ANTÍGONA DESPIERTA

Lupe Pérez García

Spain 63 min. min Fiction

Synopsis

What is, nowadays, the sense of making Antigone to emerge from her millenary lethargy? The amorphous woman follows an older, chaotic law, both animal and tribal at once. Now that war is over, the birds call her from the edge of depths: “Tonight you will bury your brother” -they say-, since we have already covered him in kisses. Her rebelliousness before human law is an attempt to the rationality of a nation, a proof of love that drags her to the dead’s land: the homeland of her brother, the homeland of her father. Only when there is a vibration between the spirit and the world, Antigone awakes. Catalan première

The director will be presenting the movie.

 

Filmmaker

Lupe Pérez García

She has made two feature films: Diario Argentino (2006, Prix du Jeune Public at Visions du Réel and the Jury Mention at Festival Alcances), and Antígona Despierta (2014). As an editor, she has made El quadern de Fang (Isaki Lacuesta), and El cielo gira (Mercedes Álvarez, Best Editing Award by the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Españoles 2006).

Filmography: Antígona Despierta (2014), Diario Argentino (2006)

Lupe Pérez García

Film information

Original Title: ANTIGONE AWAKE
Director: Lupe Pérez García
Script: Lupe Pérez García
Contact: Labyrint Films | Toma 78
With: Gala Pérez Iñesta, Sibel Tresaco Lera, Francisco Javier Lera Terés, María Lera Gracia, Manuel Tresaco Lera
Country: Spain
Year: 2014
Format: DCP
Length: 63 min. min
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Edition: 2015