He aquí un cuerpo que cae

Samuel Fuentes, Richard Mascherin / Spain (World Premiere - 2021 - 9’ - VOSE)

Take actions that lead the body to lose control, from impulse, gravity or bodily effort. The body plays with the relationship between emotional and physical fall, between pleasure and pain. The inevitability of the fall and the impossibility of moving forward are the engine of this audiovisual piece. A universe where failure takes the first place to show its most vulnerable form in the filmic space. How can the fall be reflected in this space? On the falling body: Inspired and inclined by the conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader or the actor, screenwriter and director Buster Keaton, Mascherin plays between these lines of research. Being interested in existentialism and the common point between tragedy and humor: to reach an overcoming of laughter and pain. Facing the perspective that everything continues to turn and fall and making a parallelism with the day to day.

Data sheet

Director: Samuel Fuentes, Richard Mascherin
Year: 2021
Country: Spain
Length: 9 min.
Original language: Spanish
Leadings: Richard Mascherin
Editor: Samuel Fuentes
Producers: Konvent Zero, Richard Mascherin, Samuel Fuentes

Samuel Fuentes

He is a filmmaker and researcher who lives between Madrid and Amsterdam. His first feature-length documentary, FANNIKA (2019), born as a final project in the Master in Architectural Communication (MAca), has been screened in places like Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Cineteca Matadero Madrid, Festival Internacional de Cine de Buenos Aires (FIDBA) or Cecehachero Film Fest (Mexico). He was part of the first group of young programmers of Cineteca at Matadero Madrid (Cinezeta); and member of the editorial committee of the publication 255 Arquitectura Editorial Experimental. In 2019 he co-founded the architectural research and communication studio issues. He has held residencies in creative places such as the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Cuba) or Konvent Puntzero (Berga, Barcelona). His practice as a film researcher is situated between the traces of affect, architecture and memory, and the interconnections of these in their fragmentation in filmic language.

Richard Mascherin

Artist from the Canary Islands. Graduated in Contemporary Dance at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma in Madrid. With a degree in General Cinema (Escuela de Cine y Teatro Metrópolis) is currently specializing in Film and TV (Angel Plana School of Specialists). He has worked with stage directors and choreographers such as Sharon Fridman (2015-2019) or Marcos Morau (2019-2021), among others. In his creations he explores the vulnerability of the body and the inevitability of falling. He is working on his latest project “CAER, CAER, CAER, CAER”, in which he investigates through different media: performance, dance, video and photography.