Hunger

Above all, the film Hunger is a combination of artistic disciplines: film, dance, painting, photography, music…
Hunger will be created with a carefully crafted image. Even in the film's most difficult moments, the light will be worked on like a canvas, seeking the most beautiful composition. Music is a very important factor, another character in the story. With all of this, we will convey the most intense feelings, blending the world of film with dance in a very artistic way.
Likewise, painting plays a very important role, both in the story and in the film's artistic direction.
An air of contemporary art surrounds the entire project and encompasses all these artistic disciplines.

In this story, we will embark on a journey with Judah, which will take us to the incessant search of human beings to find their place in the world, a reason for their very existence, which in certain cases can lead us to unusual places and to do unthinkable things, although always justified in a thousand ways.
This search for his inner self will take us into the most animal part of human beings, into their basic instincts. Judah will reach the depths of that animal part, embracing it, understanding it, and of course, reaffirming it.
A solitary journey of continuous discovery throughout the story.

Judah's dramatic journey through life undoubtedly reflects basic aspects of human beings in general, such as loneliness, which is driven by the type of society we live in, with large cities, packed with people, all unaware of one another. There is no loneliness worse than when you are surrounded by people everywhere, feeling lost, excluded, and consequently, shutting yourself away, making it impossible to go outside.
The desire to find someone who will help us climb out of this existential pit makes us go from one person to another looking for something that will let us see the light, something almost impossible since we cannot climb out of our pit solely on the energy of others. We are the ones who lock ourselves in, and we ourselves must pull ourselves out. Our character will find that light in Rebecca, beginning a search that will gradually sink him deeper, until he reaches rock bottom.

Love, when it first appears, is above all due to its power and irrationality. It completely absorbs you, you can hardly think of anything else, and it can even be physically painful. Everything changes, everything revolves around it, it makes life stop, and until it's over, you can't go on. Naturally, it never completely disappears; a trace of that love stays with you forever and accompanies you throughout your life.
Love and heartbreak create us, shape us throughout our lives, making us stronger, weaker, more distrustful, reaffirming us as people, little by little, step by step.
Judah will go through all the stages. The lack of love will carry him through the story, creating doubts about himself, about what he is, about who he believes he is, as it would for anyone in a world so lacking in love and filled with so many prejudices, especially those we discover within ourselves.

Exploring all these dramatic states directly related to life itself, to our own existence, and planting a seed for all kinds of questions to emerge is something we seek with this story: to stir the viewer's consciousness a little.

The context for the story, where the characters and actions unfold, is the world of dance, which will encompass the entire universe of Judah's journey toward discovery and self-destruction. Generating a narrative within the story with a very precise tempo and a carefully crafted and delicate image will be a premise of the story, all thanks to dance, which is not only the context but also the expressive starting point of the entire film.

The engine that drives all these mechanisms and leads us to the most extreme situations, a very important point in the story, is cannibalism, to which Judah will be hopelessly driven.
Judah will encounter a completely animal part of himself, guided simply and basically by his instincts. Inside him, a battle rages between the animal and rational parts, a fierce struggle.
Ultimately, victory will go to his most animal part, connecting that part directly with the rational, rationalizing his actions coherently and thus creating a pattern of the perfect victim or prey, in his case. A basic pattern for the profile of serial killers.
Speaking more psychologically, the brain is divided into three fundamental parts. The reptilian part houses basic instincts such as eating, sleeping, breathing, and killing. The feeling part governs empathy, love, hate, and so on. And finally, there is the learning part, which rules over the others and basically tells us what to do.