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| '''''The Human Surge''''' ({{lang-es|El Auge del Humano}}) is a 2016 ] directed, shot, written and edited by the Argentine director ]. It is Williams' first ], after a number of short films. ''The Human Surge'' is structured into three different segments: one in ], the second in ] and the third in ]. Williams has stated that he wanted to explore the sensation and feelings related to aimlessness and travel, and thereby "create a rhythm between excitement and boredom or surprise and depression."<ref name="MUBI">Gustavo Beck, "," '']'', August 8, 2016.</ref> | '''''The Human Surge''''' ({{lang-es|El Auge del Humano}}) is a 2016 ] directed, shot, written and edited by the Argentine director ]. It is Williams' first ], after a number of short films. ''The Human Surge'' is structured into three different segments: one in ], the second in ] and the third in ]. Williams has stated that he wanted to explore the sensation and feelings related to aimlessness and travel, and thereby "create a rhythm between excitement and boredom or surprise and depression."<ref name="MUBI">Gustavo Beck, "," '']'', August 8, 2016.</ref> | ||
| The film premiered at the ] in 2016, where it won the ''Concorso Cineasti del Presente'' (Filmmakers of the Present). |
The film premiered at the ] in 2016, where it won the ''Concorso Cineasti del Presente'' (Filmmakers of the Present). It was subsequently released at film festivals in ] and ] | ||
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| ''The Human Surge'' received generally positive reviews. It won the main prize in the section "Filmmakers of the Present" at the 2016 ].<ref name="CinemaScope">Leo Goldsmith, "," ''Cinema Scope'' 68, ] 2016.</ref> | ''The Human Surge'' received generally positive reviews. It won the main prize in the section "Filmmakers of the Present" at the 2016 ].<ref name="CinemaScope">Leo Goldsmith, "," ''Cinema Scope'' 68, ] 2016.</ref><ref name="BrooklynMagazine">Zach Lewis, "," '']'', October 5, 2016.</ref> | ||
| A number of critics picked up on the themes of alienation in the ], and how modern technology creates distance between people.<ref name="metrograph" /> | A number of critics picked up on the themes of alienation in the ], and how modern technology creates distance between people.<ref name="metrograph" /> | ||
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The Human Surge (Template:Lang-es) is a 2016 experimental film directed, shot, written and edited by the Argentine director Eduardo Williams. It is Williams' first feature film, after a number of short films. The Human Surge is structured into three different segments: one in Buenos Aires, the second in Maputo, Mozambique and the third in the Philippines. Williams has stated that he wanted to explore the sensation and feelings related to aimlessness and travel, and thereby "create a rhythm between excitement and boredom or surprise and depression."
The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2016, where it won the Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present). It was subsequently released at film festivals in Toronto and New York
Plot
In Buenos Aires, the 25-year-old Exe is fired from his workplace at a warehouse store. He subsequently spends time loitering with his friends, visiting online sex chat rooms. They perform sex acts, like fellatio, on each other in front of a web camera for money. Exe walks in solitude through a flooded borough of the city; when he arrives at his family home, he logs on to a Chaturbate website. The movie transitions into the next segment by zooming into Exe's computer screen, where a group of African teenagers in Maputo, Mozambique are also seen engaging in cybersex for money.
The Mozambique characters are also unemployed and empoverished, and perambulate through the streets between odd jobs and social events. One character is found urinating on an anthill, whereupon the film moves to the third segment, by following ants moving further into the earth, and finally arriving at a character's smartphone in the Philippines.
Production
Williams (born 1987) had made six short films, in which he experimented with different video formats and textures. In the short films Pude ver in Puma (eng. Could See a Puma, 2011) and Tôi quên rôi! (eng. I forgot!, 2014), he and his usual cinematographers Joaquin Neira and Julien Guillery experimented with different aesthetic strategies, notably the use of long, handheld tracking shots (often described as "floating" and "restless"), amateur photography, as well as elliptical storytelling, which they further developed for The Human Surge.
For The Human Surge, Williams used three types of video formats, one for each segment: the Argentine segment was shot on 16 mm film, the Mozambique part with a Blackmagic pocket camera—subsequently recaptured in Super 16 from a computer monitor, and the final Philippine sequence on a digital RED camera.
Reception
The Human Surge received generally positive reviews. It won the main prize in the section "Filmmakers of the Present" at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival.
A number of critics picked up on the themes of alienation in the internet age, and how modern technology creates distance between people.
References
- ^ "Eduardo Williams: The Human Surge," Tate Modern, February 24, 2017.
- ^ "The Human Surge," Cineuropa, accessed August 14, 2017.
- Gustavo Beck, "Embracing Uncertainty: An Interview with Eduardo Williams," MUBI, August 8, 2016.
- Ela Bittencourt, "Interview: Eduardo Williams," Film Comment, October 5, 2016.
- Pude ver un Puma, Universidad del Cine (Vimeo), accessed August 14, 2017.
- ^ Nick Pinkerton, "Mountain Out of an Anthill," Artforum, February 3, 2017.
- ^ Leo Goldsmith, "The Wanderer: Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge," Cinema Scope 68, TIFF 2016.
- ^ Andréa Picard, "Aboard the Human Express," Metrograph, March 1, 2017.
- Mark Peranson, "The Human Surge," Locarno Festival in Los Angeles, accessed August 14, 2017.
- ———. "El auge del humano," PardoLive, August 8, 2016.
- ———. "Cinema Scope 68 Editor’s Note," Cinema Scope 68, 2016.
- Zach Lewis, "#NYFF 2016: The Human Surge," Brooklyn Magazine, October 5, 2016.
External links
- The Human Surge at IMDb
- The Human Surge at Critics Round Up