Private Project

Exilio

Exploration between the characters and the filmmaker. A quest into a universal existential problem, how to inhabit the world. Members of a family leave their home and in the middle of the Cuban Sierra Maestra struggle to find a new one. During this process they inhabit scenes of a routine life in the middle of nature, outside of a closed space between four walls, place and concept they long and project. It concludes with the departure of the patriarch and the already palpable absence of a father with dark gaze who dreams of going far away from his country in the pursuit of something different, becomes a reality. Contemplative meditation of an internal torment.

  • Maria Espinoza Stransky
    Director
  • Maria Espinoza Stransky
    Writer
  • Maria Espinoza Stransky
    Producer
  • Francisco Paz Valdez
    Producer
  • Pável Soler Rodríguez
    Key Cast
  • Niurkis Castro Carrión
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 31, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Cuba
  • Country of Filming:
    Cuba
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - EICTV
Director Biography - Maria Espinoza Stransky

Maria Espinoza Stransky initially studied Philosophy and Theatre at the Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France). Thereafter she studied filmmaking at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ENSAV, Toulouse) where she specialized in Film Direction. In both public institutions, she graduated with honors. She is the co-founder and active member of Sha Mat Les Films Sans Défense, an artist collective and cultural association created in 2017. Maria is a filmmaker, a video artist, a writer and an actress. In 2019, she underwent a Documentary Filmmaking residency at the International School of Film and TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Since 2020, she has been teaching the workshop "Self-Referential Cinema: Hybrid Forms" at the Facultad de Cine in Mexico City where she currently resides.

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Director Statement

This film was made during the creation of a common language between the characters and the filmmaker. It was through this language that the possibility of creating something together began to reveal itself. The search for the staged scenes came about from conversations where they would imagine the home they would soon find, as well as the gestures, the actions and the life moments they would experience. The intention was to represent themselves in that state but in the middle of nature. Fiction was the ideal form to represent that which cannot be said. In that sense, the major internal torment became the end of the movie even if in real life it did not happen, or not yet: the departure of the father.