distant paradise. In an alternative present of brutalist saunas, endless metro corridors, and trench-coated, hat-wearing detectives, each of Mamántula’s lovers falls victim to his insatiable lust for blood and semen; a thread in the stellar web he’s weaving to return to the dimension where he belongs.Read More »
In 2052, a man wanders through a semi-constructed high rise in pursuit of hidden targets, in a minimalist rethinking of Blade Runner.Read More »
Synopsis:
El futuro opens with the news, over a black background, of Felipe González’s recent electoral victory in 1982. A preamble before the camera moves into the heart of a party. However it only gives a distant, dull view of the dancing and flirting of the modern youth of that time. Amidst the alcohol, the constant music and conversations captured in passing –very often in an oblique way-, López Carrasco (from the Collective Los Hijos) gives the impression of time standing still, of progress halted by tedium, that crystallizes in the uneasy sensation summoned up by that future of the title. An eloquent end to the party and a dawn, 30 years later, that opens multiple doors for thinking.Read More »