Hermetica Komhata HK320

BIO/FILMOGRAPHY
Ric Salvador (born 1970, Zaragoza , Spain)
Other names: Dr. Joseph H. Stanislaw
Editor, 2d animator, Post-production manager, screenwriter and underground film-maker.
Since 1998 Salvador has been developing film making activities between London (UK) and Zaragoza (Spain) he works as an editor and in post-production collaboraring in short films, features and advertising .
In the year 2000 his passion for ancient philosophy influenced him to found Hermetica films, a company dedicated to produce underground films of hidden knowledge through the exploration of alternative narrative worlds.
"UNO" (2001) Super 8, colour, 15 min. Filmatic Award in 2001
"He thought He could FLY" (2002) 16 mm, colour, 5 min.
"Ánimas" (2003) 35 mm, b/w & colour, 3 min.
Since 2005 to date he has been experimenting with public archive's footage, creating twenty-three short pieces of appropriation and ten animations, a collection made under the name of
"The Observatory of Nuclear Ectoplasm" A fictional society of scholars and scientists founded to restored the memory of DR. Joseph Hyeronimous Stanislaw; an unusual and almost invisible (fictitious) scientist-filmmaker who disappeared in 1944 .
The Observatory project continued in 2010 when he assumed the role of directing and editing the retro SCi-Fi film "Hermetica Komhata HK320" (2016) Super 16mm & 2K digital, b/w & colour, 95 min. Finally completed and released as a found footage film, the final cut is the product of the combination of six filmed scenes of conventional fiction with the Observatory’s collection, which it was specially produced to build up the narrative of the film.