Cinders

A man ascends through a dry and inhospitable landscape, searching for the appropriate place to perform his intimate and personal rite of expiation, as a vital need to reconnect with his environment and his present.

  • Oskar Luko
    Director
  • Oskar Luko
    Key Cast
  • Lluis Miras
    Photography
  • Arnau Musach
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Cendres
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    videodance, dance-video, screendance, environmental, ecology, video art, video danza, Climate change, desert, loneliness, solitude, reconnection, log on
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 10, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    1,300 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Makizhmithran International Film Festival

    winner
  • AASHA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

    winner
  • ART SPEAKS OUT – ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE

    Official Selection
  • FILMFEST BY ROGUE DANCER

    Official Selection
  • CANNES WORLD FILM FESTIVAL

    Finalist
  • FESTIVAL VIDEODANZA DE PUERTO RICO

    Official Selection
  • PLATARTÍSTIC – SPRING DANCEFILM FEST

    Official Selection
  • PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL

    Official Selection
  • WICKLOW SCREENDANCE LABORATORY FILM FESTIVAL

    Official Selection
  • FESTIVAL DE MÁLAGA

    ESPACIO SOLIDARIO
  • WORLD INDIE FILM AWARDS

    Semi-finalist
  • EKO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

    Official Selection
  • OTHERMOVIE LUGANO FILM FESTIVAL

    Official Selection
  • KALAKARI FILM FEST

    Official Selection
  • FROME INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL

    Official Selection
  • SCRITTURA E IMMAGINE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

    Finalist
  • HEALTH FOR ALL FILM FESTIVAL · WHO

    Official Selection
  • ’24 GIFF | GENESIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

    winner
Director Biography - Oskar Luko

Theater actor, performer and dancer.
He works as acting coach in films, 100 meters by Marcel Barrena. Illargi guztiak by Igor Legarreta, El Otro by Marc Gazquez Ros, El Cuerpo en llamas by Jorge Torregrossa and Vacio by Javier Cano.
And as a theater movement assistant in Jump, Eden.
As an actor in cinema and TV he has worked in La máquina de pintar nubes by Patxo Tellería and Aitor Mazo and El cuerpo en llamas by Jorge Torregrossa, as well as in several short films.
He directed and performed Cendres, an environmental Screen-dance short film.

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Director Statement

Cendres was born as a report in response to a conference on climate change.
It is motivated by this need to stop the world we sometimes have, this need to leave this moment, this work, this relationship for a moment and try to breathe and connect with your most natural environment, your self in the present moment.