The Fallen Time (El Tiempo Caído)
Essay, Fiction
Duration: 12 min
Spanish Language
Original format: HD
Projection format: Blu-Ray, DCP 2k 1:85 Stereo
Production: Benito Macías © 2014 Spain
Direction, editing and sound: Benito Macías
Production: Teorema Films
With the collaboration of the Municipal Historical Archive of Cádiz and the intervention of Gabriel Gómez in the voice of the protagonist.
Through recreations of dialogues, descriptions of situations and contexts articulated by means of vernacular and whispered adjectives, the interpretations of the photographs are transcended in search of traces, of gestures that offer the interlocutor the active possibility of participating in creation and urban transit. %22The fallen time%22 is an approach to the local identity through a place of contrast: the fiction of a ghostly Cádiz immersed in a conspiracy composed of micro stories that tries to reveal the hidden through a game with the times looking for the timelessness from the perception of sound.
This piece was presented in the exhibition %22Los Ojos del Tiempo, Cádiz, in dialogue with the Meana Larrucea collection%22 curated by Guillermo Paneque. Castillo de Santa Catalina, Cádiz (2014).
Director Bio
Benito Macías (Oviedo, 1985) is a filmmaker and anthropologist who works with cinematographic language from the sociological imagination.
As a professional he has collaborated for more than 15 years on different projects with filmmakers and artists, mainly as a producer, editor, sound designer and distributor. In 2014 he founded Teorema Films, a film production and distribution company dedicated to auteur cinema. His projects are in permanent dialogue with different contexts and disciplines where the base of experimentation and ethnography reformulate different forms of work.