El Vuelco del Cangrejo
Part of Outsider Pictures’ Latin American Showcase
El Vuelco del Cangrejo
(Crab Trap)
Set in the Afro-Colombian community of La Barra on Colombia’s Pacific coast, CRAB TRAP depicts a young man trying to flee his past and the imminent clash between a remote village and modernity, personified by two intruding foreigners. Daniel arrives in the village looking for a boat to leave the country. He intends to stay for only a few days, but a strange shortage of fish has forced the local fishermen to sail far out to sea in hopes of finding new resources. These circumstances make Daniel’s search more difficult. In the meantime the villagers have their own issues: Cerebro, the leader of the community, is trying to adjust to the rapidly modernizing world. The townspeople never bothered to confirm their ownership of the land they have lived on for many generations, until El Paisa, a landowner who wants to build a beach resort, arrives.
Screening as part of Outsider Pictures’ Latin American Showcase.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
When shooting ended on this film I, along with my crew, felt we had ventured inside one of the communities living along Colombia’s Pacific coast to create a portrait of its complexities, desires and contradictions, avoiding at all costs foreign exoticism or urban paternalism. With the complicity of the region’s inhabitants, we began this journey, which suggests a need for change, an urge to escape in search for a new path, a desire to rewrite what has been lost or forgotten. A man who discovers a place surrounded by the jungle and the sea and where life progresses at a different speed, at a slower pace dictated by the laws of Nature, in a land that starts to stagger when confronted by the paradox of “modernity.” Galloping through the ambiguous gap between reality and fiction, I tried to express this clash between two visions, the ancestral vs. the foreign, and the lack of understanding of those of us who live in the cities when we see ourselves as above those remaining on the periphery. A metaphor for the current critical condition of Colombian society, an austere and respectful approach, but above all, bathed in the epiphany of a place and a few anonymous faces anxious to be seen by the whole world.
Oscar Ruíz Navia
Screening as part of Outsider Pictures’ Latin American Showcase.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
When shooting ended on this film I, along with my crew, felt we had ventured inside one of the communities living along Colombia’s Pacific coast to create a portrait of its complexities, desires and contradictions, avoiding at all costs foreign exoticism or urban paternalism. With the complicity of the region’s inhabitants, we began this journey, which suggests a need for change, an urge to escape in search for a new path, a desire to rewrite what has been lost or forgotten. A man who discovers a place surrounded by the jungle and the sea and where life progresses at a different speed, at a slower pace dictated by the laws of Nature, in a land that starts to stagger when confronted by the paradox of “modernity.” Galloping through the ambiguous gap between reality and fiction, I tried to express this clash between two visions, the ancestral vs. the foreign, and the lack of understanding of those of us who live in the cities when we see ourselves as above those remaining on the periphery. A metaphor for the current critical condition of Colombian society, an austere and respectful approach, but above all, bathed in the epiphany of a place and a few anonymous faces anxious to be seen by the whole world.
Oscar Ruíz Navia
Genre
Drama
Web Site
Runtime
95
Language
Spanish
Director
Oscar Ruiz Navia
Cast
Jazmin ~ Karent Hinestroza,
Miguel ~ Miguel Valoy,
Israel ~ Israel Rivas
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