MAELSTRØM
3:00 BLOCK 9 WICKED
Thriller (Spain) 2018
Director: Carlos Gómez-Trigo
PA Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Karl spins the spoon from his coffee and something spins even faster inside Tony's head.
DIRECTOR BIO: Carlos Gómez-Trigo (Madrid, 1981) In 2007 he studied Filmmaking in Barcelona where he shot his first short film, “Clase de baile,” winning the First Prize at Certamen de Jóvenes Artistas de Castilla-La Mancha in 2009. In 2008 he traveled to India to film two documentaries and then moved back to Madrid where he currently works as producer and director of commercials. In 2010 he shot his second short film, “Ilusión,” and two years later he became co-founder from Tithily Films, working as producer and director.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT: When I started to think about Maelstrøm as a visual concept, I was trying to make an exercise about the narrative use of zoom technique. No dialogues, one location and using codes from a western were my guidelines. Beside that, I worked the concept line from exploring two ideas and takes them to the extreme. Obsession, as a pathological process, that makes a person feel trapped and make decisions that he would not otherwise have made. Intolerance, as a characteristic of our current society that shows intransigence with the behavior of the "other."