The San Sebastian Film Festival awarded O Corno (The Rye Horn) with the Golden Shell for Best Film. San Sebastián native Jaione Camborda took the top prize of the night for the feature she directed.
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J. Kim Murphy Mankind is barreling further into an age of climate disaster, but whether it has the speaking vocabulary, much less a cinematic one, to accurately interpret its rapidly changing environment is another matter. With his astonishing new experimental feature, “The Human Surge 3,” Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams proposes a new analogue for the sensation of modern living: It’s kind of like seeing panoramas shot with a 360-degree camera, navigated via a VR headset and then translated back to a traditional cinematic frame, completely and utterly distorting the imagery in the process.
If that all sounds like a discombobulating experience, it is. It’s also a uniquely rewarding one. Prospective viewers should at least be familiar with the first “Human Surge” before experiencing Williams’ continuation.
As an art-house in-joke, the title of Williams’ new sort-of-documentary, sort-of-funhouse-mirror-maze skips straight to threequel status. There is no “The Human Surge 2.” It’s a comical touch that clues into the film’s playful disorientations, jumping around different areas of the world with little introduction or clarification. Across the various friend groups featured in “The Human Surge 3,” no individual appears to be older than 30.
There’s an impression of an endless summer, with riverside lazing, flirty conversations and an excursion to a pounding rave — a focus on youth that’s key to Williams’ forward-looking contemplations, while also offering some coziness to complement an eerie ambiance. Williams found his actors by meeting locals and distributing flyers in Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Peru. The settings may be disparate, but the film constantly slips between them, blurring the three into one gloomy jungle.
.The San Sebastian Film Festival awarded O Corno (The Rye Horn) with the Golden Shell for Best Film. San Sebastián native Jaione Camborda took the top prize of the night for the feature she directed.
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