Film Record: Eureka

Video capture of Eureka

Date produced: 1974

Filmmaker(s):

Nicolás Echevarría

Country of Production:

Mexico

Duration:

00:06:33

Format:

Super8

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Unknown

Awards/Recognition:

This film is part of the Superocheros anthology, compiled by UNAM Film Archives.

Description:

"Primer súper 8 de Nicolás Echevarría, quien ya había realizado un trabajo experimental en 16 milímetros y veía en los superocheros una suerte de "comunidad de marginados" con la que se sentía a gusto, mostraba sobre el fondo de una pieza de Ravel las poses de un contorsionista que buscaba la autosatisfacción en un decorado que asocia la noción burguesa de confort al erotismo" (Vázquez Mantecón 2012)

"First super 8 film of Nicolás Echevarría, who had already filmed and experimental piece in 16 mm and saw in the supereighters a sort of "outcasts' community" that he identified himself with, it showed with the background of a Ravel musical piece the poses of a male contortionist looking for self-satisfaction in a setting that associates the notion of the bourgeoisie to the comfort of eroticism"

Resources:

Vázquez Mantecón, Álvaro. El Cine Super 8 en México 1970-1989 . Filmoteca UNAM, 2012. Find this book in Filmoteca UNAM Docs

This film appears in the DVD anthology Superocheros. Filmoteca UNAM, Mexico City, 2008.

Subjects:

•           Abstract films
•      Music
•      Satire
•      Young men

Genre:

• Experimental

Form:

• Short

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