Home(s)

Is Home a physical place or a psychological one? Using the metaphor of a train, this short film explores what it's like to constantly be moving forward, while not being able to let go of choices made in the past. New homes superseding the old homes, memories themselves changing and mutating, movement is depicted as inevitable and constant. But so is regret.

  • Ricardo Salcedo Martínez
    Director
    Joaquin's Birthday, Will there be Dancing on Mars?, 26 Failures
  • Ricardo Salcedo Martínez
    Writer
    Joaquin's Birthday, Will there be Dancing on Mars?, 26 Failures
  • Dolores del Socorro Hernández
    Producer
  • Dolores del Socorro Hernández
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Ricardo Salcedo Martínez
    Key Cast
    "Guy"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 27, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Chile, Ecuador, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • SAIC's Film, Video, New Media, Animation and Sound Festival
    Chicago
    United States
    May 12, 2017
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Phoenix Shorts
    Phoenix
    United States
    Semi-finalist
Director Biography - Ricardo Salcedo Martínez

Ricardo Salcedo Martínez received his MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, sponsored by a scholarship from the Ecuadorean government through its Secretary of Education SENESCYT in 2017. He completed a BA in film at the School of Arts and Social Sciences (ARCIS) in Santiago, Chile. His research interests include the symbiotic relationship of culture and film, Ecuadorean and Chilean national cinema, the possibilities of low-budget “guerrilla” style filmmaking, and thoughtful science-fiction. He is a film editor, who also sometimes writes and directs.

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Director Statement

Home(s) is the search for a space that when you come back to it, is no longer yours. We move forward through life with the memories of the places we loved, the places from our childhood, and often we long to go back to them. However, the further down our life we go, these places cease to exist. As we grow more desperate to hold on to them, we might even try never leaving them at all. Staying still, however, only guarantees that time will make sure they leave us.