Biscayne Blues

Biscayne Blues is an experimental short film about a poet who falls in love with Lady Death. Driving alongside Biscayne Boulevard on his Dodge Dart, the Biscayne Poet enlists the help of his music band, attends his own funeral and encounters seductive nymphs under the sea. Biscayne Blues combines aerial and underwater cinematography.

  • Claudio Marcotulli
    Director
    Limbo Umbilical (Screen Dance Festival), Remo Memories (305 Havana International Improv Festival)
  • William Rey
    Producer
  • Oscar Fuentes
    Key Cast
  • Claudio Marcotulli, Oscar Fuentes, William Rey
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    music, Fantasy, Fiction, Experimental, Mystery
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Miami short Film Festival 2016
    Miami
    United States
    November 14, 2016
    US Premiere
  • Miami Independent Film Festival
    Miami
    United States
    12/01/2016
  • I'm Not Gonna Move to L.A.
    Miami
    United States
    07/05/2017
    Audience Award
Director Biography - Claudio Marcotulli

Claudio Marcotulli is a Miami-based filmmaker and performer interested in exploring the surreal through symbolism, absurdity and ill-conceived characters. Initially trained as Aeronautical Engineer, Marcotulli received his B.F.A from Emerson College in Boston, and M.F.A in Film Production from the Miami International University of Art and Design. His films include Abstract Nature of Logic, Mars Kill Bird, Fuácata, The Cow is Leaving, Limbo Umbilical and Biscayne Blues.

Marcotulli has collaborated with performance artist Becky Flowers, choreographers Pioneer Winter and Sandra Portal-Andreu, Grammy awardee Sammy Figueroa and theater director Jose Manuel Dominguez, among others. His work has been presented at Miami Theater Center’s Sand Box, Bakehouse Complex, Adrienne Arsht Center, Inkub8, Miami Beach Cinemateque, Screen Dance Miami and Miami-Dade County Public Libraries.

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Director Statement

In film as in performance, I have always been attracted to non-linear, surreal universes where abstract images, concepts and narratives dress and adorn the human form. The characters I create are non-stereotypical, captive of their psyche and often looking for a missing part. They interchange feelings, personas and experiences, threading multiple perspectives into one.

My latest practice involves collaborating with choreographers, actors and performance artists that seek non-conventional, distorted narratives and immersive imagery to entice audiences to connect instinctively.