From Afar

From Afar

2DCSCS/ES15
Director:Lorenzo Vigas
Cast:Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo
Premiere:3. November 2016
Length:90 minutes
Genre:Drama

Director: Lorenzo Vigas  •  Scenario: Lorenzo Vigas  •  Cast: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo, Jorge Luis Bosque

Armando, a wealthy middle-aged loner, the owner of a dental implant workshop, picks up on the street Elder, a young man who is living rough on the periphery of Caracas. That which starts with a sexual services transaction soon develops into a volatile, unequal, taciturn relationship, in which the two men try to overcome the initial aggressiveness and mutual distance, and to heal the scars from their own pasts. In his debut, Lorenzo Vigas works with a rigorous aloofness, radically elliptical narration and the depersonalised backdrop of the Caracas outskirts. Accordingly, the turbulent nexus is transformed into a discomposing succession of unfinished fragments, whose forcibility rests in the distance the director keeps from the protagonists. From Afar provides a cogent picture of emotional depletion and manipulation, suggesting that converging with another person may sometimes ultimately, and fatally, disclose the insuperable profundity of one’s loneliness.

Length: 90 min

Year: 2016
Local premiere date: 3. November 2016

Country of origin:

  • Venezuela
  • Mexico

Director: Lorenzo Vigas  •  Scenario: Lorenzo Vigas  •  Cast: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo, Jorge Luis Bosque

Armando, a wealthy middle-aged loner, the owner of a dental implant workshop, picks up on the street Elder, a young man who is living rough on the periphery of Caracas. That which starts with a sexual services transaction soon develops into a volatile, unequal, taciturn relationship, in which the two men try to overcome the initial aggressiveness and mutual distance, and to heal the scars from their own pasts. In his debut, Lorenzo Vigas works with a rigorous aloofness, radically elliptical narration and the depersonalised backdrop of the Caracas outskirts. Accordingly, the turbulent nexus is transformed into a discomposing succession of unfinished fragments, whose forcibility rests in the distance the director keeps from the protagonists. From Afar provides a cogent picture of emotional depletion and manipulation, suggesting that converging with another person may sometimes ultimately, and fatally, disclose the insuperable profundity of one’s loneliness.

Year: 2016
Local premiere date: 3. November 2016

Country of origin:

  • Venezuela
  • Mexico