72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Sipo Phantasma / Ghost Ship

Koldo Almandoz
Spain      69 m.
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An hour-long cruise, the meta-filmic essay of a vampire moviemaker, a ghost film. The story of the search for a place gives rise to discoveries that lead to other searches. F.W. Murnau and his movie Nosferatu; the love triangle between Bram Stoker, his wife Florence Balcombe and his boyfriend Oscar Wilde. Famous shipwrecks, holidays on board a ship. The stolen bust from a grave, reflections on history and cinema. A tale of Russian dolls who conceal gothic fiction, documentary realism and video essay. Narrative collage with fragments of books, letters, reports, announcements, telegrams, press cuttings, film extracts, puppets. A mirror game with real and fictional vampires; loneliness, dehumanisation, social control. And in the middle of it all, the novel Dracula; its main character, its structure, its background. Premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival.

Director
Koldo Almandoz
Screenplay
Koldo Almandoz
Production
Txintxua Films S.L. (Spain)
Marian Fernández
Photography
Koldo Almandoz, Javier Agirre
Edition
Laurent Dufreche
Music
Joserra Senperena, Ignacio Bilbao
Cast
Maider Intxauspe, Itsaso Azkarate, Karlos Odriozola
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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Txintxua Films S.L.
Euskadi Etorbidea N-53, 4ºA
20110
Trintxerpe - Pasaia
Spain
Web
Running Time
69 m.
Country
Spain
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