CIFF 2023

SHORTS: BIOCHEMICAL EQUATION

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8 films in package
POWER SIGNAL
While trying to navigate a city that won’t provide him a bathroom, a delivery worker discovers an unearthly presence infecting women all over New York.
BLOND NIGHT
At night, Victor walks without supervision to live his life.
MYSTIC TIGER
After suffering a mysterious accident, a man acquires the ability to transgress time and space.
WHITE ANT
A man is summoned from Mumbai to his childhood home to deal with a termite infestation.
SOLEIL DE NUIT
During a space exploration training mission, an astronaut is interrupted by an Atikamekw elder and is asked to deliver an important message to the moon.
LO-TECH REALITY
Against the post-industrial landscape of Detroit, visitors arrive from the sky in search of knowledge.
À LA VIE À L'AMOR
What is unconditional love? Cesar turns 30, grabs his camera, and sets off to find out.
DEATH & RAMEN
A ramen chef spends his final night alive hanging out with the Grim Reaper. Through a bowl of ramen, they discover what it means to be human.
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Electric touches meet a lavender haze. Technology, noise, glitch, and life blend together in this package that is equal parts spiritual and mystical. 


Against the post-industrial landscape of Detroit, visitors arrive from the sky in search of knowledge. They find nothing but traces of civilization and a coded transmission between the images and sounds of the city.


In Detroit, the emptiness evokes a dream from the past: the capitalist dream of Fordism derived from a lo-tech nightmare. Its streets, their scale unbalanced in relation to the life on them, and its abandoned industrial structures, reflect the possibility of a programming failure in capitalism in the heart of its Mecca, the United States.


Now, more than ever, after witnessing how images that belong to future dystopian worlds have become a reality during confinement, the empty spaces are a reminder of our fragility. But, camouflaged in the empty space, there are forms of resilience that want to electrify the inner city with hi-tech dreams from the LO-TECH REALITY.


LO-TECH REALITY will be screened as a part of the SHORTS: BIOCHEMICAL EQUATION package.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    8 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Spain
  • Premiere
    Canadian
  • Director
    Guillermo Garcia Lopez
  • Screenwriter
    Guillermo Garcia Lopez
  • Editor
    Guillermo García López
  • Music
    Mike Banks
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