The anguish that the man feels is tangible, and you can see the sorrow that he feels as his statue begins to crumble away, not knowing that it is actually coming to life. He eventually sacrifices his life as he transforms into a sculpture, breathing life into his statue, which becomes the physical manifestation of his wife. The story revolves around a sculptor who loses his wife in a car accident, and his love for her leads him to make the most realistic sculptures possible. It had the feel of an Oscar-nominated short film, and while not as famous as its older brother Aftermath, was quite possibly the best of the three as well. The third and final film in the trilogy is Genesis, and is, quite frankly, the most beautiful and well-done of the three. Cerda's limited catalogue is kinda sad, as he's clearly a pretty effective filmmaker already by this point in his career. But I promise, it really is good! It's a wonderfully shot movie, concise in time and plot, and very well done for, again, a second effort. It occurs to me as I write that that if you are just a standard horror movie viewer and you don't go out of your way to watch the sickest and most disturbing movies you can, that I sound pretty fucked up. You could've actually been watching an autopsy, and you could've actually been watching the dude have sex with the corpse. It was pretty disturbing conceptually, but it was also very realistically gory. The coroner, who did a wonderful job of being as skeezy and creepy as possible, was fantastic in being a believable necrophiliac. Either way, Aftermath is pretty effective. Gotta say, Cerda is either really good at his use of sound without dialogue, or he just can't write for shit. It's simple, straightforward, and pretty disturbing. He sets a camera on the table to record his indiscretion, and when he's done, he sews her back up and takes her heart back to his house to feed to his dog. One of the men moves on to a woman who clearly strikes his fancy, and as he takes her apart piece by piece, removing most of her innards in the process, he gets aroused and does his sexual business with the corpse. The movie opens as he and a fellow worker are performing autopsies on two corpses, and Cerda makes the film sufficiently gory for their job. It follows the story of a morgue worker who is, lets say, a little too involved in his work. Entertaining, and the perfect length for the idea, Cerda definitely did a great job for an opening act and a first film.Īftermath, the second film in the self-contained trilogy, was also eye-opening. It's really hard to hit amazing in like 8 minutes, but it was really well done for what it was. And to be honest, for an opening film, it wasn't half bad. I was aware of the other two films, although admittedly very little about the third in the lineup, but I didn't even know this film existed. What was really interesting about this short to me was that I had literally never heard of it when I watched it. He wanders around the classroom, and eventually realizes, as things start back up again, that he actually died during class. The story is about a teenager who awakes from a nap in class to discover that the entire world around him is frozen in time. The production value was certainly limited, but the story was there, and, being a silent film, the dialogue was not the struggle that it can be for young and inexperienced directors. It's the same quality as a student film, but it really was quite entertaining. The Awakening was Ignacio "Nacho" Cerda's debut short, and its certainly a rough cut.
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